Sentences with phrase «rewarding better teachers with»

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.

That is why we have given all heads much greater flexibility to set staff pay and reward their best teachers with a pay rise.»

«Today a single Wake County judge suppressed the will of voters statewide who elected representatives to improve public education and reward our best teachers with raises,» Berger's statement said.

Not exact matches

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).

On the one hand, you could argue that a restaurant voucher is better than a teacher simply handing out junk food rewards since, with a voucher, some intervening parental oversight is required.

But because their teachers reward them with candy on an almost daily basis (especially my 4 - year - old), and there is a birthday party nearly every week (or so it seems), I don't want them to have much sugary stuff at home even though I know mine is better.

I wish teacher's (especially of the little ones) realized that the best reward they could give their students is some special time with them, and that it doesn't ever need to be about food.

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.

This year we are implementing a new performance - management framework for teachers that will provide them with comprehensive data on areas of strength and areas that need development, as well as reward high - performing teachers with bonuses as large as $ 14,000.

«Why not reward teachers who use technology by providing them with better equipment, software, and so on, as they show an increased interest and proficiency?

If your school has the resources, reward those teachers with an extra professional day, a coveted software program, museum tickets, or admission to a local education conference as well.

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.

It is a pleasure to give the profession its due and to be reminded of a bit of universal wisdom that teachers know better than most: working for the greatest good often demands the greatest effort — and it is often rewarded with equal satisfaction.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

Teachers just need to fill in the «IOU» circle with the reward being given (we use VIVOs and just fill in IOU 10 Vivos, but this could easily be house points, commendations etc.) A tangible method of rewarding your students - they do something good, they something immediately.

Even a teacher entering the profession with a master's degree is better off under the evidence - based salary schedule, even though it pays no reward for the advanced degree.

Despite some success in rewarding teachers for producing better student outcomes, the career ladder was a target of the same criticisms that challenge virtually all attempts to tinker with systems of teachers» compensation.

The problem with annual performance reviews, though, is that they offer no rewards to those who perform well as teachers and few consequences for those who perform badly.

The ladder is rated 1 - 10 (10 is highest), the teacher rates how well the pupils behaved in the lesson and mark on a check card, when the check card is filled, they earn a reward (either individual or with the class).

Public school teachers, as well, tend to stay in the profession because they feel rewarded when working with students — i.e., they are «intrinsically motivated» — rather than because they are highly paid.

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 current conversation suggests that if we can just find a way to get rid of those bad teachers in our ranks, and reward those good teachers, then all will be well with the world.

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.

But after giving five years of 14 - hour workdays in a high - stakes environment with high expectations and little reward, all of the best teachers, one by one, left during my two - year tenure there.

You have an interesting situation with a Democratic administration and a Democrat as secretary of education saying that [teachers unions] have to give and you have to have some way of rewarding good teachers.

The 129 likes and 23 congratulating comments on Facebook left me with warm fuzzies, but as I sit and reflect on the most rewarding part of this renewal journey, I have to admit that the ways that I've become a better teacher through completing the National Board certification and the renewal process mean the most.

Even if the curricula is aligned with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to high expectations (as well as rewarded and punished accordingly).

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.

Feller reports on the establishment, growing pains, and initial good results of the Teacher Leader Cohort plan, which uses financial and other rewards to encourage teachers with success at raising student achievement to transfer — in cohorts — into the lowest - performing schools in the district.

In many places, officials are saying that teachers should be evaluated in part on how well they are teaching, with good teachers being rewarded.

The city also benefited from Mr. Klein's role as a national symbol of school reform, Ms. Tisch said, with private donors giving millions of dollars to help create new projects and experiments, like teacher performance bonuses and cash rewards for students who did well on exams.

That's why Teach Plus is offering a home for teachers interested in an organization, as Coggins puts it, «with a bias toward high performers» — eduspeak for wanting to support and reward the best rather than focus on defending the worst.

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.

With the new flexibility afforded districts to submit an alternative salary schedule, they can also choose to reward teachers financially upon attaining tenure status as well as for continuing to maintain and / or grow in effectively helping students gain in their learning.

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.

The candidates also disagree on key issues, including how to improve low - achieving campuses, how to measure teacher quality, and whether to reward good teachers and principals with bonuses.

At Imagine South Vero, the parents, teachers, and support staff are all part of a unified family working hard to ensure the safety and well - being of all students while providing them with a challenging and rewarding educational experience.

Teachers and parents charge that NCLB encourages, and rewards, teaching children to score well on the test, rather than teaching with a primary goal of learning.

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.

The new way we structure testing and reward and punish people for their actions with regard to that testing is better for students — and even teachers — in the long run.

Regardless of the reason, teacher quality is directly correlated with student outcomes, and for that reason and that reason alone, teachers and schools should be free to not only make employment agreements, but also engage in rewards for work well done.

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.»

Rhee says teachers who consistently don't add value should be fired; those who do well should be rewarded with six - figure salaries.

A second development, emerging in the early 1990s, focused on the «high stakes» elements of educational policy, or the use of sanctions and rewards associated with how well the school / teacher / student performed.

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.

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The student will be rewarded with computer time if the teacher notices him working well in a group.