Sentences with phrase «on holding teachers accountable»

A dismissive rant on holding teachers accountable?

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The things that motivate me to get on my mat each day are my physical and mental health, someone else (my husband) holding me accountable, and the respect and admiration I have for my yoga teacher and the Ashtanga lineage.

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

On the other hand, while providing all of those supports, we understand if teachers and principals are not held accountable to high expectations for these children.

Elia told reporters after the Regents meeting that teachers still would be held accountable in their jobs on the basis of the «transition» ratings.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

New York has a 3 - to 4 - year probationary periods for new teachers and a new evaluation system, which established an expedited process allowing schools to hold teachers accountable based on teacher evaluation results.

«If you hold teachers accountable for children who may not test well or do well on the day of an observation, then it will drive away the teachers we do have and discourage future teachers from entering the most amazing profession,» she said.

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?»)

Parents should, through membership of parent teacher associations and as parent governors, hold the governance and management of the school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities and value given to art and design on the curriculum and in the professional development of its teachers and support staff

Eighteen of the 25 institutions that train teachers in Florida have lost state approval of one or more of their education programs under a law that holds them accountable for their students» performance on the state's basic - skills test for teachers.

Evaluating teachers based on the student test results is bad for everyone: «It's like if the measure of your health and wellness were what you weighed every day — and so, if you were held accountable only for what you weighed, you'd be tempted to take diet pills,» he says.

It quickly became a liability to hold teachers accountable for results on tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

With the growing awareness that traditional schools of education are failing to produce exceptional teachers, however, a national effort is under way to ensure that education schools are held accountable for the impact their graduates have on student achievement.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

I can continue to confer with my students on a regular basis, but they can start to keep each other accountable and have rich and deliberate conversation with each other, which is a more authentic healthy reading habit than being held accountable to a teacher.

Across the country, schools spend some $ 14 billion a year on the extra pay for advanced degrees, according to one study, though the practice is gaining greater scrutiny as policy - makers look to hold teachers more accountable for students» learning.

This defect strikes at the very heart of the argument that teachers ought to be held accountable for student achievement based on these tests.

For years, efforts to improve K - 12 schools have focused on developing more rigorous academic standards, testing students, holding teachers and administrators accountable for students» test results, and creating new charter schools.

Schools and teachers are being held accountable for proving student achievement in unprecedented ways, including tying teacher salaries to student scores on standardized tests.

But it requires school, grade - level, classroom, teacher, and student science - to - practice approaches that focus on consistently teaching, reinforcing, and holding everyone accountable for demonstrating these skills.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Then, we measure and hold ourselves accountable for those actual outcomes, giving teachers feedback and coaching on how they're interacting with students.

Both seem to occur at all costs simply to stay afloat during «rough» times, but both also likely have deleterious effects on students in such schools, as well as teachers being held accountable for the students «they» teach.

Rajagopal has also shown that his model can be replicated in any classroom by a teacher who is willing to assume responsibility for each student's success, hold students accountable, embrace culturally responsive instruction, and vigorously work on behalf of all students.

The advisory teacher regularly reviews each student's progress through school - generated biweekly reports, holding students accountable for staying on track.

A school system that is not accountable for providing continuous, high quality resources for school communities has no business holding students and teachers accountable for performance on tests.

It will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold teachers and schools accountable for educating students.

It does not hold the adults who care for our children accountable; it does not allow teacher evaluations based on whether students are being given the tools to succeed; it does not allow for differential pay for teachers serving in our most challenging schools, and it gives lifetime tenure usually after two to three years — making it nearly impossible to lay off ineffective teachers.

Among its promises are that Democrats will support free community college for all, make it easier to repay student loans, allow borrowers with student loans to discharge their debts in bankruptcy if necessary, strengthen higher education schools that serve minorities, crack down on «for - profit schools that take millions in federal financial aid,» and continue to work to improve public schools by holding teachers and schools «accountable.»

It goes by standardized test scores, and holds teachers accountable for what's called student growth, which comes down to the difference between how well students performed on a test and how well a predictive model «expected» them to do.

Judson (2010) proposes that there are multiple layers for this — when teachers are evaluated on science scores, they will teach Science; when schools are held accountable for science scores, they will allocate resources to Science.

Her «robbing students» claim is based on the fact that the governor is tying a funding infusion to the elimination of the archaic, child - unfriendly, and industrial - style seniority system, in addition to a mandate to hold teachers accountable for student learning.

Joel I. Klein, who presided over a radical reorganization of the New York City school system and drew praise and criticism for efforts to raise test scores and hold teachers accountable for them, resigned on Tuesday as chancellor after eight years in the job.

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

This isn't about teachers being held accountable to get better on their own, it is also about the knowledge and expertise of principals and how they support the teachers, and the knowledge and the expertise of the central office and how they support the principals who support the teachers.

Student accountability: Although teachers obviously have enormous influence on student learning, teachers can not succeed without students being held accountable.

It will take three to five years to determine the reliability of SBAC, and in the mean time, if the state doesn't change course, Connecticut students and teachers will be held accountable for scores on an unproven test.

For three years, Kimberly Safran has been on the front lines of the Pittsburgh school district's push to hold teachers more accountable for student achievement.

Colorado's law will hold teachers accountable for whether their students are learning, with 50 % of a teacher's evaluation based on students» academic growth as measured partially by test scores.

The Common Core is a critical tool for teachers so they can ensure that every child is on the path to success, and it is critical for parents to hold the system accountable.

This is pure union obstructionism and especially laughable coming from an organization whose mantra is, «Let's spend bushels more on public education... but don't hold any unionized teachers accountable.»

As the emphasis on reading increases, teachers are held less accountable for science content, an area toward which teachers may already feel intimidated.

On the one hand, she admits that there are bad teachers; on the other, efforts to hold them accountable, as Washington, D.C., recently did, are met with threats of lawsuitOn the one hand, she admits that there are bad teachers; on the other, efforts to hold them accountable, as Washington, D.C., recently did, are met with threats of lawsuiton the other, efforts to hold them accountable, as Washington, D.C., recently did, are met with threats of lawsuits.

Just after New Year's Day, Illinois educators introduced a major reform proposal to hold school administrators, school board members and teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability for All.

She adds, «WTU teachers believe that educators should have an evaluation system that focuses on supporting and assisting those who work in the classroom and holds the whole system accountable, not one that obsesses on points, ratings, and consequences solely for teachers.»

An education reform bill circulating this week would require kindergarten screening exams and teacher evaluations based partly on test scores, but doesn't update the state's system for holding schools accountable for student performance.

Those policy makers have been pursuing a «Test - and - Punish» policy primarily relying on tests as a way of holding schools and teachers accountable and using threats to pressure schools.