Sentences with phrase «of teachers based»

Well, at least now maybe they can get rid of teachers based on how well they perform, right?

Depending on which reform strategy wins, new changes may also be introduced that mandate the grading of teachers based on students» test scores instead of experience.

Jonah Edelman, its founder and the son of children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has raised millions of dollars in funds from the Gates and Walton Foundations, as well as many top business executives, and now pursues policies central to the corporate education agenda, including support of charter school expansion, the evaluation of teachers based on test scores and the elimination of their seniority protections.

This approach helped address perceptions and needs of teachers based on their technology PD experiences in practice.

Walker has proposed allowing for licensing of teachers based on having «real - life experience» and a bachelor's degree.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

The school system in the nation's capital is unique among large school districts for the complexity of its teacher - evaluation system, which scores the performance of teachers based on classroom observations, student test scores and other factors.

The evaluation of teachers based on the contribution they make to the learning of their students, value - added, is an increasingly popular but controversial education reform policy.

In Score to Soar, we discuss four types of teachers based on their performance levels and the support they may need:

DANIEL KORETZ: And there has been study after study that shows that rankings of teachers based on a single year's worth of kids, a single year of data, are just not stable.

This year, we took a stand on this point by subverting the evaluation of our teachers based on standardized tests.

[5] The largest bonus was substantial, $ 15,000 a year, for teachers whose performance was in the top five percent of teachers based on historical district data.

In a recent article (see «Valuing Teachers,» features, Summer 2011), Eric Hanushek argues in favor of dismissing the bottom 5 percent of teachers based on their VA scores.

After decades of relying on often - perfunctory classroom observations to assess teacher performance, districts from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles now evaluate many of their teachers based in part on VA measures and, in some cases, use these measures as a basis for differences in compensation.

Critics see the combination of program accreditation standards, revised by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in 2000; a growing curricular emphasis on «social justice» issues; and a left - leaning education professoriate as yielding a one - sided approach to teacher education and the certification of teachers based on ideology, rather than teaching skills or mastery of content knowledge.

On the schools, the teachers are angry, because he's underfunding and he's imposing these high - stakes tests and the evaluations of teacher based on that.

Seventy three percent of respondents said that the «ineffective» label assigned to some of their teachers was either not a very accurate or an inaccurate reflection of that teacher based on their observations and the performance of that teacher's students.

Not exact matches

If you start by opening PowerPoint and haphazardly typing bullet points, you're off to a rough start, says Adam Sigel, a Boston - based product manager at New York City - based streaming TV startup Aereo, and teacher of Skillshare's Slide Chi: Advanced PowerPoint Design / Workshop Class.

Bambinotes, a Palestine - based startup digitizing parent - teacher communication for pre schools, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed investment from VC firm Ibtikar Fund.

• Cinven agreed to sell CeramTec GmbH, a Germany - based manufacturer of high performance ceramics, to a BC Partners - led consortium including the Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan.

While students and teachers account for much of his business, Curran says his most surprising new customer base is pastors and rabbis.

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

• Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan acquired Atlantic Aqua Farms, a Canada - based grower and processor of mussels, from Encore Consumer Capital.

More than 60 % of U.S. colleges and universities now offer Internet - based courses, according to the sAmerican Federation of Teachers.

• Golub Capital invested $ 675 million in PetVet Care Centers, a Wesport, Conn. - based operator of veterinary hospitals for pets and portfolio company of Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan.

Instead of hiring instructors with a built - in client base, Fields created a «Teacher Training Institute» to teach brand new instructors how to lead a class the Sonic Yoga way.

For the experiment, Ambady and Rosenthal showed muted, 10 - second video clips of professors teaching to participating undergrads, who rated the teachers on 15 dimensions of effectiveness, including warmth, optimism and professionalism, all based entirely on nonverbal cues.

In previous lives, Paolo worked for Uncle Sam at the National Nuclear Security Administration based in Kirtland Air Force Base, and was a Teacher of the English Language at a University in Japan.

The Ohio - based ALICE Training Institute, referenced in the video above, is one of the companies that drills school police officers, teachers, and staff to do more than just hide.

He spearheaded the creation of new teacher evaluations allowing half of a teacher's rating to be based on students» standardized test scores.

i His writing and his work with Impact Investing draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, Waldorf teacher and co-founder of three social enterprises: 1) From 28 - 34 a farm based campus for young people who wanted a college experience without intellectual academics; 2) from 43 - 46 a biological healthcare company and 3) from 46 - present a workflow technology firm focused on personalizing healthcare.

Teach yourself or hire a staff of teachers on a full - or part - time basis.

A total and permanent disability (TPD) discharge relieves you from having to repay a William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program loan, Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program loan, and / or Federal Perkins Loan (Perkins Loan) Program loan or complete a Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant service obligation on the basis of your total and permanent disability.

He didn't say make sure someone believes as you do, votes the way you do, or interprets scripture correctly (God knows how many teachers of the law thought Jesus» interpretation of Scripture was WAY off base).

A law allowing schools in the UK to hire teachers on the basis of their religion has been upheld by the European Commission.

«It is fundamentally wrong that children are denied access to the best teachers when schools prioritise whom they employ not on the basis of who the best candidate for the job is, but also on the basis of religion.

Only < than 1 percent of priests have ever abused a child, far less on a percentage basis than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.

I am an effective teacher too, based on the reaction of those who have heard me.

Small, faith - based schools with religiously motivated teachers are more likely to offer the special attention, loving intimacy and moral standards hat an increasing number of dysfunctional homes can not provide.

«Judaism at the time of Jesus was much more like Catholicism (priests leading worship based on sacrifice), whereas rabbinic Judaism after the Temple's destruction was more like Protestantism (Scripture teachers leading worship without blood sacrifice).»

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

Though this ringing silence on the subject would have been typically Lutheran — as Luther saw it, the works of humankind appear attractive and good, but they are likely to be mortal sins — I suspect that my Sunday school teachers weren't holding back out of any Reformation - based fear of «works righteousness.»

The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

These teachers are charged with using a biblical faith as a basis for illuminating today's world, and they are frustrated by the difficulty of interpreting first - century Eastern literature to a twentieth - century technological society.

If the teacher prefers to teach myth as myth, without demythologizing, he can apply the principle of interpretation which Crombie suggests as a basis for discussion.

From the parable of the Good Samritan, to the several quotations attributed to the Teacher wherein he emphasizes that it is our treatment of our fellow man, and especially the poor, needy, downtrodden, sick, young, old, sinner & believer alike that will serve as the primary basis for our individual judgment come the Day we face our God.

Feuerbach agreed with his theological teacher, Schleiermacher, that «[t] he basis of religion is the feeling of dependency», but went on to assert that «that upon which human beings are fully dependent is originally, nothing other than Nature.

It is not a correct inference to take Paul's list in I Corinthians 12:28 — first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues — and see all of these as «set - aside» persons performing such functions on a specialist basis.