Sentences with phrase «reducing teaching staff»

Schools have been faced with reducing teaching staff and have little or no money to increase teacher salaries or reward teachers with merit pay.

Business and finance managers are able to see the impact of any new budget scenarios, for example, increased or reduced teaching staff, at the click of a button.

A new study looks at which teachers in Charlotte, North Carolina were laid off when principals had to reduce their teaching staffs due to budget shortfalls.

Atlanta Public Schools reduced teaching staff 6.84 % between 2004 and 2010 when the student population declined a similar percentage from 51,315 to 47,944 students.

While teaching staff cuts are currently less significant in primary schools, 21 per cent of survey respondents reported that they have had to reduce teaching staff.

With a reduced teaching staff, ICEF Vista needed an instructional program that would provide intervention for students lacking basic foundational skills (such as simple addition and subtraction) and struggling to gain automaticity with basic calculations.

Not exact matches

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Some owners of private Senior High Schools in the Upper East Region, say they will soon lay off some of their teaching and non-teaching staff, following a successful implementation of the Free Senior High School policy, which has drastically reduced the intake in their schools.

Ideas to save money include shortening the school day as they can not afford to pay staff to teach lessons for a whole week, and other proposals include cutting teaching and support jobs and increasing class sizes while reducing the curriculum.

The DfE's guidelines agree that «reducing the costs of managing and supporting a school's ICT infrastructure can make more effective use of available in - house technical support» and that «staff may be refocused away from purely technical support of a multitude of in - house systems towards supporting the uptake of the ICT and thus delivering improved benefits for the teaching and learning outcomes.»

Support in the form of teaching assistants may be set to diminish further, with more than two - thirds (68 per cent) of the 64 per cent of school leaders who need to make savings in 2017 - 18 planning to reduce their support staff.

Strictly Education works uniquely in the education sector and possesses a deep knowledge and understanding of the environment within which schools, academies and MATs operate, giving clients the expert support they need to confidently meet their statutory obligations, reduce their administrative burden and enable their staff to focus on the students, teaching and learning.

Reduce staff overheads - The highest spend in most schools is on staff salaries, and when pressures are put on budgets, the thought of having to make teaching staff redundant to save money is a choice that no school wants to make.

«Our recommendation would be that every school district have specific, proven programs for reducing stress and for helping administrative, teaching, and support staff manage stress and improve communication and problem solving skills,» urged McCraty.

The second component is to have the school staff read my manual, A Revolutionary Guide to Reducing Aggression between Children, which explains what happens when adults make themselves responsible for stopping kids» fights, and teaches a less hysterical and more effective approach to the problem.

Schools can also contract with me directly to present my «Victim - Proof Your School» program that teaches students and staff how to reduce bullying.

Teaching pupils and staff about energy saving measures can reduce energy bills, add excitement to the curriculum, and teach young people good habits for a lifetime, writes Alex Green, school programme manager at sustainable energy charity, Ashden.

As a result, staff absence reduced and teaching improved.

In order to bridge this gap, the district reduced staff by cutting 15 teaching positions by qualification instead of seniority.

The Charter Schools also partnered with UChicago Medicine to create the Fresh, Fit, Fun program in order to teach children, parents, and staff about nutrition, improve access to fitness activities, and help educate teachers about reducing childhood obesity.

There were also reduced sick days requested by their teaching staff.

Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36

School leaders say that their budgets can not stretch to the level of rising costs and have warned of having to cut teaching staff or reduce school hours.

86 per cent of respondents had reduced the hours or numbers of teaching assistants in order to balance their budget for 2017 - 18, while 37 per cent reduced the number or hours of teaching staff.

«We know that the EBacc policy has reduced the breadth of subjects offered in many secondary schools, limited opportunities for students, and driven many staff out of the teaching profession.

Head teachers have written to Theresa May to warn that a funding crisis could make schools reduce hours, lay off staff or stop teaching some subjects.

Their focus groups revealed how Black teachers were reduced to disciplinarians instead of being respected for their ability to manage their classrooms; teachers who had a penchant for teaching and serving Black students well found themselves restricted to only teaching Black students; and teachers who put in extra time and effort still weren't heard in staff meetings.

Rocketship (see Barbara Miner's report from our new Save Our Schools issue) uses computer programs to teach children for a significant portion of the day, and eschews «extras» like school librarians, art, gym, and social studies, which further reduce staff costs.

«I have made cuts in every single area apart from teaching staff and we're not prepared to reduce staffing hours to provide free school lunches.»

They asked their local MPs how they should cut spending, whether they should lay off teaching staff, reduce school hours or close counselling services.

Create and support committees to increase financial support to schools, increase teaching staff and reduce class size.?

«I can't imagine we'd reduce the effectiveness of the teaching staff here,» he said.

Teaching staff to avoid unsafe behaviors and situations helps reduce the likelihood of injuries.

There is not enough money in any nation's coffers to afford to mandate both high compensation and reduced teaching load and, at the same time, very small class sizes and a school staff that is twice the size of the professional teaching staff.

Over the last decade, Hartford started (and ended) programs and neoliberal policies such as school closures, staff reconstitution, principal «autonomy», privatization, hyper - accountability, reduced economic security for teachers, preferential hiring for inexperienced and mostly white Teach for America participants, intradistrict and interdistrict school choice.

Under Malloy's approach and policies, cities and towns like Bridgeport, Hartford, Windham and New London are reducing teaching and support staff and dramatically increasing the number of standardized tests the children are forced to take.

Other options in the administration category include cutting up to 11 positions in the Teaching and Learning division; reducing clerical support in student services; reducing classified staff in community relations and the business office; and suspending the mentor - teacher program.

Dog Playgroup Grants: $ 31,000 (mentorship) and $ 50,000 (play - yard renovation) We once again partnered with Dogs Playing for Life, which teaches shelter staff and volunteers how to conduct safe dog playgroups that have proven to be remarkably effective at reducing length of stay for shelter dogs by decreasing stress behaviors and allowing staff to get a more accurate assessment of dogs» personalities.

My role was then reduced to that of a student teaching assistant: Marking student papers for other staff — junior staff.

Teaching your staff the following surfing «don'ts» will help you reduce cyber-related surfing risks, and reduce the likelihood of a malware infection:

Example 14: You should hire me because I have broad knowledge and experience in software design, and with my exceptional teaching skills, I will provide quality training to new staff, which will reduce external training programs and cost to the company.

The program teaches staff to develop and use their management and relationship skills to reduce tension, and create and maintain a calm and safe environment for all.

Other strategies included reducing the number of sessional staff, ensuring the course adhered to the university quality improvement processes, and introducing an 80 credit course prerequisite, so that students already have some knowledge when they come to the course about major capabilities taught in the course such as respect, safety, leadership, reflection and advocacy.