Sentences with phrase «replaced with new teachers»

And this has an impact on schools serving highly disadvantaged populations, because the more - experienced teachers who leave these schools are generally replaced with new teachers.

Not exact matches

The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

Your daughter was doing well with potty training until her preschool teacher was replaced with someone new.

The proposal to replace the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) with what is supposed to be a «new stronger accreditation», is nothing of the sort.

In March last year, the then General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower called for Ofsted to be replaced with «A new model of school accountability, one that involves school self - evaluation and is designed in discussion with the profession.»

Once again, the political winds on the Buffalo School Board are shifting, with Tuesday's election putting an end to the current majority and replacing it with a new one backed by the teachers union.

Once again, the political winds on the Buffalo School Board are shifting, with Tuesday's election putting an end to the current majority and replacing it with a new one backed by the teachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up foteachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up foTeachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up for grabs.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

According to Fitzpatrick and Lovenheim: «Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower - cost newer teachers.

In light of the New Year approaching, perhaps one goal of teachers of the gifted and teachers, who instruct the gifted in their classrooms, could be to replace educational malnourishment with academically, intellectually, and emotionally satisfying curriculum and experiences — allowing gifted children to thrive in school on a daily basis.

We have also replaced the overly prescriptive curriculum with a new slimmed down version that gives teachers the freedom to use the methods they know best that will inspire their pupils.»

On the one hand, retiring teachers are highly experienced, and they typically are replaced with much less experienced or new teachers.

As noted above, it could be that less - effective teachers are more likely to take advantage of ERI opportunities, causing test scores to rise as these teachers are replaced with newer ones.

The authors surmise that «It could be that less - effective teachers are more likely to take advantage of early retirement opportunities, causing test scores to rise as these teachers are replaced with newer ones.»

It may be coincidence, but in the midst of this very public debacle, several national AFT leaders were quietly involved with the negotiations between Baltimore City Schools and the local union which resulted in the just announced path - breaking new pay - for - performance contract that will replace the so - called «steps» and «lanes» of the traditional teacher contract.

What is remarkable is that Solmon, a former education dean, Jupp, a union leader, and Koppich, a «new union» advocate, agree that the debate is no longer whether to throw out the single salary schedule by which most of our teachers are paid, but what to replace it with.

According to a report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), bursaries for trainee teachers should be scrapped and replaced with a new system of forgivable fees.

In March 2004, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association approved a plan that would replace the current lockstep salary structure with a new salary schedule that rewards teachers who advance their teaching knowledge and skills in the subjects they teach, take on additional professional responsibilities, take on the toughest school assignments, and produce Teachers Association approved a plan that would replace the current lockstep salary structure with a new salary schedule that rewards teachers who advance their teaching knowledge and skills in the subjects they teach, take on additional professional responsibilities, take on the toughest school assignments, and produce teachers who advance their teaching knowledge and skills in the subjects they teach, take on additional professional responsibilities, take on the toughest school assignments, and produce results.

«Our review of initial teacher training (ITT) will ensure that trainee teachers can demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge across different subjects, and we have committed to go further by replacing qualified teacher status (QTS) with a new, stronger accreditation system to raise the bar for new teachers.»

And yet, with mobile devices replacing paper notebooks, this process has become increasingly complex as students (and teachers) struggle to apply previous strategies to new tools.

TEACHERS UNION SIDES WITH CHRIS CHRISTIE AND TRUMP ALLY: Even as the race to replace Gov. Chris Christie gets underway, the largest teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen TEACHERS UNION SIDES WITH CHRIS CHRISTIE AND TRUMP ALLY: Even as the race to replace Gov. Chris Christie gets underway, the largest teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen teachers union in New Jersey is mounting a scorched - earth campaign against an unlikely foe — Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney.

The district replaced the principal in November, and the teachers who testified said the school has improved considerably with more staff and the new administration.

If someone wanted to know the interpretation of an «effective» teacher in Washington D.C. all that would be needed would be to look at the characteristics of the new teachers that have been hired to replace the «defective» teachers with «effective» teachers.

Over the next five years, though, nearly half of those teachers will transfer to a new school or leave the profession altogether — only to be replaced with similarly fresh - faced teachers.

And in a meeting for South L.A. teachers, the area's leader, Ingrid Villeda, expressed concerns that the district would replace veteran instructors with inexperienced young ones — including some of the 500 new teachers headed to Los Angeles under a $ 20 - million grant to Teach for America, a nonprofit based in New Yonew teachers headed to Los Angeles under a $ 20 - million grant to Teach for America, a nonprofit based in New YoNew York.

