Sentences with phrase «of weak teachers»

At those good schools, she said, the state teacher evaluation system could actually get in the way of getting rid of weak teachers.

Just 36 percent of them, according to Public Agenda, believe that their tougher scrutiny of weak teachers is leading to tenure denials and only 30 percent report that student achievement is being factored into their teacher evaluations.

Moreover, the lesson plans had the greatest impact in the hands of weaker teachers.

Not exact matches

If the teacher really wants to know the truth of the boy's situation, he must share the boy's place, must be weak enough to suffer the fullness of the boy's experience of living with the drunken father.

Gladys i sense your frustration but we have a teacher who explains the word to us he is wonderful he opens the word to me all the time i listen to him because from him comes wisdom he is the most humble and gentle of teachers and always leads us into truth.He is our friend our comforter and the one who empowers us when we are weak and he is the holy spirit and once we receive him he never leaves us.jeremiah33: Call to me and i will answer you and show you great and mighty things... brentnz

In fact, while you give what amounts to a weak nod to a few «Jesus» things, the overall message is clear: you don't know what you believe yet you profess to be a Christian teacher / author, a teacher of the very Bible you claim to not grasp.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

She said even if they are not connected to the rankings of teachers and students, they are useful in finding out the weak points in instruction.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

Qualitative focus group follow - up studies showed that acceptance is heavily conditioned by authority figures (teachers, TV personalities, religious figures) and the correlation between the students» understanding of evolution and their acceptance of it is weak.

My core is the weakest part of my body and I am a Yoga Teacher.

This British drama represents the second screen version of Terence Ratigan's play about a school teacher with a weak heart facing forced retirement.

Bridget Kudrle: «How is this study identifying «strong» and «weak» teachers, on the basis of which they draw their conclusions about future student outcomes?

Do school board members need to peruse Education Next's reader - friendly version of this econometric study, then take appropriate steps to replace weak teachers with high performers?

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

Maria Bustillos objects to «firing «weaker» teachers for the sake of a barely perceptible increase in students» «lifetime income.

After visiting the schools, Gustafson reported that all four — each an independent «mom - and - pop» operation with no links to national groups — faced a host of challenges, including strained budgets, low enrollments, curriculum problems, inexperienced staff, weak professional development for teachers, and board members ignorant of testing and other academic essentials.

Typical of these lesson plans, it is thin on substance, leaves the students to teach themselves about civil disobedience, and does not help teachers whose own knowledge of civil disobedience is weak.

Our response has been to embrace a bureaucratic solution that handcuffs the capable and incapable alike and supposedly keeps weak teachers out of the classroom.

The central idea here is that teachers could face relatively strong or weak incentives under the same merit pay program as a result of the number of teachers at their school.

«Using student test scores to sanction teachers and schools makes it more likely they will adjust their behaviour to protect themselves, which may mean leaving the weakest learners behind,» explains Manos Antoninis, Director of the GEM Report.

Once he's engaged, a teacher can challenge him to use a different, weaker skill set for another part of the lesson, helping him develop those parts of his brain.

But today the absence of a common core is a critical handicap, particularly for the neediest kids, weakest teachers, and least advantaged schools.

Hanushek's key insight is that «we are seeing not a war on teachers, but a war on the blunt and detrimental policies of teachers unions,» especially when it come to purging classroom ranks of a smallish number of chronically weak instructors.

States where a greater fraction of teachers were covered by a union contract in 1987 were much less likely to pass a charter law in the 1990s, more likely to pass a law later (if at all), and more likely to pass a weaker law.

On Top of the News Cincinnati Public Schools to put top teachers at weak schools 06/14/10 Cincinnati.com Behind the Headline An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom Summer 2010 Education Next Cincinnati teachers who receive special training to serve as «lead teachers» will no longer be able to return to their home schools, but -LSB-...]

When she puts bad and weak teachers on notice, she doesn't realize that she's targeting a historic avenue of middle - class employment for African Americans in the city.

I'm referring to mutual acknowledgment of the acute problems of weak achievement, unequal opportunity, too many dropout factories, and too few terrific teachers.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

DB plans remain the norm in the public education sector, however, despite the fiscal problems and the weak economic rationale for mobile professionals like teachers, many of whom move out of state or out of the profession and lose much of their accumulated benefits.

[iii] Experienced teachers with better track records find it easier to find jobs elsewhere and the weakest teachers accumulate in the employers of last resort — low - income schools and districts.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

Everyone else, he adds with regret in his voice, was often left with a «lifetime of bad memories and demeaning experiences,» like being picked last for basketball scrimmage or being ridiculed by teachers and fellow students for being too weak or too slow.

Aside from recognizing the importance of talent and accumulated skill, another advantage of a longer term perspective is that it frees up teachers with a strong track record to separate their own interests from those of their weakest colleagues.

If our students fail to achieve it is because of the «inundating smog of low expectation» or our own «weak internal locus of control» — a failure to believe that we as teachers can control events that affect our students.

Teaching children to read is central to a teacher's calling, but a large body of evidence shows that teachers get weak training in individual learning differences and in teaching reading to students with diverse backgrounds and abilities.

While we spent recent years pretending that a teacher might lose his or her job because of an 8th grader's poor test results, we gave short shrift to the reality facing the 8th grader: a lifetime of truncated opportunities dictated by weak performance at an incredibly young age.

For instance, one study of the 345,000 - student Miami - Dade County, Fla., school system finds that the most effective principals appear to be particularly adept at weeding out weak teachers and keeping strong ones.

Parents and teachers complained — with some legitimacy — that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era set loose an avalanche of weak fill - in - the - bubble tests to assess student mastery of watered - down state academic standards.

We have been weak on building the capacity of teachers to meet the radical new, high standards that are now embodied in policy as well as aspirations.

Teachers and principals report that the stronger specialists help them analyze lesson plans and student work in the context of the new standards, while the weaker ones add little value at best and misinformation at worst.

While harsh on teacher unions, Brimelow makes excuses for journalists whose coverage of the unions is weak or limited: «On those rare occasions when reporters do cover the teacher unions, they find themselves overwhelmed by the arcane and incomprehensible.»

Now, it strikes me as ludicrous for the unions to sit quietly by and share the blame for timid, tepid leadership, or when unions passively take the blame for weak teachers when teacher preparation programs produce graduates of dubious merit.

In contrast, the difficulty of firing civil - service teachers implies that they had weak extrinsic incentives and may be more sensitive to factors affecting their intrinsic motivation.

Systemic inequality is certainly a factor as well, given that children of color are more likely to attend schools with lower funding levels and weaker teachers.

lack of personnel, lack of money, lack of time... students who have weak skills, teachers whose content and pedagogy need big shifts... administrators who are still learning what good common core instruction in their teachers should look like... you name it, this is a work in progress.

Using data captured by that state's intensive teacher evaluation protocol, researchers identified teachers who were weak in one (or more) of a constellation of assessed characteristics, and then matched them with teachers who were strong in corresponding areas.

«Teachers love the idea of teaming, but it is very important to remember that any team is only as strong as its weakest link,» warned Dr. Layne Hunt, principal at Monroe (Michigan) High School.

They defend near - lifetime employment in the form of tenure and weak rules on evaluating teachers and principals that help keep Epps and other so - called educators in their jobs.

The abundance of stories from teachers about how motivated weak readers have become, and how much better those kids feel about themselves as a result of being included in reading the core texts and doing the work of the unit, is — without question — a summative finding of the Knowledge Matters School Tour.