Sentences with phrase «qualified teacher provision»

NCLB's Highly Qualified Teacher provision was a well - intentioned mistake.

Michael J. Petrilli, the vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and a former education department official under Spellings, takes this view: «Nothing was happening on the Highly Qualified Teacher provision years ago and she's finally enforcing it, so she's built up credibility with people who care about that provision.

Get the feds out of the teacher business: The Highly Qualified Teacher provision was a well - intentioned mistake.

«It's really been the most screwed - up implementation of the law,» declares Joel Packer, the National Education Association's chief lobbyist on NCLB, of the highly qualified teacher provisions.

The highly qualified teacher provisions have been helpful but are primitive.

Hickok: I know there is language that limits how long a substitute teacher can be in a classroom before the actual qualified teacher provisions kick in.

A decade ago, Miller pushed for the ill - fated Highly Qualified Teachers provision of No Child Left Behind (which now threatens to kill off Teach for America in his own state).

The regulations talk about alternative certification as satisfying the qualified teacher provisions if certain things are done: quality pre-service; ongoing work with existing teachers, mentors, or master teachers while in the classroom; and earning certification no more than three years after entering a classroom.

A significant number of amendments focused on the bill's highly qualified teacher provisions, which have flown under the radar in light of more dramatic changes to the legislation's accountability components.

But Senator Bernie Sanders's (I - VT) proposal to add some teeth to the bill's highly qualified teacher provisions by requiring districts to provide mentoring and professional development to teachers who have not completed a state - approved teacher preparation program and obtained full certification was rejected out of concerns that it would harm Teach For America and other alternative certification programs.

A number of recent policy initiatives, including NCLB's highly qualified teacher provisions, have sought to improve the qualifications of teachers and their distribution across schools.

Because of No Child Left Behind (2001) and its Highly Qualified Teachers provision, states across the country lowered their requirements for teachers with content knowledge to become certified and opened the door to a broad array of AC routes (Baines, 2010).

Not exact matches

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

To provide the best pre-school provision for parents and children the Government needs to restore the necessity for a qualified teacher to be employed in maintained settings».

Commenting on an interview given to the Daily Mail newspaper by Children's Minister Elizabeth Truss in which she describes talks of «chaotic» pre-school provision and calls for them to take on more qualified staff, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» unioTeachers, the largest teachers» unioteachers» union, said:

«The NASUWT raised questions about the provision of study leave and additional non-contact time for newly qualified teachers who chose to pursue the Masters qualification, about the impact that the scheme could have on teacher workload and working hours for newly qualified teachers, the external mentors and the school workforce generally, and about the costs associated with the scheme.

«It is of course important for parents to have every confidence in the SEN [special educational needs] provision their children receive and to know that their child is being taught by fully qualified teachers.

First on the teacher - provision punch list: How do we move from the current definitionof «highly qualified teacher,» whichmost people agree is limiting and limited, toone that more accurately reflects a teacher «sexperience, content knowledge, and, perhapsmost importantly, his or her ability to educateall students to high standards?

Rotherham observes that there are some broadly supported provisions in the administration's waiver package, such as getting rid of NCLB's «highly qualified teacher rules,» which many states «have gamed... to the point of meaninglessness.»

Given that the «highly qualified teacher» provision is so out of touch, I would convene a panel of expert teachers to review it.

EdNext: Observers have noted that many states appear to be complying with NCLB's highly qualified teacher (HQT) provision mostly through creative bookkeeping, and are doing no more than they must when it comes to public - school choice or supplemental services.

It scraps ESEA's misguided «highly qualified teachers» provision and Duncan's teacher evaluation mandate.

The basics of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- adequate yearly progress benchmarks, provision of supplemental services, and a «highly qualified» teacher in every classroom — are known.

Private schools that participate in Title I's equitable services provision specifically are not subject to ESEA's Highly Qualified Teacher (HQT) requirement nor to the law's Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandate.

Formed in reaction to a provision that allowed teachers in training to be identified under federal law as «highly qualified» and concentrated in low - income, high need schools, this group has developed a new, comprehensive framework for teaching quality that will allow the nation to put a fully - prepared and effective educator in every classroom and school.

Revision of the twenty - year old consent decree was driven by the state's desire to comply with the «highly qualified teacher» provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

The provision seeks to reverse the recent federal appeals court ruling these parents obtained, which held that the regulation patently violated NCLB's unambiguous requirement that only fully prepared teachers be deemed «highly qualified» and that, as such, teachers still in - training must be publicly disclosed and not concentrated in low - income, high - minority schools.

Under the teacher quality provisions of NCLB, states have to show on their state, district, and school report cards the percent of teachers meeting the state's definition of «highly qualified.»

In recent years, the «highly qualified teacher» provision of No Child Left Behind has focused the debate more on teacher credentials than on the conditions that can help teachers succeed.

Individualized education program team (IEP Team)-- A team charged with developing, reviewing and revising a student's individualized education program and consisting of the parent s, the student (if appropriate), the student's regular education teacher and special education teacher, a representative of the school division qualified to supervise the provision of services, and an individual who can interpret the instructional implications of evaluation results.

In response, Gill is launching The Difference, a teacher training programme in which teachers qualified for least three years train in an alternative provision unit before returning to a leadership roles in a mainstream school.

There are 10 NCLB provisions (DOC) U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will consider waiving, among them the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, the sanctions for low - performing schools, the 20 percent set - aside for school choice and tutoring, and highly qualified teacher improvement plans.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will waive 10 NCLB provisions — including the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, sanctions for low - performing schools, the 20 percent set - aside for school choice and tutoring, and highly qualified teacher improvement plans — for states that establish higher standards, create differentiated accountability systems, promote teacher effectiveness, and reduce paperwork burdens.

One of the provisions eliminated by the Every Student Succeeds Act was the former NCLB requirement for all teachers of core academic subjects to be «highly qualified.»

ESSA diverges from both NCLB and ESEA waivers regarding teacher quality provisions by eliminating the federal role in teacher evaluation processes and the «highly qualified teacher» requirement.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

ESSA contains several provisions which impact «highly qualified teacher» (HQT) requirements beginning with the 2016 - 2017 school year.

Teacher quality was once again highlighted in No Child Left Behind (NCLB)(2001), which stressed teacher accountability and included provisions that teachers must be «highly qualified» in the subject areas they teach (Redding & Smith,Teacher quality was once again highlighted in No Child Left Behind (NCLB)(2001), which stressed teacher accountability and included provisions that teachers must be «highly qualified» in the subject areas they teach (Redding & Smith,teacher accountability and included provisions that teachers must be «highly qualified» in the subject areas they teach (Redding & Smith, 2016).

Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO): a qualified teacher in a school or nursery who has responsibility for co-ordinating the special educational needs provision.