Sentences with phrase «of teacher productivity»

Mounting pressure in the policy arena to improve teacher productivity either by improving signals that predict teacher performance or through creating incentive contracts based on performance — has spurred two related questions: Are there important determinants of teacher productivity that are not captured by teacher credentials but that can be measured by subjective assessments?

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«Take, for instance, the undervaluation of female - dominated jobs like school teachers, who affect the long - term productivity of children as they grow up and become workers themselves,» Bahn tells Fortune.

Now, as the owner of an editing business, which requires that I wear more — and more varied — hats (editor, supervisor, customer service rep, marketer, writer, teacher, bookkeeper), it is more critical than ever for me to guard my time carefully to maintain my productivity.

Wieman told the committee that «powerful, vested interests» on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach science and train future science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher priority on research productivity than on student learning.

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Yet, economist Henry Levin of Columbia's Teachers College writes that test results «show only nominal statistical links to measures of worker productivity.»

In their research, Leslie Huling and Virginia Resta found: «If a bad hire costs a company nearly 2 times the employee's initial salary in recruitment and personnel costs as well as lost productivity, then each teacher who leaves the profession during the induction years likely costs taxpayers in excess of $ 50,000.»

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

Redefining these roles — and those of classroom teachers — provides great opportunities for increased productivity.

As well as this, sending homework electronically through email and shared intranet spaces has improved the productivity of both students and teachers; this is because students can deliver homework to teachers in a quicker time and teachers can spend less time marking physical copies of work.

Replacing the poorest performing 5 to 8 percent of teachers with an average teacher would, by my calculations, yield improved productivity and growth that amounts to trillions of dollars.

Some teachers provided more information than others, but the essentials of the student's productivity and accomplishments that week — including information about homework completion, test and project scores, major upcoming assignments, and classroom behavior — were related with consistent clarity.

Knee also misses an opportunity to address the elephant in the room that any education business must face: the impact of such companies on their customers or end users, including effects on student learning, teacher quality, school productivity, or district cost savings.

My own research suggests that replacing just 5 % to 8 % of the least effective teachers with an average teacher would noticeably boost the achievement of our current students and would pay off lavishly in the future, through their enhanced productivity and faster economic growth.

«I do not maintain equipment; I instruct teachers and other school staff in the use of technology for personal productivity and in how to integrate technology into their curricula.

Chetty et al.'s evidence shows that bad teachers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income and productivity each year that they remain in the classroom.

The only way to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is to help excellent teachers increase their productivity: swap portions of excellent teachers» time with digital instruction so they can teach more classes with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks to other adults; use digital tools to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other teachers; and let the willing have more students to nurture under their strong wings.

Jacob infers from these results that «many of the initial nonrenewal decisions were not idiosyncratic, stemming from a particularly bad match... but reflected a concern with the teacher's general productivity.»

Given that 55 % of K - 12 spending funds teacher salaries and benefits, you can't cut costs without boosting the productivity of good teachers — which requires increasing class size.

However, suppose that the general knowledge transmitted by schoolteachers, such as reading or arithmetic, remains largely unchanged and that the productivity of teachers remains constant as a result.

Thus, jettisoning DB pensions, as the authors recommend, can be expected to cause increased turnover and attrition of our most - effective teachers, hurting productivity and quality, in other words, exactly the wrong solution for our schools.

However, until schools develop an appropriate digital school ecosystem, adopt a culture that empowers the teachers, students and parents, and support all that take a lead role in the use of the digital in teaching, they won't be able to take advantage of those opportunities and continually enhance their productivity.

In a 2001 study, Robert Strauss and William Vogt found that the productivity of teachers is driven primarily by their knowledge of subject matter rather than of pedagogical techniques.

Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren find no relationship between teachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher steachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher sTeachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher steachers from the city by offering higher salaries.

By this logic, the productivity of elementary - school teachers has remained fairly constant.

Allowing teachers to shine in their passions goes a long way in building teacher productivity and ensuring retention of valued staff, Schlie told Education World.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

Laing states that a layout which focuses student attention and interest can have a huge impact on productivity: «Innova has worked on many refurbishments, and factors such as re-thinking desk configurations, teacher positioning and the provision of storage can all have a positive effect on pupil behaviour.

At the heart of all the best productivity apps for head teachers lies a solution to a common problem: Time.

The productivity of Australian workers and the longer - term economic growth of the nation depend upon improvements in teacher quality and teacher effectiveness.

Following the introduction of Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition for teachers, St Peter's Girls» School is looking forward, hoping to extend the same deployment for its growing number of student Mac users, who also require access to Windows - based productivity applications.

Challenging student behaviours are affecting the health, productivity and welfare of Australian teachers as well as the students themselves, a leading special education academic says.

Teachers» salaries today are based on credentials and years of experience, factors that are at best weakly related to productivity.

This would not just represent a better use of public money, but have real implications for pupil attainment and teacher productivity.

If we contemplate asking 5 to 10 percent of teachers to find a job at which they are more effective so they can be replaced by teachers of average productivity, states and school districts would have to change their employment practices.

Kuepa wants to contribute, through the introduction of blended learning, to improve performance, leverage teacher capacities and boost productivity and competitiveness among young workers in Latin America.

CAT students collaborated on a wide variety of innovative solutions that continue to improve the school's operational efficiency and enhance student and teacher productivity.

She is involved in several research projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.

Teacher Retirement Benefits: Defining a More Active Role for SEAs and Their Chiefs In this essay from The SEA of the Future Volume 2, Marguerite Roza and Michael Podgursky draw on their research on productivity and pensions to look in depth at the startling long - term costs of educator pension systems...

The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals, teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.

The productivity picture is made worse by the resistance of schools to augment teachers» efforts with new instructional technologies.

The productivity camp has more faith in pedestrian notions of essential knowledge and the teacher's central role.

In short, the education research community needs to prime the pump of evidence - based education with a supply of research findings that are of immediate relevance to workaday decision - making, e.g., recruiting tools that enhance the effectiveness of the workforce; ways to increase the productivity of the central office; and differences in the impact of available curriculum materials for particular types of teachers and students.

iEngage Discover how to increase the level of active student engagement in your classroom with this one - day, interactive workshop that explores classroom iPad initiatives and teacher productivity tools.

Teacher Tools are a set of productivity tools that make it easy for educators to share free, educational and inspiring resources from PBS LearningMedia with their students in a way that engages students while teaching them 21st century skills.

With the increased productivity and efficiency afforded to our teachers through the use of technology, our teachers can spend more time teaching to our students» individual needs and aspirations.

Most of these teachers reported that they were applying their gained knowledge and skills by regularly using technology «to improve their efficiency and productivity, especially for tasks such as maintaining attendance, grades, data on students; creating instructional materials; and communicating with staff members and other colleagues» (Maryland State Department of Education, 2002, p. 2).

Although the teacher has obtained snacks for his students to increase their productivity in the afternoons which will likely have some impact on their classroom performance, he has not yet secured guided reading materials which are far more likely to «address key constraints of increased class performance.»

We study mid-career teachers for whom we observe an objective measure of productivity — value - added to student achievement — before, during, and after evaluation.