Sentences with phrase «quality teaching profession»

As in countries such as Finland, the success of Canada's education system is due in no small part to the quality of its teaching profession and hence, to a recognition of the importance of continually investing in developing a high quality teaching profession for the benefit of all students.

Developing a high - quality teaching profession and creating inspirational leaders to help raise standards are among the aims of a new national education plan launched by Kirsty Williams today (Tues 26th Sept).

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

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«It is deeply debilitating and demoralising for teachers that any attempt to have a public debate about developing the teaching profession and the quality of teaching inevitably is hijacked by commentators and presented as a system to «root out incompetent teachers» and present our public education system as failing.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

The Washington, D.C. - based National Council on Teacher Quality has released its seventh annual State Teacher Policy Yearbook, which includes a 360 - degree analysis of every state law, rule and regulation that shapes the effectiveness of the teaching profession in New York.

As the nation's economy generated more and more well - paying jobs for the brightest college graduates, the number and quality of people entering the teaching profession began to decline.

Organised by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) and Brilliant Marketing Solutions Ltd, the ERAs continue to highlight the quality and diversity of educational products and resources, excellent educational establishments and the most inspiring members of the teaching profession, all working together to encourage the very best in education.

Florida's proposal is the wrong way to accomplish its goals, Sahlberg said in an email, «and certainly not found in any education systems that have succeeded to enhance the quality of teachers and attractiveness of the teaching profession.»»

Many agencies within the profession, including teachers and principals, are concerned about finding a balance between the compliance discourse that accompanies standards and regulation and the discourse of innovation that is central to the development of rigorous and high quality teaching and educational leadership.

A government spokesperson said: «Teaching is a hugely popular profession, and the number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all - time high.

Lessons learned from these systems include: (1) make teaching an attractive profession, (2) invest in continual learning, and (3) recruit and develop high - quality leadership.

The TAP is a systemic reform of public schools intended to attract, motivate, develop, and retain high - quality talent in the teaching profession.

And we would do well to shed the long - held assumption that we know how to help 3.5 million individual teachers become masters of their craft, instead giving consideration to some new ideas about what schools or the teaching profession itself might look like — ideas that could have a much broader impact on instructional quality.

Students also observed a deep commitment to the teaching profession, something that Finnish teachers attribute to the quality of their five - year training program and to the time they spend together each day to develop lessons and discuss student progress.

Even more controversial among teachers than Shanker's advocacy of high standards and public school choice was his embrace of a series of reforms intended to improve the quality of the teaching profession.

The awards highlight and reward the quality and diversity of educational products, resources and services as well as the best educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession.

According to this point of view, certification is necessary to ensure teacher quality, because teaching, like other professions (law, medicine, the sciences, and so forth), requires mastery of an esoteric body of substantive and pedagogical knowledge that can not be obtained without undergoing a rigorous training program.

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

The overall aim of the group is to understand how the pay and conditions structure contributes towards a highly motivated teaching profession and a high - quality education system.

«This new board will allow more specific consideration of how ITE programmes will raise the quality of provision — attracting the right people with the right qualifications and an aptitude for teaching, to enter the profession.

An NFL coach, a former player, and national teacher - quality expert discussed what the teaching profession can learn from the National Football League.

By requiring that all new teachers pass a rigorous bar of quality, there is a hope that American teaching could finally begin to resemble more established professions, in which we can trust that each entrant to the field has demonstrated the needed level of knowledge and skill,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

«Data shows us that existing pathways are not doing enough to attract high quality graduates into the teaching profession.

The purpose of the plan shall be to improve the quality of teaching and learning by ensuring that teachers participate in substantial professional development in order that they remain current with their profession and meet the learning needs of their students.

From my experience, however, there is another factor, not discussed in the article, which may have a comparable impact on the supply of high - quality teachers: The ease or ability to enter the teaching profession.

In contrast, teachers who have chosen to stay in the profession cite the quality of relationships among staff, a supportive principal, and opportunities to collaborate as among their most important reasons for continuing to teach.

