Sentences with phrase «teacher efforts»
The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.
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We choose to provide a couple of pathways to focus teacher effort, understanding, and action.
By contrast, very little is known about how the availability of new information, or the experience of being evaluated, might change teacher effort and effectiveness.
Our results confirm that students in tracked classes seem to have benefited from more - focused teaching and perhaps also from greater teacher effort.
One is that high value - added scores in the initial year reflect teacher efforts to «teach to the test» rather than to produce meaningful skills.
District and school leaders can use this information to strengthen their efforts to recruit and retain high - quality teachers and, in addition, better support teacher efforts to educate students.
The model predicts optimal teacher effort levels decline with both tenure at a school and experience, all things being equal.
Without more good teachers efforts to improve skills were «built on sand», said report author Robert Barbour.
Fortunately, deeper learning can be accelerated by consolidating teacher efforts and combining relevant contents, in effect, opening new spillways of knowledge.
In our model, lessons designed to develop understanding substitute for teacher effort on this task so that teachers who may only excel at imparting knowledge can be effective overall — simplifying the job of teaching.
Increased teacher effort may help explain this pattern.
DSC also has first - rate resources for students and parents that augment teacher efforts in these areas.
The intervention had no impact on teacher absences, but it did have an impact on other self - reported measures of teacher effort — e.g., amount of classwork and homework assigned, the teaching of classes outside school hours, and the administration of practice tests — illuminating a possible mechanism through which the program increased student learning.
In spite of the obvious reading challenge, I would feel very confident in the combined teachers efforts to help your sproggie.
Although I already support our teachers efforts, witnessing their lessons garnered more support from me... and I believe that would be the case for most parents.
PhET simulations are tools that enhance a well - designed curriculum and teacher efforts but can not replace them.