Sentences with phrase «teacher based on performance»

While merit pay can be defined in a variety of ways, it most commonly refers to paying teachers based on performance instead of the number of years spent in the classroom.

Previous teacher evaluation policies didn't differentiate poor teachers from average teachers or great ones — much less award or discipline teachers based on their performance.

There is no way to pay teachers based on performance without the ability to measure that performance in a meaningful way.

The issues around teachers are often reduced by some to simple phrases: Pay teachers based on their performance.

Despite repeated efforts to reward teachers based on performance — both theirs and their students» — many experts say this incentive doesn't improve education.

Together, these premises argue for systems that aim to evaluate, recognize, and remove teachers based on performance, but that do so while respecting the bluntness of various measures.

Charlotte Danielson is the creator of a method of observing and rating teachers based on their performance in the classroom known as the Framework for Teaching.

Do the countries that pay teachers based on their performance score higher on PISA tests?

Recent policy debate has centered on defining measures of teacher quality, including student outcomes, and structuring incentives for teachers based on performance.

In Score to Soar, we discuss four types of teachers based on their performance levels and the support they may need:

California state Sen. Bob Huff (R) is sponsoring SB 355, which would allow districts to lay off teachers based on performance evaluations.

Calling the current pay model, which rewards longevity and educational degrees, «outdated and not connected to quality outcomes,» Bell announced support for a new model that rewards teachers based on performance, national certification, taking leadership roles, more difficult assignments such as bilingual or special education, and working in poorly performing schools.

Along the way, he's butted heads with the state teachers» union over issues such as evaluating teachers based on performance.

Michigan has seen major school reform this year, passing a law with bipartisan support that limited teachers» collective bargaining and made it easier to fire teachers based on performance.

Ms. Hoxby did not reach any conclusions about what practices at the schools caused the jump, but she noted that many charter schools had extended school days and school years, many required students to attend classes on Saturdays and most paid teachers based on their performance and responsibility, rather than the traditional teachers» union salary scales.

New York state lawmakers last week voted to prohibit school districts from denying tenure to a teacher based on the performance of the teacher's students on standardized tests — an idea that has been championed by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

The typical system includes no mechanisms to weed out poor teachers, no attempts to pay teachers based on their performance, no real sanctions for low performance, and no logical connection between rewards and incentives.

Nevertheless, it's fundamentally unfair to evaluate a teacher based on the performance of students they don't teach.

The key is making it easier to fire bad teachers and reward teachers based on performance, not seniority.

States applying for the grants will also asked to show that they are paying teachers based on performance, intervening faster to turn around their lowest - performing schools, authorizing more charter schools and closing achievement gaps such as those between white students and their black and Latino peers.