Sentences with phrase «much difference teacher»

We now have a substantial number of studies that indicate clearly how much difference teacher effectiveness makes to student outcomes.

Indigenous students told us how much difference teachers can make in their lives and their engagement in education.

Not exact matches

I have noticed a qualitative difference between Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) students who have been trained on the job, and those who've been based at a university for their training, who tend to have much better preparation in the relevant theories and teaching strategies.

It seems like it would be a much better use of resources if we stopped conducting research to prove the obvious — that teacher quality makes a difference — and instead use those resources to ensure teacher quality by training our teachers better!

And there are large differences in teacher retention rates between Colorado districts, meaning some have much higher turnover rates than others.

Hattie also also criticises performance pay models in the report, saying that it is «difficult to find a performance - pay model that has made much, if any, difference to student learning» and that they often cause higher stress levels for teachers, which can cause them to lose enthusiasm.

Previous studies of teacher benefits have essentially stopped here, concluding that there is not much difference in benefits between teachers and nonteachers.

This is because no amount of getting standards «right» will make much difference when states and districts are calling for teachers to spend their time raising scores on tests that do not match the standards anyway.

There are other factors that make a difference to student wellbeing and much comes down to teachers, parents and schools.

No amount of getting standards «right» will make much difference when states and districts are calling for teachers to raise scores on tests that do not match the standards anyway.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Simple common sense would dictate that the effectiveness of different teachers or schools should have as least as much to do with differences in what is being taught as who is doing the teaching, or under whose roof and which assessment regime.

«They understand that to whom much is given, much is required and they are making — individually and collectively — a deep and enduring difference in the lives of students, teachers, administrators, and organizations through their educational leadership.

Nor has the compensation of school principals much improved; indeed, the annual average salary difference in 2011 — 12 between what veteran high - school teachers (eleven to twenty years) and their principals get paid was roughly $ 40,000.

If teachers are not methodical, it doesn't make much of a difference — kids will get support elsewhere,» she says.

If a school leader balances the teaching talent on each team so that there are no discernable differences between teams at different grade levels, then parents don't worry so much about «poor» teachers, because they know that there will be strong and less - strong teachers on every team that their child could be on.

«There is so much difference between how students think and how teachers think,» offered a female student in Florida.

It's true that Begle (1972) found that the number of mathematics courses taken by a teacher stopped making much of a difference at a certain point.

As Stern Strom explains, after so many years, «we've been able to demonstrate what we said we were doing, in a full way,» in part because there's a much better understanding of the complex issues Facing History explores with students and teachers — issues like racism, prejudice, hatred, difference, and anti-Semitism.

But it won't see much difference in student learning, experts say, unless its teachers know how to use the digital content in their classrooms.

The differences between good and bad teachers from the same program are much larger than the average differences between one program and another.

True to Villanueva Beard's commitment to recognizing the cultural differences across the many regions in which TFA places corps members, the Mississippi Delta will become a hub for training TFA teachers headed to rural areas, where the demand for first - year teachers is much higher than in many cities, and where corps members will encounter a different type of poverty.

There is suggestive information in the fact that there is not very much difference in average effectiveness by teachers» routes into their careers (certified vs. non-certified).

It's all well and good when classrooms finally get «wired,» but how much difference can it make if teachers don't know what to do next?

While there is disagreement about how much economic inequality exists in the United States, about 45 percent of teachers and nonteachers believe the government ought to act to reduce income differences.

JOHN WHITE: And when you look at the difference between the average of the prediction and the average of the result, that's how much impact the teacher had.

Although wide variation in teacher effectiveness is well established, much less is known about differences in teacher improvement over time.

As for Mr. Sereda at the Thames Valley school board, he doesn't expect the provincial cuts to the education faculties to make much difference to the glut of new teachers that he faces every spring.

While a fair amount of evidence suggests that value - added measures adequately adjust for differences in the background characteristics of students in each teacher's classroom — much better than do most other measures — value - added measures are imprecise.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

If about 85 percent of teachers get something extra, «it's hard to give very much money to anybody, so it's hard for it to really make much of a difference,» he said.

The report also helped better distinguish the difference between data literacy and assessment literacy — that is, while both speak to the use of data to drive student learning, it's important to realize that the data available to teachers goes beyond that garnered from assessment alone, to include attendance data, peer observations, and formative assessment (which as we know gets lumped into the assessment space, but is much more than that).

Notably, black students did not seem to benefit much more from having more than one black teacher in grades 3 - 5 as compared to having just one — even a single teacher of the same race seemed to make a big difference.

A trivial difference can appear much larger than it actually is, because, like the marathoners, many teachers are «crossing the finish line» at about the same time.

Small differences in the estimated effects of teachers on their students» achievement can appear to be much larger, because most teachers are about equally successful with the assortment of students they teach in a given year, regardless of whether those students begin the year as low - achievers or high - achievers.

The statistics are amazing and so empowering for a teacher to know you can make so much more of a difference in a student's life.

We now have a much greater understanding of how schools can make a difference, and, although there are still too many young people failing to achieve their potential, by underpinning our national system of schools with the values and the five key points outlined in this report, we believe both the learning of pupils and the professional development of teachers will benefit greatly.»

New Teacher Committee co-chairs Janick and Orange teacher Katie McDonald introduced a panel of new teachers who shared their own experiences making a difference and getting involved with their union.Fourth year Bolton teacher Tom DiMauro said he didn't have much first - hand knowledge of unions before he started teaching, and his local president invited him to get involved with his local Association aTeacher Committee co-chairs Janick and Orange teacher Katie McDonald introduced a panel of new teachers who shared their own experiences making a difference and getting involved with their union.Fourth year Bolton teacher Tom DiMauro said he didn't have much first - hand knowledge of unions before he started teaching, and his local president invited him to get involved with his local Association ateacher Katie McDonald introduced a panel of new teachers who shared their own experiences making a difference and getting involved with their union.Fourth year Bolton teacher Tom DiMauro said he didn't have much first - hand knowledge of unions before he started teaching, and his local president invited him to get involved with his local Association ateacher Tom DiMauro said he didn't have much first - hand knowledge of unions before he started teaching, and his local president invited him to get involved with his local Association and CEA.

But a loophole allows districts to exclude from that comparability calculation variations in teacher salaries, which account for much of the spending differences among schools.

Researchers found no difference in student test scores even after teachers spent as much as 60 hours in training.

So we would be inclined not to place much emphasis on the difference between the two point estimates of two such teachers.

We demonstrate that much of the inequity in teacher value added in Washington state is due to differences across different districts, so studies that only investigate inequities within districts likely understate the overall inequity in the distribution of teacher effectiveness because they miss one of the primary sources of this inequity.

This approach reduces how much money states need to pay in salaries and provides teachers with the opportunity to make up, and maybe even exceed, the difference later through the pension fund.

He showed a chart that that suggested the net difference between an effective teacher and an ineffective teacher can mean as much as 7.6 months of learning within an academic year.

Simon Burgess — a first rate economist at the University of Bristol — pointed out that the difference between having a terrible teacher (bottom 5 %) and a great one (top 5 %) can be as much as one GCSE grade (these estimates for the effects of teacher quality are consistent with other estimates from other countries).

But with black students, boys in particular, there were big differences — the white teachers had much lower expectations than black teachers for how far the black students would go in school.