Sentences with phrase «percent of the teachers surveyed»

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.

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

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.»

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.

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

While 87 percent of teachers surveyed believe they improved «some» or «tremendously» over the last several years, only about half surveyed believe the majority of professional development actually improved their instruction.

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.

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

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, CPS officials said an Illinois teacher survey found 69 percent of teachers believe they do not have sufficient instructional time to meet the needs of all of their students.

In last year's inaugural Illinois 5Essentials Survey, 87 percent of all schools in the state met the 50 - percent participation threshold to receive a Report with participation from more than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible 6th through 12th graders across Illinois.

Most recently, in May, the Comptroller's office released an analysis that revealed that after spending over $ 347 million on upgrading internet services, 45 percent of teachers said their schools» internet quality «did not meet their instructional needs,» a survey of middle school teachers found.

-- A solid majority of voters surveyed — 62 percent — said they agreed with Cuomo's proposal to make public school teachers eligible for tenure after five years, instead of the current three - year requirement.

A survey of more than 400 teachers and principals found that only 10 percent were fully satisfied with the strength of the wireless signals on their campuses, Stringer said Sunday.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cTeachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

What do you think of the recent survey published in Science that showed that only 28 percent of biology teachers taught evolution effectively, 13 percent explicitly advocated for creationism, and the rest endorsed neither?

On his television show in 2004, Phil McGraw («Dr. Phil») opined that ADHD is «so overdiagnosed,» and a survey in 2005 by psychologists Jill Norvilitis of the University at Buffalo, S.U.N.Y., and Ping Fang of Capitol Normal University in Beijing revealed that in the U.S., 82 percent of teachers and 68 percent of undergraduates agreed that «ADHD is overdiagnosed today.»

According to the NCS Employee Benefit Survey (EBS), 87 percent of K — 12 teachers participate in a health insurance plan (medical, dental, vision, or prescription drug) through their employer, compared to 80 percent of private - sector professionals (our estimate, adjusting for the part - time percentage).

Stout surveyed 785 of 865 accredited teacher - training schools and found that a majority identified emotional stability as being of primary importance and that approximately 45 percent actually assessed students» emotional stability, identifying it as the second most important criterion for determining fitness for teaching, behind academic credentials.

The survey of 923 elementary teachers that writer Nanette Asimov referenced reveals that «about 80 percent of those teachers said they spent less than an hour each week teaching science.»

On the most recent national survey from the National Center for Education Statistics, only 7.3 percent of teachers had 30 or more years of teaching experience.

For example, a 2011 survey by William Schmidt of Michigan State University of mathematics teachers in 40 states found that, while the overwhelming majority of teachers had read the standards and liked them, some 80 percent said they were «pretty much the same» as previous state standards.

A survey by the American Federation of Teachers in 2013 found that 75 percent of that union's members supported the standards, although many teachers feared that they were not prepared to teaTeachers in 2013 found that 75 percent of that union's members supported the standards, although many teachers feared that they were not prepared to teateachers feared that they were not prepared to teach them.

According to the survey, 64 percent of teachers are still asking class parents for help via flyers and notes home.

More than half of the teachers participating in the survey (61 percent) report that they want parents to support student learning activities such as listening to students read, tutoring and helping with homework.

More than three out of five teacher education alumni surveyed (62 percent) report that schools of education do not prepare their graduates to cope with the realities of todays classrooms.

Ninety - two percent of educators (teachers, counselors, and other staff) say that childhood grief is a serious problem that deserves more attention in schools, according to a 2012 survey from the American Federation of Teachers and New York Life Fouteachers, counselors, and other staff) say that childhood grief is a serious problem that deserves more attention in schools, according to a 2012 survey from the American Federation of Teachers and New York Life FouTeachers and New York Life Foundation.

Education Sector's 2011 survey, for example, found that more than 40 percent of teachers want their unions to focus more on teacher performance and student achievement and less than half consider unions to be absolutely essential.

The 2012 annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance found that only 43 percent of teachers have a positive view of unions, and the percentage of teachers holding negative views doubled in one year to 32 percent.

There should be a greater focus on training educators to support grieving students, according to 89 percent of the surveyed teachers.

In that survey, nearly 70 percent of classroom teachers reported having at least one student in their class (or classes) who has lost a parent, guardian, sibling, or close friend in the past year.

According to an internal survey at Gilder Lehrman, 70 percent of teachers said they would continue to use the curriculum even if their future students couldn't see the play.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

In fact, according to a recent Ed Week survey, 70 percent of teachers in high - poverty schools reported that they lack the materials — such as pencils, paper, and chalk — necessary to do their jobs.

In the 2007 Education Next - Program on Education Policy and Governance survey, my colleagues and I found that just 33 percent of Americans would prefer to offer a larger salary increase to teachers «in subject areas where there are shortages, such as math and science» rather than a smaller salary increase to all teachers.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

Between 1992 and 2014, the percentage of teachers with more than a bachelor's degree increased from 46 percent to 56 percent, based on data from the Current Population Survey.

In classes with more than 24 students, 58 percent had a mishap — ranging from a minor chemical spill to an accident with injury — in the previous year, according to a 2001 survey of Texas teachers conducted by Ms. West.

Commenting on the results of its school surveys, the World Bank says: «With regard to instruction, 99 percent of the principals have a good grasp of pedagogical theories including student learning behaviours, teachers» pedagogical role, and the knowledge construction process.»

Another survey, conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance on behalf of Education Next, found that only 43 percent of teachers have a positive view of unions, while the percentage of teachers holding negative views doubled from 2011 to 2012 to 32 percent (see complete results for 2011 and 2012 Education Next - PEPG surveys at educationnext.org).

In the most recent available survey (1999 — 2000), 90 percent of public school teachers reported that they have regular state certification in their primary teaching area.

A CPRE survey found that most teachers were motivated by the knowledge - and - skills pay amounts and that 75 percent of them wanted the program to continue.

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

The combined power of persuasion, purse, and professional development has reaped results: nearly 90 percent of teachers in Louisiana who responded to the RAND survey report using Eureka Math, a Tier 1 program.

Sixty - five percent of teachers think games could help them better engage students, but just one in ten percent use any sort of educational computer game in class, according to a recent survey.

Not surprisingly, today's students use social media as their main form of communication and connection, yet a University of Phoenix ® College of Education survey conducted online by Harris Poll in April among 1,002 U.S. K - 12 teachers found that only «13 percent of today's K - 12 teachers have integrated social media into classroom learning, with an overwhelming majority (87 percent) reporting they have not embraced social platforms.»

In a recent survey, Teachers Network found that 80 percent of teachers said network participation encouraged them to remain in the classroom, while 90 percent said that networking improved their teaching pTeachers Network found that 80 percent of teachers said network participation encouraged them to remain in the classroom, while 90 percent said that networking improved their teaching pteachers said network participation encouraged them to remain in the classroom, while 90 percent said that networking improved their teaching practice.

Still, he said his surveys suggest that between 8 and 10 percent of teachers are absent on any given day, and there's some anecdotal evidence on his side.

Nearly 31 percent of the schools in the CAL survey have some uncertified language teachers.

A nationally representative survey by Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

In our own survey, 37 percent of the American public claims to pay either «a great deal» or «quite a bit» of attention to issues involving education, while 54 percent of the affluent and an overwhelming 84 percent of teachers do so.