Sentences with phrase «only decision teachers»

But that's not the only decision teachers will have to make.

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Enjoy watching your capable, experienced teachers as they work with youngsters 20 months to 14 years, knowing that they're teaching not only art, but the ability to focus and to make independent decisions — a skill many adults lack!

In the beginning, as you glimpsed what the teacher not only talked about but lived, as the crowds responded enthusiastically, your rash decision to follow him seemed almost reasonable.

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

Said Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa: «This decision not only reduces the amount of time children will spend taking tests, but also returns valuable instructional time to our teachers.

King responded that the modules were only guides for teachers to adapt to their own teaching styles and decisions.

«This decision not only reduces the amount of time children will spend taking tests, but also returns valuable instructional time to our teachers,» Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said.

It further threatened that if the government does not reverse its decision to sack 9000 primary school teachers in the state, it will have the strike action as the only option.

In our opinion, it is only in this environment that teachers will be trusted to make appropriate decisions regarding what is «best practice» in teaching and learning.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

Teachers need to consider not only what their students create, but also how they give students space to make decisions around teamwork, tasks, and the inquiry process.

Yet according to the National Council on Teacher Quality, as of 2014, only eighteen states required performance to be considered in making layoff decisions.

A decision was made at Curry, which has received numerous awards for its technology innovation and its Center for Technology and Teacher Education, not only to include emerging technology tools in instruction but also to lead in their development.

RTT encouraged states and districts not only to revamp their teacher and principal evaluation policies but also to use evaluation results to make personnel decisions.

That's because its decision to condition ESEA flexibility on state adoption of teacher evaluation systems has not only raised the stakes of reading and math tests (making them less popular and potentially more damaging to the educational enterprise).

Having more open discussions would not only lead to more ethical decisions for individual students, but also could allow teachers to identify the systemic causes of these individual cases — and help schools begin to make sustainable change.

Generally, school autonomy seems to have a positive impact — but only when schools are given extensive decision - making powers over the purchase of supplies, the hiring and rewarding of teachers, and the choosing of instructional methods.

It found that only 53 % of teachers believe that their opinions are factored into decision - making at their school.

Washington State goes even further: not only can a teacher appeal a principal's decision to the local school board; the board's decision can be appealed all the way to the state supreme court.

«As I consider Secretary Arne Duncan's decision, I can only conclude rescinding the waiver is a failure of federal policy, not of our public schools, students or teachers,» she said.

Specifically, we've called for giving teachers tools to use assessments to inform instruction, minimizing test prep (which research suggests does not necessarily lead to increased test scores), focusing on student growth rather than absolute proficiency, and using test scores as only one measure among many in high - stakes decisions.

But the supporters of Suburban Project Concern, which is well regarded because student and community participation is voluntary, say the board's decision made at the start of the school year was based not only on economic problems but on political pressure from the teachers» union.

The only truly strong defense of legislative decisions is having a focus on outcomes — developing a strong accountability system, introducing incentives for higher performance, developing reliable teacher evaluation systems, and the like.

Teacher Powered Schools strive for a «flattened» hierarchy where teachers run the school, not only making decisions such as what curriculum to use, but having a true say in the big decisions like staff hiring, budgets and school mission and vision.

If preservice teachers were to view only the classroom videos that are part of this case study, they would not be privy to the changes and decisions the teachers made as a result of prior experiences gained from teaching the lesson in similar situations.

The retirement system was a large part of many a veteran teacher's decision to return to the schools — only the remaining few school board run schools, not the charters, allowed teachers to participate, and if you were already invested in the system, it was hard to retire or to continue to contribute, which was a problem for teachers who had already invested many years in the retirement system.

Will teachers on the hiring committee have only the power to recommend a candidate or final decision - making power?

We urge the governor to agree only to a system that truly supports teachers, stops treating them like widgets and allows for smart staffing and compensation decisions that acknowledge that effective teaching matters.

«The reception baseline needs to be appropriate to pupils and schools — we can only influence the shape of it, to ensure that it does not have negative impact on children or teachers, if we're involved in the design and are around the table when decisions are made.»

«Attracting and retaining effective teachers to these schools must be the highest priority, but the trial court's decision will only make that much harder.»

But in the end, the community needed to make that decision; in order for CBE to be successful at RSU 2, it couldn't rest only on the shoulders of our teachers and schools.

In addition, «27 states [now] require annual evaluations for all teachers, compared to just 15 states in 2009;» «17 states include student growth as the preponderant criterion in teacher evaluations, up from only four states in 2009... An additional 18 states include growth measures as a «significant» criterion in teacher evaluations;» «23 states require that evidence of teacher performance be used in tenure decisions [whereas no] state had such a policy in 2009;» «19 states require that teacher performance is considered in reduction in force decisions;» and the «majority of states (28) now articulate that ineffectiveness is grounds for teacher dismissal» (p. 6).

House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) was critical of last year's $ 10 billion Edujobs funding, arguing that a teacher bailout wouldn't create permanent jobs and that supplementing state budgets only postpones tough decisions while making states more dependent on the federal government.

In a grades 5 — 8 middle school with only two English teachers, a principal can make the decision to have her more effective teacher loop with groups of high - need students throughout middle school.

More importantly, the views of teachers can not be the only ones that predominate in education decision - making.

(The data is only collected every four years, and the recession probably also affected teachers» decisions.)

In a 2016 Ford Foundation - commissioned report, Barnett Berry, Founder and CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality, noted that hybrid roles that enable teachers to make decisions about programs, materials and resources ensure not only a collaborative vision and strategy to reach all students, but increased investment and excitement on the part of the teachers themselves.

For example, rethinking school norms that vest decision making only in the principal, and instead engaging teachers in identifying issues and determining solutions, can lead to greater school effectiveness for all involved — administrators, teachers and students.

«Of course, it's funny only if those tests aren't being used to make actual decisions about students, teachers, and schools — if those decisions are being made based on the work I used to do, that seems pretty insane to me.»

The Chicago Teachers Union and a parent group pressed the Chicago Board of Education for clarity on its decision to have students at only a small number of schools take the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams in reading and math.

Officials in those parishes said they made the decision to cancel classes only after gauging the number of teachers who planned to take personal days to travel to the Capitol.

In Shanker's vision, not only would union representatives be part of the authorizing board of charter schools, charter school teachers would be represented by unions, and charter school proposals would include «a plan for faculty decision making.»

«The balance of power in decision - making is shifted to include not only educators but parents,» says Priscilla Wohlstetter, visiting professor at Columbia University's Teachers College and professor at USC's Rossier School of Education.

Key features of these systems include not only the instruments used for evaluation but also the expertise of the consulting teachers or mentors — skilled teachers in the same subject areas and school levels who have released time to serve as mentors to support their fellow teachers — and the system of due process and review that involve a panel of both teachers and administrators in making recommendations about personnel decisions based on the evidence presented to them from the evaluations.

We had made a decision at the beginning of this project not to look at changes in instruction during a school year with only three observations per teacher.

A teacher who feels empowered and involved in the decision - making process will not only have greater job satisfaction but will also be better able to accept decisions with which he might disagree.

When presented with opportunities to make significant decisions in their schools, students almost always test adults through parroting teachers and others; saying only what they think adults want to hear; and testing adults by offering the most outlandish possibilities.

In New York City, value - added data has been used for the last two years by principals only to make teacher tenure decisions.

Most districts and states have only just begun to use student growth measures to inform high - stakes decisions about teachers.

Evidence from recent years suggests that this is not the case and that the decision to pass Act 10 may have hurt not only teachers and other public servants, but Wisconsin's students as well.