Sentences with phrase «of teachers surveyed»

92 per cent of teachers surveyed said that pupils were more engaged with learning when outdoors and 85 per cent saw a positive impact on their behaviour.

Fifty - one percent of the teachers surveyed said they don't have enough computers; 80 percent reported fewer than one computer for every two students.

Half of the teachers surveyed did not receive any training in sexuality education before teaching it, and three out of four teachers said that a lack of teaching materials was a problem.

Meanwhile, about 60 percent of the teachers surveyed in the other countries held either a bachelor's or a master's degree in addition to their training as teachers.

According to a recent national survey, 63 percent of teachers surveyed reported an increase in the number of students who regularly come to school hungry.

Only 10 % of teachers surveyed believe it has supported children's writing.

The result was that a majority of teachers surveyed were familiar with the idea of the growth mindset but an even greater majority wanted more professional development on the topic.

About one - third of the teachers surveyed said they have had students removed from class for violent offenses, only to see those students return to the classroom the following day.

Almost 90 percent of principals and 75 percent of teachers surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that the policy had made parents more concerned about their child's progress.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the percentage of teachers surveyed who said their evaluations did not identify an area for development.

These reported implementation fidelity results were obtained through a combination of teacher surveys and structured classroom visits by project staff at specified times during the school year.

The fact that 84 % of teachers surveyed want training on how to teach these skills indicates that they feel unprepared to make this shift.

Just over half of the teachers surveyed (51 %) said students were being sent to school without basic equipment like pens.

In fact, 81 percent of teachers surveyed in the study above expressed concerns about the possible pitfalls that arise from mixing professional work with social media.

In terms of staffing, 39 % of the teachers surveyed reported cuts to music staff numbers, while 17 % reported increases.

Did you know that 80 % of teachers surveyed believe that continuous improvement is vital to their success?

Nonetheless, 77 percent of teachers surveyed said that they would oppose eliminating tenure.

Teachers know that tenure protects their lower - performing colleagues: 55 percent of teachers surveyed said that tenure makes it tough to weed out mediocre and incompetent teachers.

A group of Iowa high school students helped report a statewide investigation into classroom science instruction that found that «nearly half of teachers surveyed by IowaWatch journalists teach climate change «as theory, informing students about the variety of thought that exists.

Making it work Our research suggests that schools recognise the importance of developing a full understanding of the factors affecting successful implementation; approximately 40 per cent of the teachers surveyed stressed that they will require training into the use of tablet technology.

The NASUWT teaching union found that more than one third of teachers surveyed felt that their school building was not fit for teaching, with 40 per cent stating that their buildings were not good for pupils.

Understand the technology Our research suggests that schools recognise the importance of developing a full understanding of the factors affecting successful implementation; approximately 40 per cent of the teachers surveyed stressed that they will require training into the use of tablet technology.

According to an American Federation of Teachers survey, 30 percent of American teachers say they «feel pressure to give higher grades than students» work deserves.»

Our initial analysis of the teacher survey data pointed to a clear distinction between principals «efforts to create a vision for learning, on the one hand, and what they do to enact that vision, on the other.

However, based on the responses of the teachers surveyed by Scholastic, there isn't a clear path for finding appropriate tools to guide instruction.

Fewer than one - fifth of the teachers surveyed gave the top rating to their schools in preparing students to learn.

In particular, I exploit a unique feature of the teacher surveys.

In 2002 and 2003 no single choice received more than half of the responses, but the fact that fewer than half of the teachers surveyed selected the first choice, none, is remarkable; it means that for two years» running more than half of the union members surveyed believe that some portion of their pay should be based on accurately measured student growth.

Teachers share what most Americans would likely regard as a vision of responsible citizenship — with 83 % of the teachers surveyed seeing the U.S. as a unique country that stands for something special in the world.

Seventy percent of the teachers surveyed also gave «excellent» or «good» ratings to using feedback from principals and administrators...

Half (50 percent) of parents and two - thirds (67 percent) of teachers surveyed admit to stereotypes about girls and boys in relation to STEM, and two - thirds (68 percent) of teachers said they have seen girls drop STEM subjects due to parental pressure.

More than a third (34 %) of teachers surveyed thought there were young carers at their school who were not sufficiently supported and almost a third (29 %) said they didn't think their school had any particular ways of supporting young carers.

Most concerning, 42 per cent of the teachers surveyed responded that they felt less able to do their job well as a result of their worries and 27 per cent felt distracted at work.

As a result, a significant portion of the teachers surveyed here report spending class time discussing with students how search engines work, how to assess the reliability of the information they find online, and how to improve their search skills.

Even when they teach, over 30 percent of the teachers surveyed provide misinformation to their students, claiming that recent climate change is «likely due to natural causes.»

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

Evidence for this sub-study was provided by responses to 58 items on the first round of teacher surveys and 58 items from the first round of principal surveys.

It was the school's second year of Common Core instruction, and only 7 percent of the teachers surveyed strongly agreed that they were prepared to teach the standards and many voiced the sentiment that they needed to «unlearn» math and relearn it again.

However, 45 % of the 1,250 - strong panel of teachers surveyed across England, Wales and Northern Ireland said they felt pupil behaviour had got worse in the past two years.

One issue affecting re-integration, identified in a National Union of Teachers survey, is the inflexibility of the curriculum in mainstream schools.

Nearly 60 percent of teachers said they believe content - specific professional development is helpful but only 23 percent of teachers surveyed received more than four days of that kind of development the year prior to the study.

The views of teachers in the survey offer a path to compromise, «a «third way» between reformer calls to throw out all teacher job protections and old - guard calls to preserve virtually all elements of the current system,» Teach Plus, which has called for changing the laws challenged in the Vergara lawsuit, said in its summary of the teacher survey.

• McInerney outlined important findings from Teacher Tapp research on workload: 75 per cent of teachers surveyed spend three or more hours a week marking, 60 per cent do three or more additional duties, and 50 per cent run after - school clubs.

Eighty percent of teachers surveyed support a value - added assessment when student test scores are used as part of teacher evaluation.

Nevertheless, three - quarters of teachers surveyed by the Rutgers team said they were not worried that the new evaluations — including those newly tied to student performance would have a negative impact on their tenure protections.

The reduction at primary level was statistically significant, with 22 per cent of teachers surveyed stating their intention to leave in Autumn 2015 compared to 16 per cent in Autumn 2016.