WASHINGTON — The National Education Association (NEA), the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (National Board) announced today the national Teacher Leadership Initiative (TLI), a joint endeavor to develop a new generation of leaders within the teaching proTeaching Quality (CTQ) and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (National Board) announced today the national Teacher Leadership Initiative (TLI), a joint endeavor to develop a new generation of leaders within the teaching proTeaching Standards (National Board) announced today the national Teacher Leadership Initiative (TLI), a joint endeavor to develop a new generation of leaders within the teaching proteaching profession.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

There is no concern with the quality of education, the services to children, the dignity of the teaching profession — instead, Paul Vallas and reformers like him (Adamowski) have presided over the wreckage of some of the largest school districts in the nation.

All of our work, actions, decisions, and goals are driven by the belief that every child deserves an excellent education and, in order to achieve this, we must elevate the quality and prestige of the teaching profession.

Does the profession believe there is a link between the quality of teaching and the quality of student learning?

We must get better at attracting quality candidates into the teaching profession and we much get better at developing our novice teachers into future leaders of the profession for the long run.

Abstract: It is now commonly understood by researchers and educators that the quality of teaching matters to the lives and learning opportunities of children, and that the ways teachers are prepared for their profession therefore matters greatly.

Therefore, if teachers continue to stay in the profession, it is imperative that their instruction improves throughout their careers in order to raise the quality of teaching and learning for students.

«David Cameron has chosen to do what it is easy - score points off teachers and play with structures - rather than what is difficult but effective - work with the profession to improve the quality of teaching,» said Mr Hobby.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

We need a governor who believes in small class sizes, provides adequate resources for our most vulnerable students, respects the profession of teaching, opposes education driven by standardized tests and will fight for a high quality schools for all students throughout the State.»

Teachers teach for a host of reasons that go well beyond money, but the net effect of refusing to compensate educators is that the highest quality candidates become more difficult to attract and keep in the profession.

Holding teaching up as one of the highest status professions is perhaps the most critical policy objective for lawmakers in terms of improving the quality of education in the state.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

The idea of a teaching profession whose own practitioners have the authority to safeguard its quality and advance its excellence may seem a distant dream.

«His appointment will strengthen the NCTL's important work — ensuring we can continue to attract more high quality people into the teaching profession, further expand school led teacher training, and inspire ever greater standards of teaching and school leadership across the country.

Exploring «union reform» efforts in ways that expands the role of teacher voice in education reform efforts, incorporates social justice for students and families and strengthens the quality of the teaching profession

It stated that «it is vital that serving teachers have access to on - going, high - quality opportunities to update and refresh their skills and knowledge» and that «evidence - driven, career - long learning is the hallmark of top professions»; also identifying that «teachers report that far too much professional development is currently of poor quality and has little or no impact on improving the quality of their teaching» (Department for Education, 2014: 10).

Prioritizing quality over seniority in our teaching profession will not only make our schools stronger, it will make our union stronger.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

Teachers are grossly underpaid and in order to effectively recruit and retain quality educators, public schools must ensure that the teaching profession is financial viable to counter their high attrition rate in the public school system.NEA provides strategies to advance the teaching profession and ultimately improve student learning.

From Quicksand to Solid Ground, a 2015 report on the infrastructure required to support quality teaching by Jal Mehta and others at the Transforming Teaching Project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, notes, «Teachers tell us that there is something awry... Many teachers bemoan the flat structure of the profession and the lack of opportunities to help their colleagues without losing touch with the classroomteaching by Jal Mehta and others at the Transforming Teaching Project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, notes, «Teachers tell us that there is something awry... Many teachers bemoan the flat structure of the profession and the lack of opportunities to help their colleagues without losing touch with the classroomTeaching Project at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, notes, «Teachers tell us that there is something awry... Many teachers bemoan the flat structure of the profession and the lack of opportunities to help their colleagues without losing touch with the classroom.»