Sentences with phrase «shows teacher quality»

This was sometimes due to small pupil numbers, but says it shows teacher quality not necessarily affected by ability mix.

His philosophy reflects research showing teacher quality is the most important in - school factor affecting student learning.

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As Kevin Concannon, the USDA's Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services recently told me, «A quality and nutritious school meal program can insure that all of the investments we're making in the buildings, in the materials, and in the teachers will pay off because there's lots of evidence showing that kids who eat healthier will learn better.»

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While studies have consistently shown that teacher quality is the greatest influencer of a child's academic success, few systems exist in New York State to influence teacher quality.

We'll get by the character stuff - just show us how you are going to make New York State a better place, where people can go to parks without worry of shut down, where schools will have quality teachers and performance, where roads are taken care of, where bridges don't collapse, where state police do police and are not used to go on witch hunts, where budgets wont be made by more hidden fees and regressive taxes, and the list goes on.

The study also shows that the departure of teachers who were identified by IMPACT as low - performing resulted in substantial improvement in overall teacher quality and student achievement.

This year, the Education Show furthered its mission to provide educators with the highest quality free continuing professional development (CPD) and resources, by partnering with non-profit organisation, the Teacher Development Trust.

More research is showing the incredible impacts teachers have on their students and to me that highlights how important quality teaching can be.

The study, «From Adoption to Practice: Teacher Perspectives on the Common Core,» shows that while far more teachers are attending common - core training, they're giving the sessions low marks for quality.

Caroline Wright, director general designate at BESA says: «Our latest research shows that there is a growing desire and need by teachers for high quality CPD: 48 per cent of primary schools and 41 per cent of secondary schools state that CPD will be a focus for 2016/17.

With the School Travel Forum 2015 Survey of over 2,000 secondary school teachers showing that 22 per cent of school trip organisers are still opting to make their own travel arrangements and bypass the quality, safety and financial security benefits of travelling with an assured provider, going forward it is our role to win over those teachers who are still unaware of the technical and professional support that is at their disposal.

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

A few studies do show some preliminary evidence that teachers who receive high - quality feedback subsequently go on to boost student performance.

However, a series of studies by Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff show fairly conclusively that IMPACT has had a positive effect on teacher quality (see «A Lasting Impact,» research, Fall 2017).

What a huge loss: As research consistently shows, teacher quality is the single most important school - based factor in student learning.

But two RFTs funded by IES during Whitehurst's tenure, one on professional development in reading, the other in math, show the same thing: even prolonged, high - quality, in - service professional development programs for teachers produce nothing in the way of gains for students.

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

This seems illogical, or at least counterproductive, since research also shows that achievement would rise, achievement gaps would narrow, lifetime income would increase, and economic growth would surge if only we had the courage to identify and then replace the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the teacher quality distribution.

Data from the National Council on Teacher Quality show that the average CBA entitles teachers to nearly thirteen days of paid sick and / or personal leave per 180 - day school year (or the equivalent of sixteen days over the typical professional's 225 - day work year).

As Thomas Kane and his colleagues have shown (see «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007), the best measure of teacher quality in any given year is how much students learned from that same teacher the preceding year.

Connect with quality friends: Every Thursday morning at 5:30, I show up in a music teacher's driveway for a 50 - minute «walk & talk.»

My research shows that declines in teacher quality also pre-date unions.

The research showing the important variation in teacher quality within schools and its connection not only to test scores but also to other important outcomes ought to strengthen arguments for teacher - oriented policy interventions.

the quality of teachers shows a stronger relationship [than school facilities and curricula] to pupil achievement.

The strength of this relationship may be gauged by comparing the change in quality associated with changes in the school's position in the national test - score ranking: the results show that an increase of 50 percentile points is associated with an increase of 0.15 standard deviations in student perceptions of teacher practices (see Figure 1).

Jensen suggests that the majority of studies around the world have shown that class size reductions do not significantly improve student outcomes, and that the funds should have been redirected toward enhancing teacher quality.

The Department for Education can not show that its efforts to improve teacher retention and quality are having a positive impact, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

Extensive empirical research shows that improvements to teacher quality occur mainly in the first several years in the classroom.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

Classroom quality, as rated by observers on dimensions such as space and furnishings, personal - care routines, and interactions between teachers and children, has also been shown to affect outcomes for children.

For example, rather than questioning the right of teacher unions to exist, Brimelow could have shown how effective unions are not inherently at odds with the creation of high - quality products.

Studies consistently show that the single most important factor in improving student achievement is a quality teacher.

And other promising, recent reforms have shown that a lack of focus on teacher quality typically leads to disappointment.

But a survey to be released this week by Education Week shows that teachers are struggling to find high - quality software and Web sites.

The ETS is very upfront about the issues surrounding the use of teacher - licensure tests and entry tests as a measure of teacher quality, but it also points out that doing so does make sense, because using this kind of test can show that, as it says, «an individual has acquired a level of knowledge that is acceptable for licensing a beginning teacher, and that teachers without this knowledge are unlikely to become effective teachers.»

The concept is simple: A series of influential studies in recent years have shown that teacher quality is one of the most important factors in student achievement, so «good» teachers — as reflected in growth in student test scores — should be paid more than their less able colleagues.

Here, I'll concentrate on teacher - student feedback, but should point out that my research into highly effective departments and schools has shown that successful leaders provide high - quality feedback to their staff, an important influence on the quality of teaching in their schools.

Recent research has shown that high - quality early - childhood education has large impacts on outcomes such as college completion and adult earnings, but no study has identified the long - term impacts of teacher quality as measured by value added.

But preliminary analyses showed a slight negative relationship between state efforts to improve teacher quality and student - achievement gains.

So the simple answer to the question of teacher quality is to find all the techniques that research shows to be effective in promoting student learning and train teachers (or perhaps computers) to do them.

Research shows that high quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other's practices, experiences and support, and that's why we will always keep you, the reader, at the heart of Teacher magazine, providing educators and educational leaders with a strong voice and a platform to share and collaborate.

Research has shown that teacher wellbeing not only significantly impacts pupils» SATS results, but also has an effect on pupils» own social and emotional wellbeing, creating a negative learning environment and damaging the quality of relationships between teacher and pupil.

Although his little four - room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job:

Climate cops Though everyone's awareness of the environment and how we can all save energy may have increased over the years, teachers» feedback shows they still want high quality, easy to use, hard copy resources and materials, mapped to the curriculum, on the subject of sustainable development, energy, climate change and the environment.

Research shows that high quality teachers are critical to raising student achievement, but struggling schools face challenges attracting and retaining highly effective teachers.

New Teacher Center's (NTC) Investing in Innovation grant results, alone, show that a high - quality teacher induction program yields a gain of up to five months of student leTeacher Center's (NTC) Investing in Innovation grant results, alone, show that a high - quality teacher induction program yields a gain of up to five months of student leteacher induction program yields a gain of up to five months of student learning.

He uses a simple model of an administrator tasked with identifying high - quality teachers to show that empirical Bayes estimators, the most popular method to estimate teacher effectiveness for use in incentive (typically bonus) schemes, do not necessarily make the best use of available information as they are typically implemented.