Sentences with phrase «of teacher job security»

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Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

«It indicates that our school security agents, our police officers, our teachers, are doing a better job of getting weapons before they can be used.»

Holiday camps and the outdoor pursuits industry are the only areas of employment which offer less job security than postdoctoral research, claimed David Triesman, general secretary of the Association of University Teachers (AUT).

Other characters include a meth - using teacher (Jillian Bell of «Workaholics») who dreams of making love to a student, an inefficient security guard (Kumail Nanjiani), a buttoned - down teacher with a dark side (an out of place Christina Hendricks) and a coach (Tracy Morgan) who buys skinny jeans in an effort to save his job.

In fact, by suppressing the supply of teachers, certification provides teachers with enhanced job security.

Roughly 9 percentage points, or about one - fifth, of the 52 percent compensation advantage R & B claim is due to their estimated value of greater teacher job security.

With these changes in selectivity, opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed to giving everyone what they want: for teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for students, excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.

But comprehensive assessments of teacher compensation — covering salaries, fringe benefits, and job security — are uncommon.

Of course, the latter survey doesn't indicate whether teachers are ambivalent because the unions aren't fighting hard enough against policy changes affecting job security or because they're fighting too hard to defend poor performers.

Anecdotal data also suggest that, even setting aside the enormous benefit of the job security that accompanies tenure, the fringe benefits of public school teachers compare favorably with those in the private sector.

Of course, things are much better for teachers today, what with much higher (if still mediocre) salaries, generous benefits, and over-the-top job security.

In a series of valuable reports, including several recently released, ERA found, for instance, that initial reforms led to the dismissal of thousands of teachers; NOLA teachers today report lower job satisfaction, less job security, and less autonomy; average teacher salaries are lower and there are fewer teachers per pupil; and the teaching force has grown less black, experienced, and local.

While we certainly see the strong benefit of offering job security for teaching - track faculty (and recognize that higher levels of job protections likely attracts more excellent teachers to the university), giving them de facto tenure would eliminate this important lever for department chairs, deans and provosts.

Their mission is to protect the jobs of teachers in the regular public schools, and real technological change — which outsources work to distant locations, allows students and money to leave, substitutes capital for labor, and in other ways disrupts the existing job structure — is a threat to the security and stability that the unions seek.

To the extent that teachers benefit from more generous pay and benefits, less - demanding work conditions, and higher job security, the unions will pursue those goals, even if achieving them comes at the expense of students.

The magnitude of these changes is particularly great considering that no elementary school on probation was actually reconstituted during this period and that the social promotion policy has no direct effects on teachers» pay or job security.

In a resounding victory for teachers unions, the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles overturned a judge's June 2014 ruling that the state's tenure and job - security rules violated the right of students to an equal education.

Put bluntly, why should a tenured classroom teacher go to the effort of altering her long - standing instructional protocols to adopt new technologies when her pay, professional status, and job security are only remotely related to improving her effectiveness or her clients» satisfaction?

While job security for teachers was traditionally pegged to years of experience, new laws are taking student test scores into consideration.

Okabe said the union disliked how the state's offer required teachers to «take a blind leap of faith» by agreeing to an evaluation system that has not been fully developed or defined, yet would determine future compensation and job security.

On tap for 2014: We'll look at how many of the top 25 percent of teachers who are currently tenured will give up their job security for the meager pay increases that come with 4 - year contracts.

Teachers benefit strongly from job security benefits, which are worth about an extra 1 percent of wages, rising to 8.6 percent when considering that extra job security protects a premium paid in terms of salaries and benefits.

The Vergara lawsuit is ultimately a very crude way of enacting policy change; the decision does not require, for example, any measures to compensate teachers for reductions in job security.

One of the central tensions for reformers when it comes to improving teacher quality is that on the one hand they believe teachers are fighting desperately for excessive job security but also, on the other hand, that you can substantially reduce that job security without making teaching significantly less attractive.

Lincove added that charter leaders worried about teachers not viewing it as a long term career should «think systematically about what kinds of long term retirement benefits and long - term job security might need to be offered to avoid this.»

