Sentences with phrase «retaining teachers at all levels»

Regional and remote areas tend to experience greater difficulty attracting and retaining teachers at all levels than do their metropolitan counterparts.

Not exact matches

The chart below shows the difference in district retention rates for districts who were able to retain highly effective teachers at a higher rate (teachers with a level 4 or 5 rating) and districts who retained lower performing teachers (teachers with a level 1, 2, or 3 rating) at a higher rate.

Oberman says John Morse has also successfully followed California state standards and trained and retained teachers at an impressive level.

Like all public workers, teachers should be paid at a level commensurate with the market value of their skills, which represents the compensation needed to attract and retain a given set of workers.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

Leaders within the education system are painfully aware of the challenges of recruiting and retaining high quality teachers, both at primary and secondary level.

Dorothy Strickland, retired professor of Rutgers University and a member of the state board of education, said she is optimistic about the findings, which show the majority of teachers, three - quarters, were rated at the levels required to retain their tenure.

The authors also «showcase and report available data on a variety of ways this problem is being tackled at the pre-service and teacher credentialing levels and examine how a diverse and high - quality teaching force can be retained and thrive.»