Sentences with phrase «teacher concerns raised»

«We believe the union leadership orchestrated an uninformed «no» vote by failing to provide information to teachers in our schools and by withholding from them a proposal that would have modified the plan in a manner designed to address teacher concerns raised by a poll in March,» the statement said.

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Greg Pittman, a history teacher at Stoneman Douglas, defended the district's decision on Twitter, saying the photos raised concerns.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Supply teachers raised concerns that whilst schools are paying agencies hundreds of pounds a time to cover individual classes, teachers receive only a small fraction of the fees being paid to supply agencies.

«Supply teachers who have the courage to raise concerns are blacklisted and denied work.

Commenting on the report by Women and Equalities Commission, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The latest report from the Women and Equalities Commission sadly reflects and confirms the issues and concerns the NASUWT has been raising with Government and employers about the treatment of women teachers for some time.

That caveat appears to have been partly vindicated by the report, which raised concerns about how vital teaching roles were handed to unqualified teachers.

Instead further adverse changes have been imposed to teachers» pay and conditions with no regard to any concerns raised.

These problems and concerns raised by the police personnel on duty paints exactly the gloomy picture of the kind of problems teachers, and health workers who are posted to work at these deprived villages face on a daily basis.

Some of the concerns raised in Mr. Flanagan's report include: over-testing of students, inadequate professional development funding for teacher training, incomplete and missing modules and the use of test questions that were neither age - level nor developmentally appropriate.

Teachers attending the LGBTI Teachers» Consultation Conference, organised by the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union today (Saturday) in Birmingham, raised concerns that progress on tackling discrimination and advancing equality has been rolled back or hampered as a result of changes in the political climate in the last 18 months.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Pupil behaviour is one of the top concerns that teachers raise about their job.

But even the best educators are only effective when they show up, and school officials in Buffalo are raising concerns about high rates of absenteeism among teachers.

Baronness Buscombe, a Conservative peer, said the Deputy Prime Minister was being hypocritical by raising concerns about free schools and their staff when he was most likely taught by «brilliant» unqualified teachers as a child.

Concerns about poor social skills among children raised alone stem in part from a paper Downey published in 2004, which asked kindergarten teachers in the US to rate the social skills of children, aged around 5, in their care.

The study reviewed the records of 2,437 children, born between 1988 and 1998 in Stockholm, in response to parents and teachers who had raised concerns about whether children with a Somali background were overrepresented in the total group of children with autism.

In addition to the longstanding belief that replacing exiting teachers is difficult, additional concerns have been raised in the D.C. schools that high - performing teachers may leave because of the stress of high - stakes evaluation.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

Rather, in his eagerness to belittle my findings, he shows a defensiveness that raises concerns about the capacity of teacher education to reform itself.

During stakeholder consultations, educators raised concerns the assessments would be an extra burden to teachers already struggling with a hefty workload, lead to a possible narrowing of the curriculum, and cause stress for students and parents.

«So that's why I'm delighted to announce today that we'll be setting up new working groups to address the three biggest concerns that teachers raised in the workload challenge - marking, planning and resources, and data management.

The Australian Education Union's federal president Correna Haythorpe told ABC News teachers had raised concerns about the online test.

«Increasingly teachers are being subject to allegations by parents on social media, often before the parent has raised any concerns with the school.»

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has raised concerns about future funding for schools in England ahead of next weeks Spending Review.

Once a week, tutors have «practice and planning time,» where teachers give them insight into content and lesson plans and can raise concerns about supports that individual students might require.

In particular, one might be concerned that parents do not have accurate information on teachers» ability to raise student achievement.

In the latest turn, the Houston public schools fired a teacher and reprimanded two principals this month after the state education agency raised concerns about possible test - tampering in the district — the state's largest — and 10 other districts.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Teachers also raised concerns about the EBacc, with 74 per cent saying it has narrowed the Key Stage 4 curriculum in their schools and 77 per cent saying the new GCSE curriculum will be less suitable for low attaining students.

The report raised concerns that the supply of new head teachers is declining just as the demand is set to increase, citing plans to create 500 free schools, which will require new executive head roles in multi academy trusts.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

Concerned that this system makes it difficult to retain talented teachers and provides few incentives for them to work to raise student achievement while in the classroom, many policymakers have proposed merit - pay programs that link teachers» salaries directly to their apparent impact on student achievement.

However, a review of evidence relating to the accessibility of the 2016 key stage 2 reading test, which acknowledges concerns raised by teachers, states that «while standards were set appropriately in 2016, the review suggests that the test seemed to be more challenging than the sample materials provided».

Any concerns the appraiser has over a teacher's performance needs to be raised during the year.

In my experience, it is not unusual for teachers to 1) not really know that much about the test scores they are attempting to explain, and 2) be civil toward me yet completely discount most of the questions I ask and the concerns I raise.

These concerns raise the possibility that attempts to reward meritorious teachers could even have perverse consequences.

NUT Cymru has raised concerns over the welfare of Welsh teachers after research found that 51,795 days were lost to stress related illnesses last year.

The initiative has grown rapidly since its origins as a regional programme through the Mayor of London, and the concerns raised by teachers, students, industry professionals and local government during the panel discussion only cements the need to develop computational thinking skills in a more effective way to support a 21st Century education.

A large majority of teachers have raised concerns that education reforms with an increased focus on exams are undermining student's health and wellbeing.

At Conference, Top Admins Weigh Ups, Downs of Virtual Education Harvard Crimson, 9/17/14 [Dean James] Ryan raised concern over a lack of training in technological literacy and virtual education for teachers, particularly for K - 12 teachers, at his school and others.

Teachers attending the LGBTI Teachers» Consultation Conference, organised by the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union today, raised concerns that progress on tackling discrimination and advancing equality has been rolled back or hampered as a result of changes in the political climate in the last 18 months.

Two associations, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Association for School Business Managers (NASBM), have raised concerns over plans to reduce «per place funding» for mainstream schools with special units from # 10,000 to # 6,000.

Primary teachers have raised concerns after school children were left upset after taking «one of hardest» tests yet to be seen in the Key Stage 2 qualification.

With regard to other forms of abuse, such as verbal confrontations on the school premises, it is also important for schools to have policies and mechanisms in place when it comes to dealing with this type of issue, so that teachers can be assured that any concerns that they raise about these issues are dealt with fairly and robustly.

On February 11, 2014, the Board of Regents adopted emergency regulations to address concerns that have been raised by the field and by stakeholders to adjust and improve the implementation of the Common Core Standards and teacher / principal evaluation.

New teacher evaluation systems are the latest effort to measure and improve the quality of the teaching workforce, but these new systems have already raised concerns that they will be subject to the same rating inflation by administrators that plagued previous systems.

She also raised concerns that teachers at the school are not protected by a collective bargaining agreement and that the takeover would usher in privatization of public schools.

The point is raised here, however, as a reminder that policy decisions concerning teacher training and certification can not assume that a fixed set of requirements will make all teachers perform the same.

He raises a number of issues including his assertion that states should be responsible for the hiring and employment of teachers and that school boards should devote themselves to the improvement of student learning and should not concern themselves with the running of schools.

Many teachers raised concerns about age discrimination relating to the current teacher shortage after a recent post.