Sentences with phrase «more teacher involvement»

The hope is that school - based management can result in more teacher involvement, better decisions regarding student needs and school goals, a better atmosphere in the school, parent involvement in curriculum matters, greater flexibility in using the national curriculum, and a closer link between internal school assessment and instructional decisions.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

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«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

Teachers who are engaged in service - learning tend to be more positive about the work they do, and we also see a higher level of parental involvement, which is key to academic achievement.»

Teachers reported having more positive attitudes about arts integration and about teacher collaboration, and parent and community involvement increased.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

Additionally, schools should identify a provider who understands that residentials are more effective when there is active teacher and student involvement in their planning and delivery.

«Parent involvement will probably make more difference than anything else we could ever do to help our children learn,» says Bonnie McReynolds, the teacher behind the program.

Other policies include introducing free school meals for all primary school children; ending the public sector pay cap, which affects teachers; giving teachers «more direct involvement» in the curriculum; and extending school - based counselling to all schools.

Maran offers a five - point plan focused on desegregation, better pay for teachers, and more community and family involvement.

It happens only if schools, ideally with heavy involvement from teachers themselves, redesign roles and schedules to capitalize on digital instruction's most potent value: the power to free great teachers» time to help more students and to help other teachers excel.

Federal involvement also carries political risks for private school choice, as the Obama administration learned through its efforts to promote Common Core standards and more robust teacher evaluation systems.

Among the entries, we find Bambino musing about the impact of charter schools; the need in schools for more business partnerships and community involvement; the «us and them» divide between teachers and parents; the validity of the school science fair; and the need for more time to plan and reflect.

Teachers who used RC practices and / or resources reported collaborating more, valuing collaboration to a higher degree, and perceiving greater involvement in school decision - making, controlling for whether they taught at a RC school.

Lack of parental involvement is more likely to be seen as a serious problem by public school teachers.

Some of the objectives of this new platform are: more versatility and flexibility, more user - friendliness, more intuitiveness, more stability, decompartmentalisation of courses and other activity areas, creation of fully - fledged training ecosystems composed of various resources, collaborative activities, involvement of students who themselves become the players and creators of resources alongside the teachers, connection with administrative applications of user organizations, deployment of a global network of interconnected platforms, the embracing of lifelong learning.

Additionally, look at the monies currently being stolen from cities and states by the reformers and their creed of ever more testing, corporate involvement in teacher evaluation, etc..

In particular, principals in more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvement.

In other words, a more professionalized and influential group of teachers may seek to increase the resources available to improve student achievement (including parental involvement and influence).

If it is the case that professionalized teachers are more likely to seek parental and community involvement, then the dynamic in education resembles a current movement within the medical profession, where many practitioners now seek to involve patients as partners in making complex decisions about health care.

The new board members campaigned together under the Caucus for Change banner, representing teachers and parents in the district and demanding more community involvement in the district's decision - making process.

When appropriate, you also can make involvement in the initiative or in using the technology voluntary at fi rst, so teachers, especially those who may be more technology - reluctant, can ease into using the technology at their own pace.

The Kent School District has created a web site dedicated to its laptop initiative, including a robust section on the policies, infrastructure, technical specifications, student and teacher training, family involvement, and more.

National Parental Involvement Day, on Nov. 21, 2013, highlighted a new partnership that aims to provide low - income families with free or discounted Internet access, computers, and training to enable parents to communicate more effectively with their children's teachers and schools.

Involving teachers in decisions about their work must be valued in its own right, as must giving parents and other community members more involvement in their schools.

Summary: There are ways to engage students in decision - making including providing feedback on learning experiences, granting more choice in curriculum, making student involvement in school governance more than a symbolic gesture, including students on interview panels for teachers, and asking for suggestions on school - wide needs, problems and challenges.

The newly invigorated group ran an array of parent involvement activities, hosted four wildly popular «Fun Blast» events for students, organized welcome overnights for 6th graders, sponsored overnight field trips, created an inspiring career day for 8th graders, helped build an outdoor recreation center for the school, created a new grade parent volunteer program, ran monthly teacher appreciation activities, relaunched a program to curb bullying and aggression, and lots more.

• Learn more about the importance of parent involvement from the California Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and from the Ed Source report, «The Power of Parents» (PDF).

We need more dedicated teachers and more serious commitment to parent involvement from school administrators.

More districts sending teachers into students» homes (December 13, 2011) Education Week wrote about teacher home - visits, a parental involvement strategy supported by the NEA Priority Schools Campaign.

Elected officials and advocates routinely cite the United States» mediocre standing, and what they know of the educational practices of high - performing nations, to gird their arguments for their favored changes to American education — from encouraging greater parental involvement to revamping school curricula and standards to paying teachers more.

As much as I want to believe that my informal arrangement at my charter school was not the best way to go, without the formalized union involvement, as teachers, we had more opportunities to voice our concerns and advocate for ourselves directly.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Rather than silencing student voice, Meaningful Student Involvement can amplify the voices of the silenced; more so, this approach can engage these students as partners with the very teachers who used to fail them.

«We needed a tool that could help change behavior toward reading activities, that would facilitate more parent involvement, and at the same time would not add to a teacher's workload.

Furthermore, education can't have a simple win / loss record due to its complexity: it should include academic measures, attendance and turnover rates of students and teachers, community involvement, and more.

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beymore positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beymore active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beymore personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyMore opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

Project Appleseed's You Tube channel has videos that demonstrate the research findings regarding parent involvement and provides practical strategies for how to help teachers influence more parents to be involved in their child's education.

We call on President Obama and other Democrats to reject these policies and join parents and education experts in support of a more positive set of changes that includes small classes, a well - rounded curriculum, more meaningful parent involvement and greater investment in teachers and families.

Thanks in large part to West Ada's high - profile involvement with the League of Innovative Schools over more than three years, Ms. Clark was invited to participate on a panel about empowering teachers when more than 100 superintendents met at the White House late last year.

Adequate measurement should include a mixture of proper school funding, workable class sizes, more teacher training, respectable teacher pay, more parental involvement, broad - based teacher evaluations, etc..

The most frequent effect was for kindergarten teachers, who used assessments less frequently than teachers in higher grades, and who also had more positive perceptions of the impact of assessment on parents» involvement and administrators» knowledge and use.

While many factors — including student demographics, parental involvement, teacher quality, and government policy — influence educational outcomes, research generally finds that students perform better when taught by more experienced teachers and that increased teacher turnover can harm student performance.8 High levels of turnover can also disrupt schools.

If the studies so far are right (and yes, there's need for more), the majority of charter schools perform at or less than parity with public schools, even with more parental involvement and supposedly more / better teachers and programs.

Latino parents» educational engagement tends to take place in the home more than at school, making their involvement invisible to teachers.

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

Some researchers have attempted to increase the validity of self - report data by measuring parent involvement from more than one source (parent, teachers, students).

Summary: There are ways to engage students in decision - making including providing feedback on learning experiences, granting more choice in curriculum, making student involvement in school governance more than a symbolic gesture, including students on interview panels for teachers, and asking for suggestions on school - wide needs, problems and challenges.

The benefits of family - school - community partnerships are many: higher teacher morale, more parent involvement, and greater student success are only a few.

Teachers who used RC practices and / or resources reported collaborating more, valuing collaboration to a higher degree, and perceiving greater involvement in school decision - making, controlling for whether they taught at a RC school.