At the retreat, our mission is to not
only teach you the effectiveness of a low - fat, plant - based, whole - food lifestyle for living with diabetes, but also equip you with the skills to take the information home and put it into practice for lifelong success.
Not exact matches
MBCP teacher training is firmly grounded in the principle that the authenticity and
effectiveness of one's
teaching can
only come through one's own personal mindfulness practice.
Yelling is not
only disrespectful and
teaches your child that aggression is okay, but it loses its
effectiveness over time.
Warning: Read this column
only if you are interested in improving your school by maximizing the skill,
effectiveness, and self - reflective abilities of your
teaching staff.
Research has shown that though mobile technology is a great tool in our
teaching and learning experience, many who use it
only use it to increase efficiency and not necessarily
effectiveness.
Both initial certification programs, which happen mostly at the undergraduate level, and master's in
teaching degrees, which provide additional training to existing teachers, have
only a limited impact on teacher
effectiveness.
A teacher's later
effectiveness is
only weakly related to what college they went to, or what grades they got, or whether or not they have a
teaching credential.
A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not
only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the
teaching effectiveness of the original professor.
While these findings can not speak to the
effectiveness of various certification policies, they at least dispel the notion that
only the traditional route to
teaching can produce good teachers.
Paul, Unfortunately, while an administrative credential grants the right to evaluate teachers, it does not guarantee the necessary abilities are acquired —
only that they are presented; just as holding a
teaching credential does not guarantee the teacher has the necessary abilities to instruct (and, btw, what are the agreed upon definitions of ability and
effectiveness?).
[29] This line of research is important, given that policymakers care not
only about the
effectiveness of teachers but of their paths in and out of
teaching careers.
This information is
only available for
teaching position assignments requiring annual
effectiveness ratings.
Because the CTIME process is about continual improvement, we think that the actions co-teachers take based on their ongoing professional learning will result not
only in their own improved
teaching effectiveness, but ultimately in the increased success of the students in their inclusive classes.
Only when similar sources of evidence support similar inferences and conclusions can our confidence in the sources as independent measures of the same construct (i.e.,
teaching effectiveness) increase.
Initiatives to develop
teaching quality and
effectiveness must consider not
only how to identify, reward, and use teachers» skills and abilities, but also how to develop
teaching contexts that enable good practice.
Though
only four states require and provide funding for a multi-year teacher induction program, some states are also focusing on crafting residencies or induction programs to ensure new teachers» success.53 South Carolina's System for Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Professional
Teaching requires that before the beginning of the school year, all new teachers be assigned mentors for at least one year.54 The mentors are selected and matched to mentees on the basis of
effectiveness; knowledge of new teacher professional development and effective adult learning strategies; and similar experience, certifications, and grade level assignments.
That is, they supposedly reflect
only a teacher's
effectiveness, not whether she
teaches high - or low - income students, for instance, or students in accelerated or standard classes.
In other words, using standards not
only to check on student progress, but more frequently, to monitor the
effectiveness of
teaching.
Teaching effectiveness tends to increase rapidly in a teacher's first few years on the job,
only to level off after a few years.
Structuring retirement plans to reward teachers that
only teach for three or four years does not make sense because that would reward teachers who leave before reaching their peak
effectiveness, often to be replaced by someone without any experience.