Sentences with phrase «reduce teacher bias»

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This schedule set the year of first evaluation based on a teacher's year of hire, thus reducing the potential for bias that would arise if the timing of evaluation coincided with, for example, a favorable class assignment.

[4] Sometimes called selection bias, the problem is that student needs and parental resources are never directly accounted for in value - added measures, even though they might affect student learning and therefore reduce validity of teacher value - added estimates.

VAM, viewed as reducing bias and error, is increasingly used by states and districts as a major factor in teacher evaluation, retention, promotion, and compensation.

Location: Middle Tennessee / Nashville Priority: Appropriate and Equitable Resources and Supports Topic: Teacher and student voice on reducing discipline disparities Summary: The funding for the Oasis Center, MNPS, and PASSAGE builds on the previous grant cycle of work that focused on educating current MNPS teachers on cultural competency, and implicit bias in order to promote the equitable treatment of students in MNPS schools.

E4E teachers came to D.C. on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to share with Secretary DeVos that the Federal Department of Education has a critical role to play in protecting the civil rights of all students and as a result must continue to highlight the disparities that exist in school discipline, investigate districts where those disparities may be caused by bias, and support the implementation of strategies to reduce punitive discipline.

Isabel J. Morales, a social - studies teacher at Los Angeles High School of the Arts, cheered the new policy, anticipating it would reduce the frequency at which students get into trouble because of teacher biases.

In doing so, these research - based models are designed to assess teacher performance in a way that reduces bias favoring those teaching more educationally advantaged students.

That training and the subsequent home visits have been identified in a recent study by RTI International as an effective strategy for increasing teachers» sense of empathy and reducing their negative implicit biases, as well as helping parents to feel more positive and confident about interacting with school officials.

To reduce biases due to children's variable reading proficiencies, the teacher read each item aloud, and students were encouraged to ask questions as needed.

First, it is recognized explicitly in TRAILS that the use of information from multiple sources is important for obtaining a complete picture of behaviour and functioning and reducing mono - informant information bias.11, 12 Adolescents, their parents, teachers and peers all tend to observe partly different aspects of behaviour and functioning that are all likely to be relevant for understanding the presence, severity and determinants of mental health of adolescents.

That training and the subsequent home visits have been identified in a recent study by RTI International as an effective strategy for increasing teachers» sense of empathy and reducing their negative implicit biases, as well as helping parents to feel more positive and confident about interacting with school officials.

One recent theory - driven program in Sydney has delivered promising results in reducing intergroup bias, with a long - term impact — positive results sustained over a 12 month period — and as a pointer to how schools and teachers could reduce racism and discrimination via the curriculum.