«These are
qualities educators often finding lacking in their graduates,» Mowschenson says.
Not exact matches
Additionally, career and technical training
often fosters high -
quality collaboration between
educators and mentors with workforce demands from community businesses and organizations.
Because noncognitive
qualities like grit, curiosity, self - control, optimism, and conscientiousness are
often described, with some accuracy, as skills,
educators eager to develop these
qualities in their students quite naturally tend to treat them like the skills that we already know how to teach: reading, calculating, analyzing, and so on.
Data
quality and usefulness are
often questionable, leaving many state data systems function as de facto data morgues — used more
often in autopsies of failed programs than to help
educators and policymakers improve existing ones.
In our work with public school
educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question
often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the
quality of execution.
As a result, early childhood
quality improvement efforts
often include attention to
educator competencies such as instruction and relationship
quality.
However, states and school districts
often struggle to prepare and retain high -
quality educators, and in 2014, the Department of Education made having an equal distribution of effective teachers a national priority with its announcement of the «Excellent Educators for All» in
educators, and in 2014, the Department of Education made having an equal distribution of effective teachers a national priority with its announcement of the «Excellent
Educators for All» in
Educators for All» initiative.
And high -
quality candidates are being driven away from the field by school budget cuts imposed during the recession and the vitriol that
often surrounds the education reform debate,
educators say.
As part of this vision, the NTC scales high
quality teacher induction services to a national audience and works closely with
educators and policymakers nationwide to serve low - income students, minority students, and English language learners, who are otherwise
often taught by inexperienced teachers.
Others — especially high - achieving young people — may never even consider teaching because of the profession's relatively flat salary trajectory and because the professional work environment does not match that of other career paths.69 Teachers have less flexibility in their schedules compared with other professions, sometimes even struggling to find time to use the restroom.70 They also struggle to find time to collaborate with peers and
often have to pay for their own supplies.71 To ensure that high -
quality teacher candidates enter the profession and that excellent teachers stay in the profession, all
educators should be trained and compensated like the professionals they are.
As EKP
educators, consultants, and clinicians, we consider the following statement as foundational to effectively providing our services: Relating with others through sincere interest and in a caring way has been shown to improve
quality of life, while mindfully maintaining and managing the energy to do so is a bridge we
often cross in that direction.