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Achieve Intensive is uniquely designed to put actionable data right at school and district leaders» fingertips, to maximize teacher effectiveness while minimizing planning time and administrative tasks, and to strengthen the home - school connection!

All Agile Mind programs are designed to increase student achievement in mathematics and to support teacher effectiveness while also preparing students to excel on high stakes exams.

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While my effectiveness as a teacher has grown exponentially, I still have a lot to learn.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

While measures of teachers» general academic skills, such as SAT scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.

Former NEA president Reg Weaver cautioned that «while we can be open to alternatives, we should always oppose politically motivated, quick fixes designed to weaken the voice of teachers and the effectiveness of education employees.

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

And while early data are promising, it is too early to be certain as to the effectiveness of online teacher education in promoting student learning.

While «it will take time to develop richer and more sophisticated measures of teacher effectiveness,» Haycock writes, «until then policymakers should use a combination of the best available measures.»

A 2003 Public Agenda survey found that barely one in five teachers thought linking teachers» salaries to their effectiveness would help motivate teachers or reward high - performers, while more than 60 percent worried that it would lead to jealousy.

While the richness of the TIMSS data enables us to control for an unusually large set of teacher characteristics, our results could still be biased if teachers with different effectiveness levels are more likely to choose different teaching styles.

We'll identify areas of effectiveness and help you set priorities for areas that most need improvement, while keeping in mind the critical importance of developing curricula that can be reasonably taught in the time allotted, allowing teachers to help students develop deep knowledge of what they're learning.

And while experience is not a perfect proxy for effectiveness, research consistently shows that teachers undergo a steep learning curve during the first three years on the job and then gradually reach a peak in their fifth year.

While these findings can not speak to the effectiveness of various certification policies, they at least dispel the notion that only the traditional route to teaching can produce good teachers.

But while I certainly don't want to see effective teachers labeled ineffective, it would be a grave mistake to simply abandon teaching effectiveness measures.

Public - opinion surveys suggest that the proposal — which ties hiring, firing, and transfer decisions to teacher effectiveness, while still giving some consideration to seniority — may be more popular than the merit - pay or school - voucher proposals.

JM: External research has validated TFA's findings on teacher effectiveness: a June 2004 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA teachers perform at least as well as traditionally prepared and certified teachers in similar schools, while a 2006 study published in Education Next (see Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger, «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New York City.

* The value - added model that the MET project employs, while common in the literature, is also not designed to address how the distribution of teacher effects varies between high - and low - performing classrooms (e.g., teachers of ELL classes are assumed to be of the same average effectiveness as teachers of gifted / talented classes).

«I'm excited that we have begun our work with these national leaders and that our local school districts will be able to use their expertise to help build the types of comprehensive evaluation systems that will provide meaningful feedback to teachers while gauging their effectiveness in a fair manner.»

While the trends were provocative, with half the teachers in the most effective schools preferring coaching compared to about a quarter of teachers in the moderately and least effective schools, the ANOVAs on preferred interaction styles by school effectiveness level were not statistically significant — coaching, F (2, 67) = 2.32, p >.05; telling, F (2, 67) = 2.01, p >.05; or recitation, F (2, 67) =.17 (see Table 11).

Through the LEGO Education Academy, free online learning courses are available for some LEGO Education solutions and are designed to help teachers enhance the student experience and learning effectiveness while using LEGO Education solutions.

While a coaching preference did not emerge as a general difference among teachers across school effectiveness ratings, we did find that the practice of coaching during reading to provide word recognition instruction was found to be a characteristic of teachers in the most effective schools and the most accomplished teachers in general.

Paul, Unfortunately, while an administrative credential grants the right to evaluate teachers, it does not guarantee the necessary abilities are acquired — only that they are presented; just as holding a teaching credential does not guarantee the teacher has the necessary abilities to instruct (and, btw, what are the agreed upon definitions of ability and effectiveness?).

«While the last five plus years have seen most states make significant changes to their teacher evaluation policies, California has not been part of the national movement to connect teacher evaluation to classroom effectiveness,» Sandi Jacobs, senior vice president for state and district policy for NCTQ, said in an email to LA School Report.