New Hampshire has led the way by gaining federal approval to forego state standardized testing for a growing number of districts and replace them with teacher - generated, curriculum - embedded local and common performance assessments (Performance Assessment for Competency Education, or PACE).

In sum, they amount to less than a full sentence vow to replace Common Core «with better standards and curriculum developed by New York educators, with feedback and input from local teachers and parents, and greater control at the district level.»

According to the Las Vegas Sun, the district will replace about 1,000 teachers who are expected to resign or retire and hire 700 teachers for new positions and another 300 to expand preschool and kindergarten, with the help of $ 38.6 million saved in an arbitration ruling following a contract dispute with the teachers» union.

These standards should be revised and made even more rigorous over the next 3 - 5 years, not abandoned and replaced with an entirely new set of standards or North Carolina's schools, teachers, and students will face further uncertainty, expense, and implementation challenges.

and in New York they are laying off teachers and closing schools (so how is opting - out helping) my kid will opt out and next year we should have every kid opt - out — the data we get from the first year will help us in getting rid of all this crap — and then what do we replace it with??

Last week, Buncombe County joined a growing list of local school districts that have rejected the state's new plan to scrap teacher tenure, formally known as career status, and replace it with four - year temporary contracts for the top 25 percent of teachers, worth annual pay bonuses of $ 500 for each year of the contract.

But if schools replace retirees with new teachers, who earn lower salaries and who pay into state pension plans, these additional costs could be absorbed.

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower - cost newer teachers.

Just as corporations have revamped the private white collar workforce, replacing full - time, salaried personnel with «temporary» workers — a system in which some managers are officially temps — such are the prospects for teachers in the brave new corporate world of education «reform.»

Proponents point to positive benchmarks: District enrollment is growing; D.C. scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have improved (in some cases at a much faster rate than students in other large urban districts); and teachers who left the district after receiving low marks on D.C.'s new teacher evaluation system were replaced with higher - scoring teachers who boosted student achievement.

But with the current wave of education «reform» that teachers and students are enduring, I do believe that the predictions about mass retirings with not enough new teachers to replace them is the natural consequence of all the tampering in education by people who don't understand the landscape of schools and education.

Ultimately, 169 teachers were replaced with new applicants, many of whom were from the Teach for America program.

As of spring 2015, California schools replaced old tests with new assessments built to let parents and teachers know how well students are learning the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in today's world.

In our case, teachers and a teacher educator were not only hesitant to assume the position of expert in the wikispace, they were not especially comfortable with new digital epistemologies that replace traditional notions of truth with an emphasis on knowing how to construct knowledge collaboratively, gain or structure attention, invent new rules and conventions, or innovate successfully in contexts where there are few or no established rules (as also found by Knobel & Lankshear, 2006).

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

With the passage of the new federal law replacing the No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB), Connecticut now has a unique opportunity to rethink its flawed teacher evaluation system.

Backers of these reforms are particularly enamored of a new type of charter school represented by the Rocketship chain of schools — a low - budget operation that relies on young and inexperienced teachers rather than more veteran and expensive faculty, that reduces the curriculum to a near - exclusive focus on reading and math, and that replaces teachers with online learning and digital applications for a significant portion of the day.

Replacing them with even mediocre teachers — or actually just firing them without hiring anyone new, as Andrew Biggs has proposed — would help tens of thousands of California students.

With a significant number of teachers expected to retire over the next 10 years, there will be a substantial need for new teachers to replace them.

Traditional homework is replaced with videos, where the students are introduced to a new topic or concept (led by the teacher), and answer questions embedded within the video.

Teachers at Laurel Street are well aware that those state tests are about to be replaced with new and more ambitious tests pegged to the Common Core.

As in most districts, the new evaluations replace a system that involved minimal observation, did not account for test scores and graded teachers simply as satisfactory or unsatisfactory, with few ever getting the latter.

After doing detailed research, he wrote that by getting rid of as few as 5 to 7 percent of bottom performers, not newest hires, and replacing them with just average teachers, education achievement in the U.S. could reach that of Canada and Finland.

One teacher deliberately replaced a new textbook's problem - solving pages with the old worksheets he was accustomed to using.

The program included hiring nine new principals, replacing more than half of the targeted schools» teachers with new ones (who were screened for embodying the «no excuses» philosophy) and hiring 257 tutors.