Sentences with phrase «of rewarding good teachers»

You have an interesting situation with a Democratic administration and a Democrat as secretary of education saying that [teachers unions] have to give and you have to have some way of rewarding good teachers.

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Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

They had all done so well in school and out of school activities the teachers wanted to reward them, how cool is that?

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

I wish teacher's (especially of the little ones) realized that the best reward they could give their students is some special time with them, and that it doesn't ever need to be about food.

Students also shared stories of great teachers who helped them succeed and who needed to be retained and rewarded, as well as ineffective teachers who have been failing students for years.

«Teacher retention and a reward systems that values staff rather than penalising them are key to the long term and sustainable success of a good education system and more Trusts, as well the Secretary of State, should take note of the approach introduced at TSAT schools.»

Questions Abound for New Program that Rewards Teachers Based on SAT and ACT Scores Tampa Bay Times, 6/27/15 «Many supporters point to Finland and Singapore for examples of where the «best and brightest» approach works.

This year we are implementing a new performance - management framework for teachers that will provide them with comprehensive data on areas of strength and areas that need development, as well as reward high - performing teachers with bonuses as large as $ 14,000.

Yet increasing numbers of skilled and experienced teachers are leaving the profession and highly qualified graduates are opting for jobs in other occupations which better recognise and reward their talents.

Cafes and shops also offer well - deserved refreshments for teachers and helpers, and souvenirs for all to remind them of what we hope they will long remember as a happy and rewarding trip.

A comprehensive system of merit pay could reward the best teachers and encourage the least - effective teachers to leave the profession.

The book makes three recommendations: a much smaller, selective, intellectually engaged, and better compensated teaching force supported by technology; an open, transparent, and accountable system of preparation and professional development that drives out inferior providers and rewards success; and increased responsibility for teacher development in the hands of principals, who may be the strongest determinant of teacher quality on the job.

Approved by the district's board of education last week, the plan is expected to put millions more dollars into rewards for teachers whose students show better - than - average improvement compared with similar groups of students.

It is a pleasure to give the profession its due and to be reminded of a bit of universal wisdom that teachers know better than most: working for the greatest good often demands the greatest effort — and it is often rewarded with equal satisfaction.

After two days of writing out massive numbers of tickets, the teacher told Krugly that the students» behavior had not yet improved drastically, but she was feeling better because now she was stopping instruction to do something positive — reward kids who were not chatting.

One needs to consider the impact of restrictive collective bargaining agreements that prevent rewarding good teachers and removing ineffective ones, intrusive court interventions, and useless teacher certification laws.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

Illustrations by James Yang Offering financial incentives to improve education — providing money rewards to students, teachers, schools, or districts as a way to motivate them to try harder and do better — is one of the hottest topics in education today.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

Teachers can celebrate and reward good learning by recognizing the «best mistake of the day,» «best question of the day,» and good group work.

Teachers just need to fill in the «IOU» circle with the reward being given (we use VIVOs and just fill in IOU 10 Vivos, but this could easily be house points, commendations etc.) A tangible method of rewarding your students - they do something good, they something immediately.

Rewarding the best teachers can help them set the standard — or even raise the bar — of staff performance.

All of the existing incentives, therefore, run counter to any effort to reward good teaching and get good teachers where we most need them.

Despite some success in rewarding teachers for producing better student outcomes, the career ladder was a target of the same criticisms that challenge virtually all attempts to tinker with systems of teachers» compensation.

These include reducing licensure barriers, improving the quality of professional development and teacher preparation, luring and retaining good teachers by recognizing and rewarding them, and so forth.

Critics of merit pay argue that the falloff in such programs was due to the fundamental technical difficulties of accurately identifying effective teachers and rewarding good teaching practices.

Despite widespread pessimism among educators about whether merit pay systems can effectively reward good teachers, most of the limited empirical evidence has been surprisingly positive.

By paying teachers according to their credentials and the number of years they have been on the payroll rather than how well their students perform, the rewards go to the credentialed careerist, not necessarily to the meritorious teacher.

She negotiated a groundbreaking teacher's contract to help reward the best teachers while getting rid of the worst.

Flying under the radar will be the reform choices of the few creative school boards that are willing to make changes in order to reward and retain their best teachers and find ways to devote more money to the classroom.

Principal Investigator of Start Well, Dr Gavin Hazel, said early career teachers have many positive and rewarding experiences as part of starting their career but are challenged in managing their workload and getting the right support.

A similar disparity exists between the difficulty of teaching well and doing good education research, on the one hand, and, on the other, the low prestige and modest rewards of teachers and education researchers and the schools of education that prepare them both.

Worse, the board actually rewards teachers for being good at the opposite of what most parents think teachers should excel at.

As every proud parent and teacher knows, good qualifications remain the best guarantee of a bright future: the ticket to a top university or apprenticeship, and the key to a successful and rewarding career.

One of the most path - breaking attempts to reward teacher performance, and thus attract and retain the best and brightest for our kids, is the DC Impact system, which was the culmination of a tough but brilliant consensus between union and DC leadership.

The cry is for good teachers to be rewarded and bad teachers to be tossed out of classrooms, based on student achievement assessed by scores on standardized tests.

But if we wish to move to a point where good teachers will be rewarded for excellence and all teachers will be held accountable for their performance, it is far from clear that the current stock of principals will be adequate.

Read about four teachers» ways of rewarding students» good behavior and motivation.

So there is good reason to fear that principals in public schools, if given discretion to reward teachers as they please, will base their decisions on personal relationships rather than on the results of value - added assessments.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

The validity of the scale depends on the teachers» shared understanding of what good looks like matching the same set of skills rewarded by the exam board markers.

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones.

D.C. schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said in an interview that the study validates IMPACT's theory of action, which was to reward the best teachers, give assistance to struggling ones, and dismiss those not able to perform.

To improve student performance, he said, schools need an effective teacher evaluation system and need to be able to get rid of the worst teachers and to reward the best ones.

He says the separation of teachers from test data is a major obstacle to the administration's goal of financially rewarding the best teachers.