Sentences with phrase «pilot teachers do»

If pilot teachers don't meet their contract requirements, they lose their employment at the pilot, and LAUSD looks to place them in a different, traditional school in the district.

Although pilot teachers did not indicate that they were working harder or were more innovative than comparison teachers indicated, they were more likely to view teaching low - performing students as an opportunity to demonstrate their teaching ability, and less likely to view teaching low - performers as «a burden.»

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A pilot programme will pay participants up to $ 5,000 per year for doing things such as attending parent - teacher meetings, going to a doctor and opening bank accounts.

If you have principal support it makes it easy, but if you don't I recommend getting the support of a couple of teachers and doing a pilot.

Speaking to the BBC, former head teacher and government consultant on the planned pilot project, Peter Walker said: «It doesn't cause any harm whatsoever, a child still has a right to say no, indeed so does a parent, it doesn't disrupt the running of the school, it's relatively cheap to do and brings great benefits like improved performances.»

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

Support from CZI allows us to draw upon the work we have already done,» said Jones, «including a content analysis of 25 leading evidence - based SEL programs, to develop a set of kernels that are grounded in research and practice, and to work directly with teachers to pilot the kernels and learn from them with the larger goal of generating effective and responsive practices that support children's healthy development and well - being.»

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Utah is one of six states that do not test teachers at all before they are certified, but it is piloting subject - matter tests for prospective teachers.

Do you see any indication that Congress intended this as a requirement that states «develop, adopt, pilot, and implement, with the involvement of teachers and principals, teacher and principal evaluation and support systems,» as Duncan now mandates?

Even though most teachers reported that students were highly engaged when working with digital content and were better able to learn the material, only one - fifth of Rogers pilot teachers said their students did better on benchmark tests the first year (see Figure 1).

We did some whole school sample work and some pilot studies and, in a nutshell, our kids weren't writing enough — which meant that our teachers weren't planning enough low stakes writing for opportunities for them to actually develop their skills.

This fall she served on teacher focus groups while also designing and piloting new curriculum in her classroom, which she will continue doing throughout the rest of the school year.

Thirty districts, encompassing over 15,000 teachers and principals, piloted aspects of the new evaluation system so that the Department could discover first - hand what works, what doesn't, and what districts should focus on in the first couple of years of implementation.

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While a LIS school can ask its teachers to sign a «commitment to the plan» that expects them to put in extra work and participate in professional development, the agreement doesn't have the same enforcement power that pilot school elect - to - work agreements have.

We believe Oakland teachers know best what will increase their job satisfaction and retention in their schools and are uniquely positioned to design and pilot solutions to do so.

In that first pilot year, I was new and didn't realize my school had decided not to rate any new teacher highly.

«After the first month in my pilot, my teachers said, «We don't get it.

William Firestone, Ph.D. of Rutgers University (the external pilot evaluator), recently acknowledged the importance of training teachers and evaluators on the evaluation instrument and the time it takes to do this thoroughly.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

Even though much more needs to be done to improve working conditions for teachers and learning conditions for students, Rep. Horn is hopeful that the pilot program will help to shed some light on how to best help teachers develop and improve on their craft.

The new pilot in Anacortes has the potential to fill that void with a system that pushes even the best teachers to do better.

The district had already been piloting a separate teacher - evaluation program that puts as much emphasis on teacher observations as it does on student growth.

They interviewed teachers who had done 1TWO1 pilots, gathered feedback from the technology staff on battery life and other issues, and used what they learned to bring in a handful of devices.

We do have a pay - for - performance pilot in New Mexico that is based on a teacher's effectiveness.

The Kellogg Foundation funding covers a two - year period from January 2015 to December 2016, and will focus on preparing school leaders and teachers to do effective family engagement, as well as a pilot program to connect childcare providers with early childhood classroom teachers.

However, Professor John Howson, an education statistician, has raised concerns that the pilot does not accurately reflect the subjects with current teacher shortages, such as design technology and business studies.

Acting on this responsibility (and because they have the bureaucratic freedom to do so), teachers are implementing a digital learning pilot program, particularly in mathematics.

Now, the new teacher evaluation system that is being introduced by the State, the City, and the Talent Management Pilot Program, does not take into consideration the time and effort our community has invested in establishing high quality educational programs and student achievement.

One of the school's computer science teachers, Ben Samuels - Kalow, is certified to teach in social studies, but when he was doing his teaching residency at the school in the 2012 - 13 school year, the principal, Ramon Gonzalez, noticed that he was computer savvy and asked if he would participate in a pilot program aimed at training teachers in teaching computer science.