In today's economic environment, when so many hard - working skilled people have lost jobs and job security, it's hard for the unions to continue to argue that tenure makes sense, when the results of our schools show that far too many teachers are not making the grade.

In the published presentation of results, the question about teacher tenure asks: «Do you support or oppose tenure for teachers, the practice of guaranteeing teachers lifetime job security after they have worked for a certain amount of time?»

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CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.

In California, a teacher can receive tenure after two years — no other profession provides that kind of job security.

The problem is, tenure does not guarantee teachers a job, does not offer any lifetime employment security, and, regardless of the implication of Time's question, does not just happen after a «certain amount of time.»

It reflects an emerging national consensus on the importance of studying teachers» work before giving job security or raises, said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation sTeacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation steacher evaluation systems.

GUTTENBERG BOARD OF EDUCATION JOB OPENINGS Teachers: Middle School Math Middle School Science Middle School Social Studies Part - Time Security (Salary - 29.75 hours a week, no benefits) Lunch Aides ($ 10...

She controversially tied the results to the job security and pay of teachers and principals, forging a system in which educators said they felt pressured to get results.

In places where the supply of teachers is already limited, districts may need to provide higher teacher salaries or improve working conditions to make up for the diminished job security that accompanies tenure reform.»

The financing plan also ends nearly five weeks of uncertainty surrounding the contract, widely regarded as a progressive breakthrough emphasizing teacher quality while diminishing seniority as a traditional determinant of job security and assignments.

In fact, a sense of job security (and not the bogus notion that you have a job for life; the knowledge that you can speak your mind and not fear for removal by your superiors and the knowledge that you will have due process if action is instituted against you) have been shown conclusively to be a significant factor in positively influencing teacher performance.

As a teacher with a master's degree in the field of education in Wyoming, you can have considerable job security and high demand — not to mention better compensation.

These moves come at a time when teacher satisfaction nationally is at its lowest point in more than two decades, according to the annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, with more of those in the profession saying they are considering leaving it or fear for the security of their jobs than at any recenteacher satisfaction nationally is at its lowest point in more than two decades, according to the annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, with more of those in the profession saying they are considering leaving it or fear for the security of their jobs than at any recenTeacher, with more of those in the profession saying they are considering leaving it or fear for the security of their jobs than at any recent time.

Experienced teachers who meet or exceed standards of teacher quality may also qualify for tenure, which provides an added measure of job security.

Among the bones of contention: The role of testing in evaluations, the strength of job security for teachers and the number of kids in a class.

Two of the top five reasons teachers leave charter schools are lack of administrator support and job security.

Chicago educators initiated the strike last week over disagreements related to compensation, teacher evaluations, job security, and the length of the school day.

This study concluded that voucher programs introduce risks, including: «increased school segregation; the loss of a common, secular educational experience; and the possibility that the flow of inexperienced young teachers filling the lower - paying jobs in private schools will dry up once the security and benefits offered to more experienced teachers in public schools disappear.»

When summer ends, many teachers will face a new reality: A number of states have passed new laws and policies that tie teachers» job security to how well their students do in class.

Over the last several years federal and state accountability legislation has come under attack from a duo of strange bedfellows: Tea Party / Trump - ish acolytes who wave the banner of local control and teacher union leaders who disdain objective measurements of student learning, at least when they're tied to teacher evaluations and job security.

Yes, teachers are evaluated — that's another form of accountability — but it's hard to take this form seriously when 97 percent of New York City educators are considered effective or highly effective, as reported on Monday, and life - long job security, barring some egregious act, is guaranteed after four years.

Teachers» unions would certainly argue yes: Job security could improve the quality of education teachers provide, for iTeachers» unions would certainly argue yes: Job security could improve the quality of education teachers provide, for iteachers provide, for instance.

D.C. teachers have to give up some of their job security and will be fired for poor performance.

The process of transition at Cohen also came under fire, with extensive questioning about how much job security high - performing teachers at Cohen actually have.