Sentences with phrase «rewarding teachers accordingly»

Associating teacher evaluations with student performance, and rewarding teachers accordingly, is now all but taken for granted in state after state — and by prominent national figures, including President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Not exact matches

Behavior tracking programs allow teachers to track the classroom conduct of individual students and reward or punish it accordingly.

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).

Both unions continue to cling to an old - school model of employee - management relations that was never really a fit for the kind of work teachers do in the first place, no longer applies in the modern world of today, and definitely not workable in an age in which teacher performance can be measured, quantified and rewarded accordingly.

One main concern is reference bias, or the effect of survey respondents» reference points on their answers.37 Students, for example, attending competitive schools often rate themselves as having less self - control or as less hardworking because of their schools» rigorous expectations.38 Accordingly, some experts caution that using SEL to classify schools could ultimately punish high - performing schools while rewarding low - performing schools.39 Additionally, teachers may misinterpret behavior, erroneously rely on first impressions, or incorrectly equate their opinion of a student with the student's social - emotional skills.40

Accordingly, in - depth interviews with teachers show that teachers feel strongly connected with «their» students and talk about love and respect and the internal rewards they gain from close relationships with students (Hargreaves 2000).