Sentences with phrase «single teacher in their classroom»

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«The single most important factor in a student's progress is the effectiveness of the classroom teacher and we are going to find new ways to attract, reward and retain great teachers,» the mayor said.

Members of Governor Cuomo's new Education Reform Commission should continually ask themselves a single question: Would this lead to better teachers in our classrooms?

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

However, as a teacher, I am the most impactful single person in the classroom.

The ideology behind the single - point rubric inherently moves classroom grading away from quantifying and streamlining student work, shifting student and teacher focus in the direction of celebrating creativity and intellectual risk - taking.

Fortunately, since eLearning instructors are not physically constrained in supervising a single classroom at a time, they can handle way more learners than an old school (pun intended) teacher ever could — which means you don't have to hire as many.

For more than a century, public education has worked under a single salary schedule that compensates teachers for college credits, education degrees, and years of experience, but not for their effectiveness in the classroom.

The program is housed in a single classroom with five rows of individual computer stations, a desk for the teacher at the back of the room, and a few small tables for collaboration.

When used for a teacher in a single classroom, we frequently only have 20 or 25 observations (if that).

Most of that money was paid out using traditional single - salary compensation schedules, a system that typically pays the same salary to all teachers with the same level of education and number of years in the classroom.

Finally, 8 percent of the teachers in our sample taught in a mixed - grade classroom in 2002 — 03, and 5 percent were in a «split» classroom, sharing a single contract and dividing the school day with another teacher.

While good teachers get similar gains compared to average teachers, those gains accrue just to the students in a single classroom.

And then I also saw two teachers who were just operating out of a single office and would teach to students who were in an entire classroom somewhere else.

• The third, Questions / Discussion vs. Standards / Content, measures the difference between a teacher's rating on a single standard that evaluates the use of questions and classroom discussion as an instructional strategy, and that same teacher's average rating on three standards that assess teaching practices that focus on classroom management routines, on conveying standards - based instructional objectives to students, and on demonstrating content - specific knowledge in teaching these objectives.

• When schools lack expert teachers because of shortages stemming from geographic limitations or attrition, for example; • When expert teachers must serve a wide range of student needs in a single classroom by personalizing learning for each student; • And when expert teachers much teach more than academic content.

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First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

Bromley head teacher Patrick Wenham has seen the difference in achievement for boys and girls first - hand during his 30 - plus years in the classroom, and believes single - sex education is a tool that can be used to improve achievement, particularly for male pupils.

As Mackay is keen to get every single staff member trained as a coach, Ross works closely with teachers, coaching them on what exactly their role is, what the commonalities are and what you should look for in a classroom.

Yet the call - up of a single teacher can alter the lives of a classroom full of students in ways few have imagined.

The strategy of flipping your classroom that I learned from Jon Bergmann has been, without exception, the single, most powerful overnight transformation in education I have ever seen in my 30 + years as a teacher.

Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein told the Journal that the poll «indicates that voters are starting to understand the issues with these high - stakes teacher evaluations and how this skews what happens in the classroom to focus narrowly on a single test, rather than on the deep, well - rounded education that students deserve.»

In the STAR data, however, each kindergarten teacher is only observed teaching a single kindergarten class, making it difficult to separate out the part of the classroom effect due to the teacher.

Now, in its second year, the school has shifted away from a single - provider model to instead making teachers the primary designers of the blended - learning models in their individual classrooms by using a wider range of tools.

Students pursue most of their academic studies in single - sex classrooms, where they can «risk trying your best,» and stay with the same group of students and teachers for two years.

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).

While research shows that classroom teachers are the single most important in - school factor in improving student achievement, their diverse voices are consistently left out of education policy decisions.

Rather than distill a student's growth into a single number or percentage, we've leveraged our rich data about each student to provide teachers with classroom - level strategy group support, a real - time activity feed that shares information about whether a student has demonstrated understanding in a lesson, the opportunity to experience the tasks and questions students were given in each lesson, and the ability to easily assign differentiated lessons that take into account each student's prior knowledge.

Research shows that classroom teachers are the single most important in - school factor in improving student achievement.

There is NO way a single general ed classroom teacher can give those kids the one - to - one assistance they MUST have, yet that is the picture of inclusion that is happening in some schools.

Each cultural force provides a leverage point for teachers to use in creating classrooms where thinking is more than an add - on activity or part of a single lesson.

I did not see a single classroom where the kids were sitting in rows, quietly listening to a lecturing teacher.

This model is designed to help teachers incorporate the highest - impact instructional practices: classroom discussion, debate, and repeated reading of text to ensure the greatest literacy achievement in a single school year.

Although no teacher can single - handedly ensure that an entire school will be a safe and respectful environment, «one dedicated teacher can create safety for students in his or her classroom and serve as a resonating role model for both students and teachers,» asserts the author.

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And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

In a 2010 lawsuit she litigated, a California classroom had 19 substitute teachers in a single semesteIn a 2010 lawsuit she litigated, a California classroom had 19 substitute teachers in a single semestein a single semester.

Whereas traditional evaluations tend to be one - dimensional, relying exclusively on a single observation of a teacher in a classroom, more comprehensive models capture a richer picture of a teacher's performance.

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.»

The single - school configuration helped the teachers easily administer common assessments, obtain assessment data from a larger sample size (3 biology classrooms), and use the information from their collaborative study of the assessments results to modify instruction in a timely manner.

«The single most important factor to student achievement is having a great teacher in the classroom.»

During this stage of the cycle, the coach and teacher will explore improvement areas and hone in on a single issue that needs adjusting and will lead to a difference in classroom culture.

This fall, principals and assistant principals fanned out into thousands of Tennessee classrooms in an unprecedented effort to spend at least an hour annually observing and rating every single teacher, guidance counselor, social worker and librarian in the state's public school system.

Teachers in single - computer classrooms face substantial barriers when attempting to use their computer for instructional purposes.

Mass education presents a difficult balance for teachers, in that students of varying ability levels are in a single classroom.

Clearly, the IDS provided a way for the student teachers to take advantage of digital and Internet resources in a single computer classroom for whole - class instruction and active student engagement.

I arrived at Teachers College in 2002, and over the last 13 years every single year I've had a project that involved going in to classrooms.

The results of the study demonstrate how student teachers used a relatively inexpensive IDS to support reforms - based instruction in the single computer classroom.

«The loss of even a single student will reduce the revenue received,» the report states, because «the reduction of a single student in a classroom will not alleviate the need to have a teacher in that classroom... In fact, the per - pupil cost for that classroom or school would increase because the fixed expenses would remain, but the revenue to support them would be decreased.&raquin a classroom will not alleviate the need to have a teacher in that classroom... In fact, the per - pupil cost for that classroom or school would increase because the fixed expenses would remain, but the revenue to support them would be decreased.&raquin that classroom... In fact, the per - pupil cost for that classroom or school would increase because the fixed expenses would remain, but the revenue to support them would be decreased.&raquIn fact, the per - pupil cost for that classroom or school would increase because the fixed expenses would remain, but the revenue to support them would be decreased.»