Sentences with phrase «pressure on teacher»

Owen Hathway, Wales policy officer for the National Teachers» Union (NUT), said: «There are questions about how practical it would be given the time constraints and pressure on teacher workloads.»

Reversing the drive to push all students into taking EBacc subjects would spread the burden and ease some pressure on teacher recruitment, while simplifying the various training routes could also boost applications.

That would likely mean some combination of downward pressure on teacher salaries, larger classes, and limited advanced and elective course offerings.

This approach, however, puts a lot of pressure on the teacher.

At school, there is growing pressure on teachers to make their classes achieve certain thresholds on standardized tests.

Working as an Early Childhood Assistant for a reading specialist and later in grades 1 - 3, Pam became more aware of the pressure on teachers to push children to learn subjects faster and earlier than perhaps their development warranted.

The whole system puts unbelievably intense pressure on teachers, resulting in all sorts of unintended consequences like the standardized test cheating scandals, schools cutting into recess, etc. etc..

Many parents who have signed their children out of testing contend that the evaluation law puts undue pressure on teachers and students alike.

«We also welcome the fact that the Review Body has not only recognised the serious financial pressures on teachers, by supporting a salary advance scheme for housing rental deposits, but has also stated that given current recruitment and retention trends «a significant uplift to the pay framework is likely to be required.»

Too many employers are placing intense pressure on teachers by cynically using the fear of inspection to make unnecessary demands, the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard today.

There is still no sign that either Government or inspection bodies are taking any steps to prevent these unacceptable pressures on teachers.»

Even before social media, there was pressure on teachers to try to be popular and relevant.

The school's principal told journalist Rachel Aviv that his school district was «increasingly «corporate,» with every school focused on the «bottom line,» putting additional pressure on teachers to pull up test scores despite there being no national standard.

«The pressure on teachers and headteachers is enormous and is putting at risk their own mental and physical health and wellbeing.

Couple this pop culture inundation with the growing pressure on teachers to teach from a scripted curriculum, excluding discussions or even reflections, of kindness and other important lifeskills evoking critical thinking from children, and the fertile ground for growing a community focused on kindness is scarce (Darling - Hammond, 2012).

«Slowly returning to social promotion relieves the pressure on teachers, parents, and students, but ultimately devalues the diploma the kids receive.»

In other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.»

By contrast, in my experience, pretty much the only pressure on teachers to attend to the learning of their quicker, higher - achieving pupils comes from parents — and the pressure - exerting parents are almost always ensconced securely in the middle class.

Another obstacle is the staying power of standards - based reform, which has placed greater pressure on teachers and other educators to demonstrate their effectiveness.

«It's clear that NCLB has not worked well,» with pressures on teachers and students, sometimes leading to instances of cheating and maneuvering.

The latest news also comes as expectations around educational standards continue to increase, and following a Budget which revealed plans to roll out an «achieving educational excellence everywhere» strategy — putting additional pressure on teachers and school leaders.

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

Schwartz says opposition within the education community mainly centers on implementation of the new standards, and the pressure on teachers.

The net effect is that we place a lot more pressure on teachers and a lot more pressure on kids than they have ever faced before.

The Australian Greens have pledged to deliver funding for 2235 new teachers in disadvantaged government schools as part of a $ 1 billion scheme to relieve the pressure on teachers and schools and lift Australian educational achievement.

However, there is pressure on teachers who teach in PBL environments, such as art classes and other «making» classes, that formal observations still require the teacher to perform the same old song - and - dance routine of the conventional lecture / demo.

Kids can have a tough time finding a caring adult or a circle of friends in a big school, and the pressure on teachers to boost achievement may add to that lack of relatedness.

(Because NAEP employs just a sample of students and schools, it also means less curricular distortion and pressure on teachers.)

The report warned that new teams were causing «unintended and unsustainable levels of work for learners and teachers» and warned that «the need to take action to address the very real pressures on teachers».

Naplan results are an enormous preoccupation with school leadership and put pressure on teachers.

Assessment and Reporting is a response to the pressures on teachers and schools not only to improve the quality of teaching, but also to demonstrate improved outcomes.

According to a review carried out by the Scottish government, new qualifications in the country have resulted in a significant amount of pressure on teachers and pupils.

Larger classes mean less individual support for students, and put more pressure on teachers at a time when we desperately need to reduce workload.»

«Since we had NAPLAN, and My School, there's more pressure on teachers to say the child is going to be reading by the end of the year.

However research suggests there are numerous barriers to engaging with the subject, including pressures on teacher time and lack of confidence in delivering the subject.

Lastly, NCLB «s promise of a substantial increase in student academic achievement has not been materialized, and the law's pressure on teachers to raise test scores has backfired into resentment of federal involvement in schooling.

In general, studies indicated that high - stakes standardized basic skills tests led to: a) a narrowing of the curriculum, b) an overemphasis on basic skills and test - like instructional methods, c) a reduction in effective instructional time and an increase in time for test preparation, d) inflated test scores, and e) pressure on teachers to improve test scores (Herman & Golan, 1993; Nolen, Haladyna, & Haas, 1992; Resnick & Resnick, 1992; Shepard, 1991; Shepard & Dougherty, 1991, Smith, 1991; Smith, Edelsky, Draper, Rottenberg, & Cherland, 1990).

In short, value added would intensify the existing unhealthy pressure on teachers to teach to the test.

NCLB's premise was that major improvement in education would come about through placing pressure on teachers to have students increase their test scores.

On top of all that we approved virtual schools, unlimited charter schools, put undue pressure on teachers and principals by adopting an assessment tool that is unnecessarily bureaucratic, adopted the Common Core, and are preparing to implement a new assessment called PARRC.

The pressure on teachers, students and administrators is enormous.

This sought to relieve pressure on teachers and create new roles and career pathways for support staff.

What's more, pressure on teachers to focus on and worry about the potential for every «bump, germ or bruise» limited children's freedom and distracted from «real issues».

And it applies awful pressure on teachers and schools to become test - prep factories.

«There's a lot of pressure on teachers that wasn't there before,» he said.

Valentine Mulholland, the head of policy at school leaders» union NAHT, said the research «paints a bleak picture of the workload pressures on both teachers and school leaders».

There are huge pressure on teachers to always perform and keep calm as well.

«In terms of equity — when you look at what is happening in our urban districts, we're getting an extremely narrow curriculum because of the pressure on teachers to focus on tested subjects.»

But the stakes in this second year under the new system will only be higher, as the law gives school districts the power to bring tenure charges against teachers who don't fare well in a second consecutive year, putting new pressures on teachers and placing new responsibility on schools.

This, in large part, is why district administrators put pressure on their teachers to do more to increase test performance.