Sentences with phrase «raising teacher effectiveness»

There remains, as Klein is the first to remind us, vast work still to be done on raising teacher effectiveness, on improving school leadership, and on removing the blight posed by our weakest schools.

Not exact matches

I do remind folks that NCLB had its origins in legislation passed in Texas during the 1980s (under then - Gov Mark White) where, in exchange for teacher raises / bonuses, standardized tests were instituted to «measure» teacher «effectiveness».

suggests that class size reduction policies are not the best option in terms of value for money to raising pupil attainment, compared to others such as increasing teacher effectiveness.

And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

Congress should also provide incentives to states where standards are really low to raise the standards, and provide incentives to states to develop meaningful measures of teacher effectiveness.

Of course, the effects of moving to a system of compensation based on assessment by principals depend on the relative importance they place on a teacher's ability to raise standardized test scores when making overall assessments of teachers» effectiveness.

Finally, we need many more studies evaluating the ways in which better feedback can be paired with targeted development investments to raise teachers» effectiveness in improving student outcomes.

The answer lies in raising the effectiveness of classroom teaching, which in turn depends on teachers with high levels of mathematics and science knowledge implementing proven teaching strategies.

For the best principals, the rate of teacher turnover is highest in grades in which teachers are least effective, supporting the belief that improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.

Using student data to assess teachers raises a number of thorny objections, as unions and individual teachers balk at using student test scores alone to drive decisions on teacher effectiveness.

While measures of teachers» general academic skills, such as SAT scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.

The ubiquity of «satisfactory» ratings stands in contrast to a rapidly growing body of research that examines differences in teachers» effectiveness at raising student achievement.

Our main analysis below examines the degree to which these summary indices predict a teacher's effectiveness in raising student achievement.

The impact of even a slightly better - than - average quality teacher — one whose effectiveness ranks at the 60th percentile, for example — still has significant economic results, raising an individual student's lifetime earnings by $ 5,300, or a class of 20 students» aggregate lifetime earnings by a total of $ 106,000.

However, just as athletes use video analysis to study the strategies of a star athlete on the opposing team or the effectiveness of a winning play on the field, I regularly refined my practice by watching teachers, in real time, execute instructional strategies that resulted in their students» eyebrows raising and their mouths dropping open because a light bulb had just been turned on in their minds.

If teachers find it easier to teach a homogeneous group of students, tracking could enhance school effectiveness and raise test scores of both low - and high - ability students.

«These grants will go far in providing resources to help raise student achievement and improve teacher effectiveness.»

The present analysis of teacher effectiveness raises other questions beyond certification.

• Good principals are likely to make more personnel changes in grade levels where students are under - performing, supporting the belief that «improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.»

«Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: Can classroom observations identify practices that raise achievement?»

With the knowledge that instructional leadership is the primary engine behind teacher effectiveness, the authors demonstrate how to support classroom practices that raise student achievement.

Learning Sciences International has worked extensively to articulate the Marzano teacher evaluation model for aligned focus on raising student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

All value - added methods aim to estimate a teacher's effectiveness in raising students» standardized test scores.

It concluded that «class size reduction policies are not the best option in terms of value for money to raising pupil attainment, compared to others such as increasing teacher effectiveness».

Value - added assesses a teacher's effectiveness at raising students» performance on standardized tests compared with how they did in previous years.

The Times began publishing articles in August using value - added analysis to estimate the effectiveness of thousands of district teachers in raising test scores.

In exchange for this flexibility, these states have agreed to raise standards, improve accountability, and undertake essential reforms to improve teacher effectiveness.

«We must improve the supply and effectiveness of teachers if we are to raise standards, turn around low - performing schools, increase innovation, and remain internationally competitive,»

We are paid using the same antiquated system established four decades ago: incremental salary increases with every new contract, automatic raises for time in the classroom regardless of our success, and rewards for graduate school classes that are required by law but have shown no correlation with teacher effectiveness.

With the recent Race to the Top mandates, evaluation systems may be more rigorous than ever, though they often judge teachers by a rigidly and often inaccurate value - added measure of their effectiveness in raising test scores (Özek & Xu, 2015; Raudenbush, 2015).

Teachers objected to having educators» names and ratings published, and researchers raised questions about the validity of the statistical method used to determine teacher effectiveness: value - added analysis.

The release was prompted by requests from several news organizations and follows a series of Los Angeles Times stories in August that analyzed 6,000 elementary school teachers» effectiveness in raising students» math and English scores.

The National Education Association president, Dennis Van Roekel, also issued a statement, «Collaboration and multilevel integration are important when it comes to transforming the teaching profession... These grants will go far in providing resources to help raise student achievement and improve teacher effectiveness.

As part of the second round of requests, all states presented plans to raise standards, improve accountability, and support reforms to improve principal and teacher effectiveness.

By focusing attention on the effectiveness of teachers in raising student achievement, these progressive states are setting the stage for U.S. schools to climb out of their doldrums and to compete with the top schools around the developed countries of the world.

``... if pay were more aligned with both effectiveness and experience, it would be quite possible to see overall salaries of teachers raised significantly from current levels — reflecting their enormous impact on students, on the incomes of students and on economic growth.»

Changing the current evaluation system to focus on improved student outcomes, including objective measures of student growth, is critical to improving teacher effectiveness, raising student achievement, and meeting the objectives of the federal «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.»

Federal reviewers of an earlier version of Utah's plan raised concerns about state policies that make it difficult to discern teacher effectiveness.

... the continuous improvement of teacher and principal effectiveness must be an integral part of any efforts aimed at raising student achievement.

The research presented above raises two concerns for states: 1) Is the value - added for teachers from one test providing an adequate measure of the teacher's contributions to learning, and how can the data be used to provide the most accurate measure of teacher effectiveness?

By John Clark Just before the election, more than 100 educators descended upon the U.S. Department of Education — not to lobby for better policy, but to work in conjunction with the Department to raise the bars on enrollment and effectiveness from teacher preparation programs; to find new ways to recruit and prepare the next -LSB-...]

Although research shows that BTR graduates are initially not more effective at raising student test scores than other new teachers, the effectiveness of BTR graduates improves rapidly over time, and by their fourth and fifth years in the classroom, BTR graduates outperform other veteran teachers.70 Further, principals are very satisfied with the performance of former residents in their building: A recent survey conducted by BTR found that 97 percent of principals who employ teachers who are alumni of BTR «would recommend hiring a BTR graduate to a colleague.»

I find this to be highly disturbing and it raises red flags about evaluating the effectiveness of her teachers.

As such, coaching in schools can increase teacher professionalism and raise the bar of teacher effectiveness to a continuous and collective striving for excellence.

This work argues the importance of the noncognitive for student life outcomes, reviews the little we know about how to improve student academic perseverance and mindset, and raises questions about our nation's current measures of teacher effectiveness.

If we, as a nation, are to raise achievement for all students, we must be prepared to invest where it matters most: in leading for teacher effectiveness.