Sentences with phrase «single teacher in the building»

«If your child is known by every single teacher in the building, if you have a relationship of nine years» duration, if you have that kind of focus and intensity,» Moloney asked, «is that not better than when your children are sent to a more distant school with larger numbers?»

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As one example, in a very useful recent policy proposal, Jacob and Rockoff propose three low - cost ways to organize schools to maximize student performance: combining elementary and middle schools into single buildings; optimizing teacher assignment policies; and starting school later in the day for middle and high school students.

The hardest part of capacity building is not identifying effective instructional methods or putting this information in the hands of teachers, but getting teachers to change what they do every single day.

This type of building, created to promote efficiencies and separate students into age - based groups to receive direct instruction by a single teacher, was not designed with adult collaboration in mind.

Such research would, in a single effort, examine school level factors (e.g., building climate, home - school relations, schoolwide organization for reading, collaborative efforts) while examining classroom / teacher factors (e.g., time spent in reading instruction, time on task, student engagement, approaches to word recognition and comprehension instruction, teachers» interactive styles).

The typical teacher evaluation in public education consists of a single, fleeting classroom visit by a principal or other building administrator untrained in evaluation who wields a checklist of classroom conditions and teacher behaviors that often don't focus directly on the quality of instruction.

E4E teachers that are leading this work every single day in their classrooms across the country hope that the Department will preserve and build on this guidance that benefits educators and students alike.»

Clicking to another tab offers a comparison view within a single school, so teachers can easily see where achievement gaps are in their own buildings.

Value - added analysis built around the model of a single teacher leading a class of 25 students might make it impossible for schools to pursue more personalized instructional models, or models in which a team of professionals is responsible for raising achievement.

My best advice for a first - year teacher is to find the good in every single student, especially ones that present as challenges the most and build relationships with them.

«The plane of results (in the sense of changes wrought in pupils) would be the ideal plane upon which to build an estimate of a teacher's individual efficiency, if it were possible (1) to measure all of the results of teaching, and (2) to pick out from the body of measured results any single teacher's contribution.