Sentences with phrase «reward the best teachers more»

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Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

But the government was ridiculed last night for plans to reward good pupil behaviour with gifts and for suggesting to teachers that they should praise pupils five times more than they criticise them.

It's too bad we can't use the money we are wasting on meeting arbitrary numbers and divert it to where it will do more good, such as rewarding our best teachers with the pay they deserve.

«Teacher retention and a reward systems that values staff rather than penalising them are key to the long term and sustainable success of a good education system and more Trusts, as well the Secretary of State, should take note of the approach introduced at TSAT schools.»

If teacher spend more time rewarding good behavior, those who misbehave might learn that by behaving they earn even more attention than by misbehaving.

Approved by the district's board of education last week, the plan is expected to put millions more dollars into rewards for teachers whose students show better - than - average improvement compared with similar groups of students.

Its 40 or so recommendations focused on five areas: stronger content; higher standards and expectations; more time for learning, more effectively used; better prepared, rewarded, and respected teachers; and responsible national, state, and local leadership.

To make it easier for schools to pay teachers more for teaching well, just as colleges do, Congress should encourage the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and other efforts to reward outstanding teachers.

Flying under the radar will be the reform choices of the few creative school boards that are willing to make changes in order to reward and retain their best teachers and find ways to devote more money to the classroom.

Carla Tantillo also discourages teachers in the schools in which she works from using candy or small toys to reward students for good behavior, saying using yoga to control behavior has more long - term applications.

But any merit pay policy needs two components, conference participants concluded: The good teachers need to be rewarded, and the very ineffective ones need to be encouraged to find a more appropriate occupation.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

«The consequences have to be greater than the rewards, so having a few more kids pass the ISTEP versus losing their job, I think teachers would use their best judgment,» Spradlin says.

It also talks about rewarding the best teachers, giving... which will actually help to actually make teachers seem more professional and make them feel more professional, give them more prestige.

Here's what I told them: As a teacher, I would love for someone to ask me to imagine what it would be like to work in a place that ensures that all teachers have the chance to improve their craft, and be rewarded for getting better; a place that lets all teachers make the best use of their talents by focusing their time and energy on parts of their job that they do best; a place that lets great teachers multiply their impact by giving more students access to their teaching for more pay; and a place that offers excellent teachers leadership roles that are not far removed from students.

It starts with California's nearly 300,000 teachers, paying more to those willing to work in the toughest schools, rewarding the best performers and getting rid of the worst.

More of the best teachers will stay in the profession if they are rewarded, and more promising young people will be drawn to teaching as a carMore of the best teachers will stay in the profession if they are rewarded, and more promising young people will be drawn to teaching as a carmore promising young people will be drawn to teaching as a career.

We consider the available evidence in more detail in order to establish the case for significantly higher pay for teachers as a necessary step in addressing the teacher supply crisis, establishing fair levels of reward for teachers and supporting the delivery of the best possible education for pupils.

Schools where students performed well were rewarded with more money, and where students performed poorly, teachers and administrators could be fired by an outside authority.

In some variations, schools can pay all teachers more, while further rewarding the best.

addressed the launch of the new College of Teaching earlier this year, she wants to see all teachers supported to become the best professionals they possibly can be, and to make teaching an even more attractive and rewarding profession to join.»

Here's a prediction: Digital developers whose products are used to enable excellent teachers to reach more students successfully will be rewarded with positive results and avoid the dreaded «Cheaper but No Better» headlines.

«This is why we are not only tackling excessive teacher workload but have also given head teachers the freedom to pay good teachers more, meaning the best teachers can access greater rewards earlier in their careers.»

«Lots and lots of schools reward incompetence so that the least effective teachers get the easiest class... whereas if you're good, you get more piled on your plate,» Frazin says.

Shana Frazin, who taught elementary school in California before becoming a staff developer with the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, says the best principals find ways to reward teachers who work harder and are more effective thanTeachers College, says the best principals find ways to reward teachers who work harder and are more effective thanteachers who work harder and are more effective than others.

As of 2012, the vast majority of districts still had a salary schedule in place, and only 11 percent of districts used pay incentives to reward teachers for excellent performance, though the practice is increasing.78 And as states develop more effective ways to measure teacher quality, districts should be better able to incorporate performance data when making compensation decisions.

In this report Harris makes «Recommendations to Improve the Louisiana System of Accountability for Teachers, Leaders, Schools, and Districts,» the main one being that the state focus «more on student learning or growth --[by] specifically, calculating the predicted test scores and rewarding schools based on how well students do compared with those predictions.»

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

The Child Care WAGE$ ® Project is designed to provide children more stable relationships with better educated teachers by rewarding teacher education and continuity of care.