Sentences with phrase «taking teacher decision»

Sequencing became very popular during the seventies when the goal of many was to make education «teacher - proof» by taking teacher decision - making out of the process and replacing it with systems.

Not exact matches

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

I just hope that whoever is REALLY making decisions gets to see what I see, and takes care of these AMAZING teachers instead of alienating them, because I wouldn't want anyone else looking after my children.

Said Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa: «This decision not only reduces the amount of time children will spend taking tests, but also returns valuable instructional time to our teachers.

He stressed that his union holds the largest teacher population in basic and second cycle schools, «therefore if you want to take any decision that affects education in Ghana, you can not sidestep us.»

«This decision not only reduces the amount of time children will spend taking tests, but also returns valuable instructional time to our teachers,» Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said.

In a precedent - setting decision, a Staten Island judge ruled last week that the Department of Education took illegal shortcuts in firing a tenured teacher.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

Mr Banks acknowledged in some cases head teachers may take a wrong decision and procedures should be in place to address this.

«Specifically, we identify with the appeal to the government of Kaduna state that is planning the mass sack of over twenty one thousand teachers to tread a more cautious path in this trying time as it takes its monumental decisions.

«Teachers do not take the decision to strike easily, or lightly, but teachers» patience has been stretched to the limit,» NUT acting general secretary Christine BlowTeachers do not take the decision to strike easily, or lightly, but teachers» patience has been stretched to the limit,» NUT acting general secretary Christine Blowteachers» patience has been stretched to the limit,» NUT acting general secretary Christine Blower said.

Indeed, some of the most important decisions that affect city parents, students and teachers are taken in the State Senate and Assembly in Albany.

According to the president the decision was taken in the interest of many a student who wished to pursue higher education to become a trained teacher or a trained nurse in the countries tertiary institutions.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

In its latest round of decisions, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education granted accreditation to a larger proportion of teacher - education institutions than had been customary since tougher ncate standards took effect iTeacher Education granted accreditation to a larger proportion of teacher - education institutions than had been customary since tougher ncate standards took effect iteacher - education institutions than had been customary since tougher ncate standards took effect in 1988.

In addition, Russell Quaglia, president and founder of the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, and Lisa Lande, executive director of the Teacher Voice and Aspirations International Center, have recently proposed three steps that school and district leaders can take to ensure teacher voice is represented in decision - Teacher Voice and Aspirations International Center, have recently proposed three steps that school and district leaders can take to ensure teacher voice is represented in decision - teacher voice is represented in decision - making:

The Department for Education (DfE) took the decision to publish minutes of head teacher board meetings in January 2015, following criticism that RSCs were unaccountable.

While they're working, teachers don't have to save for retirement or worry about investing those savings, because the state takes care of all of those decisions.

And, when layoffs are required, a final law requires that decisions can not take into account a teacher's effectiveness but must be based entirely on seniority.

Teachers took the lead in most schools, and in others they worked collaboratively with administrators to make decisions about what reach models to adopt and flesh out the design details.

Whether a teacher chooses to find a mentor on staff or take a course online, whether my wife and I choose to put our boys in specialized language support or believe over time they will naturally grow out of it — and there are folks in this audience who would support either decision — any of those decisions can be the right one.

That information is imperfect and won't always lead to the right decision, but it suggests that it might take a longer period of time than just a single year to really know with a sufficient amount of certainty whether to dismiss or retain a teacher.

Colleges take account of students» aptitude, high - school grades, extracurricular activities, and character in making acceptance decisions, so the selectivity of a teacher's college summarizes a complex set of information on aptitude, work ethic, leadership, creativity, and so on.

We believe that decisions about assigning teachers and other school staff to workspaces should be deliberate, with leaders explicitly taking into account the important role of physical proximity to influence who will be talking to whom about teaching and learning.

Teachers need to take an active role in making decisions about the purpose of assessment and the content that is being assessed.

Numerous supply teachers have seen a reduction in their take - home pay following the government's decision to axe tax relief on travel and subsistence expenses.

«[The teacher] and I used the Smartboard to take notes, viewable by all, of the students» ideas, words and decisions, as we went through the story - writing process — brainstorming, developing characters, commencing the plot, dialogue and word choice,» said Rentz.

Decision - making takes on a transparency that encourages teachers to take risks and recognizes that teachers learn from making mistakes.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

He said the project did not study whether evaluations used for high - stakes decisions will cause teachers to cheat, change what they teach or take other actions that could skew the results.

However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

We know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take teacher voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

The U.S. Department of Education will not reverse its decision that Oregon is at «high risk» of failing to use student test scores to help evaluate teachers, a step it promised to take to get out from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

HHS teachers are still wearing all of the hats that a traditional teacher must wear, in addition to taking on huge responsibilities in curricular and instructional design, procurement decisions, and competency - based pacing.

Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.

Perhaps the higher levels of support we observed in 2014 reflected temporary shocks to public opinion stemming from events such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election and the landmark Vergara v. California decision that struck down California's teacher evaluation and tenure laws, both of which took place while our survey was in the field.

But if principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower - value - added teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher - value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.

«It took us almost 20 years to establish a sector, it took one court decision to rip it away from us and now we are fighting to maintain and reclaim that option» for the students, families and teachers of Washington.

In addition, the work of the team is enhanced when teacher leaders foster a climate in which differing perspectives are welcomed and taken into account as teams make instructional decisions.

Through the project teachers learn how to share decision making, advocate for policies that support student learning, work collaboratively to implement and monitor the effectiveness of instructional approaches, and establish a culture of risk - taking and shared responsibility for student learning.

«[It] has come to the point where the Common Core is overstepping individual and local decision - making and taking away teacher autonomy and classroom management... society is too rich in diversity for a centralized government to dictate teaching methods and techniques.»

In one such study, the researchers analyzed preservice teachers» rationales for technology - integration decisions while taking an educational technology course.

Further, it provides an overview of ways in which classroom teachers, teacher leaders, reading specialists, principals, and former instructional coaches can take on roles to provide professional development, foster teacher collaboration, and initiate data - based decision making within schools.

Thus, we argue that future research on teachers» uses of data needs to take a multi-contextual approach to understand how instructional decisions are actually made.

A couple of weeks ago, Edunomics Lab, a university - based research center that focuses on «exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions,» released a report in which it claims to have figured out a way to pay some teachers more without taking money away from other areas or sticking it to the taxpayer.

The decision taken by members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) to amalgamate into a single union, the National Education Union (NEU), is significant and historic.

But federal Education Secretary Arne Duncan took a more positive tone: Duncan said the decision «presents the opportunity» for California to «build a new framework» and fix teacher quality problems.

This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal.

This example described another external barrier where the IT Department / Administration imposed curricular decisions across grade levels, taking the pedagogical decisions away from the teachers.

But given how seldom parents and teachers and students are involved in decisions about what gets measured, it takes on added urgency.