Sentences with phrase «of teacher absence»

Schools spend more on the salary and benefits of teachers than any category of expenditure, so it's not surprising that the financial costs of teacher absence are high.

With these and other findings, this report seeks to draw attention to the too long - neglected subject of teacher absence.

Encourage local policymakers to «right - size» leave privileges and initiate incentive policies designed to reduce levels of teacher absence.

Writing for Education Week, Sarah D. Sparks uncovers the troubling issue of teacher absence: More than 6.5 million students in 2013 - 14 attended a school where at least half of teachers missed 10 days of school or more, according to the most recent estimate from the U.S. Department of Education.

The costs of teacher absence, both in financial and academic terms, can no longer be borne in silence.

This report uses the Civil Rights Data Collection dataset released in early 2012 to raise questions and drive debate about the subject of teacher absence.

As employers, school districts must accommodate some level of teacher absence with a combination of policies and management tools.

In this Education Week webinar, Raegan T. Miller of the Center for American Progress will discuss the implications of teacher absences, the role of the substitute teacher, and the innovative strategies some schools and districts are using to ensure that students keep learning when the teacher's absent.

Madison schools have been closed because of teacher absences since last Wednesday, but district officials and teacher union officials say teachers will return to work Tuesday.

Half of teacher absences were due to sickness, a fifth were due to teacher training and development and 10 % were because of teachers attending meetings.

In fact, it is well - documented that these averages are not representative of the bulk of teachers, as 16 percent of teachers account for almost one - third of teacher absences.

It is also important that you meet and begin to build relationships with key people around the school such as the school secretary, the library media specialist, the janitorial staff and the individual in charge of teacher absences.

Using detailed data from North Carolina, this paper examines the frequency, incidence, and consequences of teacher absences in public schools, as well as the impact of a policy designed to reduce absences.

The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low - income than high - income students.

Anticipating a high number of teacher absences on May 16th, the following North Carolina school systems have opted to close for the day: Wake County Schools Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools Nash - Rocky Mount Schools Guilford County Schools Mooresville Graded School District Orange County Schools Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Durham Public Schools Asheville City Schools Iredell - Statesville Schools Cabarrus County Schools Pitt County Schools Asheboro City Schools Johnston County Schools New Hanover County Schools Winston - Salem Forsyth Schools Kannapolis City Schools

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Its legacy may well be the formation of the well - formed Catholic teachers whose absence James Arthur notes; and its presence may also provide not just inspiration but also a model for teacher training elsewhere in the UK.

And in 1974's The Courage to Divorce, social workers Susan Gettleman and Janet Markowitz argued that boys need not be harmed by the absence of their fathers: «When fathers are not available, friends, relatives, teachers and counselors can provide ample opportunity for youngsters to model themselves after a like - sexed adult.»

Master rosters are printed for each homeroom (listing name / grade / barcode), and over the bar code it has a space for day of the week; the teacher checks the box if the student takes the meal, puts an «A» in blank for an absence, and leaves it blank to indicate refusal.

National Union of Teachers (NUT) general secretary Steve Sinnott also praised the results, which come just days after the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned of an absence of basic numeracy and literacy skills among school leavers.

Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them based on their uniqueness.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

The ingenuity of an ICT teacher who, in the absence of a computer, draws the modern communication device on a...

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

I would write up recipes that the teacher could prepare in my absence and make sure that the cupboards were stocked with plenty of healthy ingredients.

End of the school year means that teacher tired is EVER PRESENT, and when I got home... it took all the energy I had to crawl into bed (hence the absence of a Friday Favorites post even though last week was a great one!).

After a four year absence that has seen just a single episode of Californication added to his resume, Kasdan returns to the cinema with black comedy Bad Teacher.

I did wish that Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith — who return as the rival housemasters Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall — had more to do, but their absences are compensated for by Kenneth Branagh as a self - adoring teacher of defense against the dark arts, and Jason Isaacs as the viperous Lucius Malfoy, father of Draco.

Similarly, shortening Neville Longbottom's account of life at Hogwarts in Harry's absence cuts out crucial details about how those same teachers forced students to hurt each other, an illustration of how once - aberrant behaviors become normalized.

The point is not to be a bore or a fundamentalist, but to address the consequences of a complete absence of grammar in the training of an entire generation of teachers.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

The aim will be to create a practical guide for the effective professional learning of teachers that is currently so conspicuous for its absence.

Their teachers describe profound emotional reactions including anger, hostility, retribution (such as false accusations of teacher misconduct) and more subtle but equally disturbing behavioral changes of withdrawn participation and effort, depression, and more sick - day absences.

With increasing numbers of younger teachers entering the profession and in the absence of any case law, the question «Who is going to drive the school minibus in the future?»

In the absence of a more collaborative process, you can identify for yourself as the teacher / facilitator what the true essentials of your classroom are for you.

Towergate is the longest standing provider of staff absence insurance to schools and academies, providing cover for teachers and support staff who are unable to work due to sickness, accident, jury service or disciplinary suspension.

In fact, with reduced absences and greater teacher retention levels being a common by - product of well - being strategies, many schools can save money.

The inquiry will look into the quality of teaching, the impact of the subject on young people and teacher training for Holocaust education, as well as the absence of teaching regarding other genocides and the implementation of the recommendations made by the Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission.

For example, some studies have found that less - effective early - career teachers are more likely to exit than more - effective novice teachers, even in the absence of high - stakes evaluations.

Following the work on teacher absence, Muralidharan realized that low accountability — only one out of 3,000 schools reported firing a teacher for repeated absence — and the complete lack of differentiation between teachers on the basis of performance, were part of a systematic problem.

A new Fordham report finds that 28 % of teachers in traditional district schools miss more than 10 school days a year for sick or personal leave while teachers in charter schools have lower rates absences.

It is far from clear that teachers» unions can continue to function just fine in the absence of favorable state - level labor laws.

But today the absence of a common core is a critical handicap, particularly for the neediest kids, weakest teachers, and least advantaged schools.

Nearly half of teachers expect to have to deal with an increase in redundancies in the next two to three years and more than a third (37 % and 36 %) expect an increase in long - term sickness and repetitive short - term absences.

The news comes after the government has increased regulations over school leave, meaning head teachers can only be allowed to grant pupils a leave of absence in exceptional circumstances».

In the absence of full - time virtual schools, teachers unions and other opponents use their resources to attack blended - learning charters, even though the latter do not differ in legal structure, brick - and - mortar presence, or enrollment practices from other charter schools.

In the absence of teacher - directed lessons at the end of the year, children enjoy no improvement in comprehension — even when they receive the books.

And since each of those teachers has multiple classes, in addition to the five classes that are directly affected by that teacher's absence, another dozen or so could be indirectly affected.

To see why this matters, imagine a school day with five periods: If no sub is hired, as many as four teachers could theoretically lose their planning periods because of one teacher's absence.

When all teacher absences are included, the number of wasted periods is more like 2.5 billion.

Teachers certainly are exposed to all manner of classroom germs, but there's also evidence that a lot of absences are discretionary.