Sentences with phrase «teacher effort levels»

The model predicts optimal teacher effort levels decline with both tenure at a school and experience, all things being equal.

Not exact matches

Children in elementary school who see different teachers throughout the day in an effort to individualize to skill level may be surprised to find themselves caught with too much work due at the same time.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

In an effort to put the strongest possible teachers in its classrooms, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) adopted a district - level screening system, the Multiple Measure Teacher Selections Process (MMTSP).

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

Teachers may exert lower levels of effort for students whose parents are less vocal about quality of instruction.

Efforts at the state level have been supported by the Clinton administration's class - size reduction program, passed in 1998, which was to fund the hiring of around 29,000 new teachers during the 1999 - 2000 school year alone.

Leaders of the new effort, «Project Appleseed,» hope to establish strong state - level Parents for Public Schools organizations comparable in stature to the state affiliates of the national teachers» unions and other groups.

With this level of diffusion, it's difficult to imagine any sort of any sort of coherence or structure, and the push for improving teacher preparation must grapple with how any preferred reform efforts would be implemented across such a fragmented market.

In this Voice of Experience essay, teacher Brenda Dyck offers a unique view of her efforts to stretch students» critical - thinking skills to the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

This runs counter to the idea that teachers should focus their instructional efforts on the (already comprehensive) topics and skills in the grade - level standards.

When decision making about resources, chiefly personnel, is decentralized to the school level, the principal and other site - based leaders can further their improvement efforts by hiring teachers and staff with qualifications that match the school's needs.

Teachers can also help students grapple with global concerns by focusing on what's happening at the local level, Bohmann says, and by highlighting positive efforts already under way.

Throughout the year, teachers were then charged with the task of performing additional assessments and experimenting with alternative intervention strategies in an effort to bring those students up to grade level.

For all teachers, regardless of subject or grade level, intensive effort to connect with learners is a nonnegotiable prerequisite for engagement.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.

In this webinar, our guests will discuss the barriers to finding and hiring qualified STEM teachers, and explore national and district - level efforts to reduce STEM teacher shortages.

Since we implemented Clever, we've seen a decrease in the level of effort to implement new educational applications, allowing teachers greater access to educational tools in their classroom.

In the update of her best - selling, classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how teachers can divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

The SAMR levels often are confusing to educators as well, even for trained technology coaches who are supposed to help teachers with their integration efforts.

Leaders of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education said here they would support efforts to shift professional training to the graduate level to allow prospective teachers more time to learn core subjects and to ensure that their professional training is more coherent and has more relevance.

Similarly, policy changes at the state or national level, such as the efforts to reduce class sizes or mandate higher - quality teachers, if effective, would likely lead one to overestimate the impact of Chicago's policies.

Students who share racial and / or gender characteristics with their teachers tend to report higher levels of personal effort, feeling cared for, student - teacher communication, academic engagement, and college aspirations.

Washington — Proposals to shift teacher training to the graduate level would reinforce «the current schism between liberal and professional education» and frustrate efforts to stem teacher shortages, a new report contends.

Never forget to value and respect your teachers and frequently celebrate their successes, being mindful that without the daily efforts of your committed team, student growth and development would quickly sink to mediocre levels.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

At the same time, she facilitated ongoing improvement efforts mandated at the district level prior to her appointment (curriculum writing, implementation of a commercial mathematics program)-- collaborating with grade team and subject leaders, specialist teachers, and trainers provided by the externally developed mathematics program.

Insight in Action During one school system's reform efforts, 25 - 30 teacher leaders whose release time from the classroom ranged from no - time to 3 / 4 - time engaged in work at the school and district level.

NCLB pressured schools without a concomitant effort to prepare and train teachers to bring their students to higher levels of achievement.

The findings suggest that, unlike parent communication, wherein individual teacher practices appear to be moderated by school - level efforts, promoting high student engagement is a teaching practice not easily influenced by school - level practice.

Parent links: Based on teachers» mean level of home communication and on efforts of school to reach out to parents

They found that active efforts «by district - level administrators to mediate sense - making affected teachers «attitudes toward accountability policies and standards - driven reform» (2005, p. 177).

Chinese teachers and learners tend to believe that basic skills are fundamental and must precede any effort to encourage higher - level learning (Cheng, 2004; Soh, 1999).

Such research would, in a single effort, examine school level factors (e.g., building climate, home - school relations, schoolwide organization for reading, collaborative efforts) while examining classroom / teacher factors (e.g., time spent in reading instruction, time on task, student engagement, approaches to word recognition and comprehension instruction, teachers» interactive styles).

It includes four strands: (1) development of a tool (the «Framework») to guide teachers» design of student learning experiences, (2) enhancement of teachers» leadership skills (particularly related to sharing leadership for instructional improvement), (3) dissemination efforts that support understanding and use of the Framework across levels of the education system and in all areas of the state, and (4) provision of a platform that provides rural areas in Colorado with easy access to the Framework and extends access to and use of the Framework across the nation and the globe.

She strongly suspected that teachers were not challenging students to the cognitive level of the new curriculum, and that too much effort was being devoted to test preparation.

Do principals and teachers at different school levels differ in their assessments of principals «efforts to provide instructional leadership?

In a differentiated classroom, teachers divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively teach students who have various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests (ASCD).

Through her work with the Boston Teacher Policy Team and the federal In Class, Not Cuffs campaign, Nina joined the efforts of thousands of other E4E teachers enacting change at the school, district, state, and national level.

Much of the focus in multicultural efforts in schools has been at the teacher level, but here we try to push candidates to think about how the school must develop this competency as well.

In each DVD, educators will witness teachers making headway in their classrooms by embracing Jensen's seven engagement factors — health and nutrition, vocabulary, effort and energy, mind - set, cognitive capacity, relationships, and stress level — and by making engagement an automated part of their classroom culture.

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this channel shows you practical, real - world examples from experienced elementary and secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

Highlights of this initiative include the development and support of a collaborative framework that empowers administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders as they work together; the creation and implementation of school - level action plans and follow - up activities that integrate ongoing school - based professional development activities; and the institution of leadership learning meetings to share implementation efforts.

This report provides a broad overview of state efforts, as of the 2011 - 12 school year, to monitor equitable access to qualified and effective teachers among schools; develop and adopt multiple measures of teacher performance to rate teachers among at least three performance levels; and implement targeted strategies for promoting equitable access to qualified and effective teachers.

Applying LEAs must detail their efforts to institute rigorous teacher and principal evaluation systems, data systems that specifically connect individual teachers with individual students, and data systems that compile student - level data from preschool through higher education.

However, with so much time and effort undertaken at the state level in the implementation of accountability measures such as Student Learning Objective (SLOs), prescribed teaching standard frameworks or rubrics, and student achievement data, I can not imagine a scenario in which states would abandon their new methods for grading teachers.

The Standards - based Report Card, which MPS began implementing in 2010 — 11, has been viewed by parents, families, and teachers as a positive step in better communicating what students are expected to learn at each grade level — and in providing information about their child's work habits, behavior, and effort.

A study of how elementary school teachers used social networks during reform efforts (Daly, Moolenaar, Bolivar, & Burke, 2010) found that they interacted primarily with fellow teachers in the same school and grade level; they rarely reached out beyond those groups, not even to their own principals and instructional coaches.

Groups of adult professionals learning together abound in schools today, whether they are reading clubs, data - driven sessions, subject - level department meetings, mandated ad hoc groups charged with solving a problem, or homegrown efforts examining individual teachers» practice.