Sentences with phrase «recruit new teachers who»

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

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A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

Teach For America, which Mr. Steffensen cites as an example of society's desire for quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortages.

This report offers a new vision of teacher career pathways that holds promise for recruiting and retaining excellent teachers who further student learning, providing consistent access to excellent teachers.

Brother Joseph M. Shields, who recruits teachers for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, says he was «desperate» when he went to search for teachers on the Emerald Isle.

Educational consultant Lisa Dabbs, who supports pre-service and new teachers, and Rachel Gleischman from TNTP, which helps districts and states recruit and train new teachers, will discuss what prospective teachers need to look for during the job search to land in a supportive school environment.

The New Teacher Project finds its efforts to help districts recruit sorely needed instructors undercut by local personnel officials who routinely object to these outsiders or understate the cost of district recruiting (creating inaccurate comparisons for TNTP» s pricing).

Between 2004 and 2009, Cerf was Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education where he led organizational strategy, innovation, labor relations, and all matters pertaining to recruiting, supporting, developing, and evaluating the nearly 80,000 teachers and 1,450 principals who work in the nation's largest school district.

First, the teachers it recruits are in fact good teachers who produce achievement gains for students that match or exceed those accomplished by other new teachers who have been prepared in other ways.

Furthermore, millions of dollars are wasted in recruiting and orienting new teachers each year, not to mention the tragic effects on students taught by those who do not know how to teach.

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In contrast, if a large school district wants to redesign its processes for recruiting new teachers by changing when applications are due and offers of employment are made, it would be exceedingly rare if it either had anyone on staff or could find anyone in a local university who would be interested and able to carry out an experiment on the issue.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit effective new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

«Our goal was to be number one in new teacher pay, to be able to recruit new teachers especially in the math and sciences,» said Eberhart, who is retired from the school system but served until recently on the Maryland State School Board.

In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, have developed alternative certification programs with a math immersion component to recruit otherwise well - qualified candidates who do not have undergraduate majors in math.

She wants exam boards to think about how to retain those teachers who have marked papers in the past too, rather than just focusing on recruiting new examiners.

Recruiting and supporting new teachers: Stickel mentioned that, in the next five years, the state will need 300,000 teachers to replace those who are retiring or leaving, as well as to meet new needs of a growing student population.

The TFA recruits were assigned to teach the students who didn't get into the magnet school, while the magnet school was staffed primarily with longer - term Windham teachers who were transferred from the other district schools to the new magnet.

The teacher dropout rate is certainly not new, but with the predicted looming teacher shortage, recruiting and retaining excellent teachers who are excited about and committed to teaching students in urban schools is more urgent than ever.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

Into this school has stepped a new head teacher, Nadia Paczuska, who was recruited through a scheme called Future Leaders.

I suggests recruiting exceptional retired teachers who lead by example three to four times a week, three hours a day; give them a stipend; and let them support new teacher.