Sentences with phrase «reward some teachers over»

She rejected any suggestion an Evidence Institute would be used to reward some teachers over others.

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I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

Currently in a disagreement with my child's preschool teachers over offering ice cream as a reward for «dry pants» in the classroom.

-LSB-...] These are just a few examples of the junk food rewards my kids have received over the years from teachers in their classrooms.

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

Money from a $ 26 million reward fund, averaging about $ 2,000 a teacher, will be divided among the 38 percent of the state's schools that improved by more than 10 percent on certain measures over the past two years.

Generally, school autonomy seems to have a positive impact — but only when schools are given extensive decision - making powers over the purchase of supplies, the hiring and rewarding of teachers, and the choosing of instructional methods.

The risk is that teachers and schools may be wrongfully rewarded or punished because value - added techniques either over - or underestimated their students» learning gains.

This process begins with the highlighting of places, whether in the US or abroad, where teaching is seen as an attractive profession including sensitive and profession - appropriate measures of which candidates are promising; excellent training given over a number of years, without candidates having to acquire significant debt; placement of apprentice teachers in settings where they can be expertly inducted into the profession; expert and appealing professional development where teachers feel that they are continuing to acquire new and needed skills; and career paths that are multi-faceted and rewarding.

Founded in 1997, The Sticker Factory has become UK's leading designers and producers of reward stickers for teachers, TAs, schools, education professionals, healthcare professionals and more over the past 20 years.

With over 150 resources to model, scaffold, plan, play, assess and reward, the Ultimate Resource Library has everything teachers need to take their students» writing to their next level.

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones.

Over the past decade California has systematically eliminated a range of programs intended to reward some of its highest - performing teachers.

Party leader Nick Clegg told the Daily Mail online that «quite a fierce debate» had taken place in government over the issue and suggested that the scope to reward the best teachers had been «resisted» by the Conservatives.

Even with strong majorities favoring time to adjust, over three - quarters (78 %) of voters believe teachers should continue to be evaluated based in part on test scores during the transition with 26 % believing those evaluations should be used only to reward good work or provide guidance to improve teaching and 19 % agreeing only if the evaluations are not used to hire or fire teachers.

Leaders also have shared with me how over the past few years, they've seen good teachers become great, talented new teachers come to their district, and excellent teachers rewarded and recognized for their skills.

Vergara argues that lifetime tenure — awarded after less than two years in the classroom, dismissal procedures that make it nearly impossible to fire incompetent teachers, and «last in first out» layoff policies that reward seniority over merit, have harmed California's children.

Young teachers today say that they are less motivated than previous generations by a career in which their work responsibilities do not change over the course of their employment.16 Moreover, young teachers want to receive frequent feedback on their teaching, and they want to be rewarded for proving their ability to help students learn.17 Career pathways can provide young teachers with the feedback and mentorship that they report are lacking.18 Additional pathways can provide opportunities for these teachers to grow and excel, which is critical in order to increase student achievement and retain great teachers.

We've placed over 32,000 teachers and administrators in exciting, rewarding positions at independent schools all over the world.

The decision to lengthen the school day and year, to evaluate teacher effectiveness by examining student performance over time, and to reward teachers through referring to this performance, all first appeared in charter schools.

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

According to Nonprofit Quarterly, the Gates Foundation is now threatening to pull an unprecedented $ 40 million grant from Pittsburgh's Public Schools «because the foundation is upset with the lack of an agreement between the school district and the teachers» union over a core element of the grant» — the use of test scores to measure teachers» value - added and to «reward exceptional teachers and retrain those who don't make the grade.»

«So, when you start rewarding one teacher over another, it causes disruption.»

The Australian Education Union said it is important any evidence database is not used in a punitive way or to reward some teachers financially over others.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan would have $ 5 billion under the stimulus bill to back new approaches to improve schools, a fund that could prod states to raise standards and reward top teachers as the Obama administration presides over a massive infusion of federal education aid.

For example, married teachers Grant and Bonnie Sinclair, who travel over every school break and blog at WanderFilledLife.com, prefer earning travel rewards.

Over the years of being a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, I have found it rewarding to stimulate interest in a range of relevant topics such as working with traumatized children, play therapy and post-traumatic play, family play therapy, relational treatments, among others.