Sentences with phrase «of teachers as»

No Correlation Between School District Size And Percentage Of Teachers January 29, 2016 by Brett Kittredge After reviewing the number of teachers as a percentage of the staff at public schools, we noted a direct correlation between school district achievement and the percentage of teachers they employ.

You might not think of teachers as players in our growing «gig economy.»

The union representing Ireland's secondary - school teachers reacted with a statement saying that a major strength of the Irish education system has been students» perception of their teachers as «an advocate in terms of nationally certified examinations rather than as a judge.»

Society needs to be as concerned with the education of our teachers as we are with the education of our students.

Several recent studies have attempted to document the lives of teachers as they confront the challenges of leadership.

Thus, it might reduce expectations of teachers as well as learners in terms of what can be achieved.

The concept of teachers as primarily responsible for content distribution is a dated one, but even seeking to «engage» students misses the calling of teaching.

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

The seminar and Teacher Learning Community approach tends towards a view of teachers as independent, informed professionals, who are very capable of making sensible enquiries and considered decisions.

You've said, `... what is currently practised as leadership is not necessarily what will appeal to the next generation of teachers as they make decisions about whether to lead or not.»

The imposed, all teachers are the same, instruction sessions suggest a view of teachers as technicians, there to carry out instructions without question or discussion.

Just as we ask students to develop the skills for grappling with ill - defined problems, we need to ask the same of teachers as they create these challenges.

In the early days of face - to - face professional development, we thought of teachers as the professional communicators.

To construct this figure, we first define the top 5 percent of teachers as «high VA» and the bottom 5 percent as «low VA.» Figure 1 displays average test scores for cohorts of students in the years before and after a high - VA teacher arrives.

Giant mobs of yelling protesters and blogs filled with tirades may increase the intimidation politicians feel, but it seriously undermines the image of teachers as an extension of our family.

Greater emphasis and attention — by the board, by schools and school districts, and by reformers — to structuring, encouraging, and supporting the leadership roles that NBCTs can and should play could maximize the influence of these teachers as coaches, mentors, and leaders for other teachers.

The article really provides good for thought - as a head of the school I am trying all that is possible to ensure well - being of the Teachers as student achievement is dependent on it, strategies like talent clubs, gettogethers pdp, celebrations, appreciation, despite all this I feel something is lacking, I am not 100 percent satisfied with the kind of work from the teachers as well as the students.

I work with groups of teachers as well as administrators to set up systems of shared leadership.»

It's a dilemma facing a growing number of teachers as they tackle the subject of global warming in the classroom: How do you make students understand the urgency of the issue without paralyzing them with fear?

, but we also have to make a real dent on the history of teacher preparation, in the sense of its focus on one side of that equation — its focus on the academic, textbook preparation of teachers as opposed to the clinical practice.

Overall, people are quite pleased with the quality of teachers in their local school, but the public sees 15 percent of teachers as unsatisfactory, and even teachers believe 11 percent are ineffective.

So, there's a mountain of paperwork, or compliance requirements, or filling out forms; there's no question that this is seen as the major distraction for principals at least but I'd suspect also for a considerable number of teachers as well.

The report also says there is a surplus of teachers as «evidenced by the substantial number of (mainly primary) teachers who are on standby for positions in metropolitan areas».

Orchard and Winch believe the newly implicated school - led routes is backed by the idea of teachers as «craft worker», learning their profession by working with masters rather than «professionals» who engage with the theory and findings of education research, than mere intuition.

Unlike Ms. Maddox, the voters of Arkansas do not see the testing of teachers as an empty gesture.

Districts rated 99 percent of teachers as «satisfactory» and ignored performance altogether when making decisions about recruitment, professional development, promotion, pay, or dismissal.

On average, respondents rate 15 % of teachers as unsatisfactory.

Creating an occupation built on the assumption of teachers as mind workers is the most important education policy frontier facing us.

[PLEASE NOTE: An earlier version of this article mistakenly referred to the American Federation of Teachers as the Teachers Federation of America.]

Similarly, it seems tempting to use observations of teachers as a key data - gathering technique to inform professional development plans.

The REC has recently reported that the UK faces an ever increasing shortage of teachers as many choose to leave the sector and it is failing to attract the quantity and calibre of candidates that it needs to fill vacancies.

He is reported as saying that he acted only because «he believes they [his findings] should serve as a check on a policy of mass dismissals of teachers as a way to improve districts.

Student Council leaders described some of their teachers as boring and said they had been told to «shut - up.»

In the Hollywood version, a successful petition requires not only a majority of parents, but a majority of teachers as well.

This training of teachers as assessors for the process is also helping to build a different culture of learning, based on the statewide conversation about what constitutes good teaching.

This approach to professional learning, developed in collaboration with academic partners from Western Sydney University (WSU), has built a strong culture of teachers as «practitioner - researchers» at a whole school level.

Nationwide, school administrators identify only a tiny fraction of their teachers as ineffective, despite major evaluation - reform efforts by state and federal governments.

At the end of the project participants produced an academic journal article which was published as the first volume of Teachers as Practitioner Research Journal.

So, the interplay has been drilled into all of our teachers as part of their design training, and they actively understand that now.

Whereas even Florida's much - vaunted teacher - evaluation system rated 98 percent of teachers as effective or highly effective, the most recent results from the New Mexico system rated only 71 percent of teachers effective or better.

The same folks who gave us a system that ranked 99 % of teachers as effective and which left teachers with no objective defense against politics at the school - leader level.

But there is room for improvement on its standards, which have not been rated by the American Federation of Teachers as clear, specific, and grounded in content for English above the elementary level or for social studies at any grade span.

Evans, so stiff as Captain America, gets to exercise a very dry sense of humour (and since he's probably under Marvel contract not to lose his muscles, looks good enough to be described by one of the teachers as «the quiet, damaged, hot guy»).

Please try our variety of teachers as they all have their own style of teaching hatha yoga.

Avella, who received 53.17 percent of the turnout, or 25,864 votes, said he has not heard from Padavan, who got 22,781 votes, since the election, which Avella said he won in part because of support from the United Federation of Teachers as well as an effective campaign operation that included knocking on 7,000 doors.

The de Blasio administration is politically linked to influential teachers unions that only grudgingly agreed to the current evaluation system, which rates almost 100 percent of teachers as «effective.»

This recommendation sets forth the rights and responsibilities of teachers as well as international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, teaching and learning conditions.

A greater error may be that he lost the support of teachers as a profession.

He thought of the old order of teachers as each a «Peter» by gnostic faith and as compositely embodying the teaching authority of the Church.

One of my teachers as a graduate student at Harvard had been the brilliant psychologist Troland, who happened to be a psychicalist, influenced by a founder of his science, Fechner.