The council would, among other tasks, evaluate the effectiveness of the common - core assessments; help set performance - level benchmarks for cross-state tests; provide professional development for teachers and the public on how to use different tests; and develop and study policies and protocols to protect students» privacy while allowing the use of assessment data for research.

While MCLs are formally accountable for the whole team's outcomes, team teachers mentor the aspiring teachers, too, forcing them to think about the effectiveness of their own teaching methods.

While compact activities have continued with joint principal training, teacher effectiveness initiatives, and Common Core implementation, success has varied widely.

In addition, while many have noted that the statistical methods employed to generate value - added estimates will force a distribution of «teacher effectiveness» scores, it is not clear that the distinctions generated and measured have educational (or clinical) meaning.

But Kayla McGannon, the director of advocacy for Stand for Children Colorado, said that while backing candidates who supported SB 191 was a «big priority» for the group, it also favored incumbents or challengers who shared the organization's broader views of education policy, not just on teacher effectiveness.

«While we do high - level thinking about things like teacher effectiveness or Common Core [curriculum], the question is what exactly will we do tomorrow about those districts.»

Also, development of a strategy to communicate, disseminate, and revisit evaluation of the effectiveness of in - service teacher training and mentoring models would significantly benefit the field and result in an increasingly comprehensive approach to preparing social studies teachers to use technology effectively in the classroom, while also providing a model for influencing policy and continually improving practice.

All sides of the educational policy debate now accept that the key determinant of school effectiveness is teachers — that effective teachers get good achievement results for all children, while ineffective teachers hurt all students, regardless of background.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

While coaching provides teachers and school leaders with a «thought partner» as they apply their new learning and changes to their practice, it is Cognitive Coaching that systematically changes educator practice and ultimately improves educator effectiveness.

While a handful of teachers in a school might be using differentiation to great success, it takes a collaborative, schoolwide approach to maximize differentiation's effectiveness and improve outcomes for all students.

While essential to teachers» effectiveness, reliance on instructional expertise is insufficient to maintain a productive classroom.

While at different points in their study and implementation of the model, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming specifically name the development of residencies as a key effort for moving the needle on teacher effectiveness.

While coaching provides teachers and school leaders with a «thought partner» as they apply new learning and changes to their practice, it is Cognitive Coaching that systematically changes educator practice and ultimately improves educator effectiveness.

After mentioning NCTQ's plans for a nation - wide review of teacher preparation programs, McKee suggested that in order to improve teacher effectiveness the federal government should provide funding for high - performing teacher preparation programs, issue state teacher preparation report cards, and research best practices, while states should strengthen their oversight practices, and require rigorous licensing tests that do not act as a rubber stamp for all teacher candidates.

While this doesn't directly affect Hardy, who already works in a school without tenure, the law elevates the role that principals play in improving teacher effectiveness — just what Hardy is trying to do.

Through multi-faceted partnerships with elementary schools, we offer professional learning proven to increase teacher effectiveness and job satisfaction while boosting student achievement.

Though the test has undergone some changes, a 2007 study of North Carolina teachers found significant overlap in the effectiveness distributions of elementary teachers who did and did not pass the Praxis II Subject Assessment Test, while large numbers of teachers who did not pass the exam achieved the same or greater levels of effectiveness in the classroom.7

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, Oregon should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees generally do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

While giving local districts authority over pay scales, the state should ensure that effectiveness is a factor in teachers» compensation.

While Tennessee has experimented with career progression programs and differentiated pay plans in the past, we are proposing a bold, comprehensive strategy that builds upon the work already underway in the Memphis Teacher Effectiveness Initiative under a $ 90 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

While at Mathematica, he was primarily responsible for data management and analytic tasks for education evaluations for the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, which covered areas such as teacher collaboration, the effectiveness of K - 3 mathematics curricula, and the implementation and effects of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants.

While leaving districts flexibility to decide their own pay scales, states should promote compensation tied to teacher effectiveness and discourage districts from basing pay solely on criteria not correlated with teacher effectiveness.

While still leaving districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, Maryland should articulate policies that definitively discourage districts from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

Our research - based coaching model accelerates the effectiveness of teachers dedicated to 3 -, 4 -, and 5 - year - olds by building instructional and reflective capacity while focusing on continuous quality improvement.