«Why would you want to produce something that doesn't have
strong teacher input?»
Not exact matches
The schools and classrooms where I've seen the
strongest relationship - based cultures are ones where students have
input on establishing norms and processes, where team building happens throughout the year so that students and
teachers know each other well, and, on the
teacher level, where
teachers have regular opportunities to collaborate to design meaningful PBL experiences for students and discuss student supports.
While there was
strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about
teacher quality that was based on
inputs rather than outputs.
«The standards are a tremendous credit to the outstanding educators who served on the standards committee, led by co-chairs Dr. John Cannon and Indira Cureton - Cummings, NBCT, and reflect the
strong support and
input of stakeholders and
teachers across the spectrum of CTE.»
One suggested strategy for securing
teacher buy - in was to allow
teacher input in determining the work of the PLC, creating a
stronger feeling of ownership of the PLC among participants, and helping ensure that the work of the PLC has a clear alignment to
teachers» needs.
These are important conversations we need to start having now so that — as we did with
teacher evaluations — we can build a
strong, student — focused accountability system for districts that is informed by
input from many stakeholders.
He also got the
strong impression that his presence at the PARCC review session was mere «window dressing» so Common Core officials could truthfully claim that classroom
teachers had
input in the test's design.
Thus, our finding of the absence of a
strong relationship between the indirect measure of
teacher capacity that we used and student achievement may simply reflect the low quality of typical professional development
inputs available to
teachers in schools.