Sentences with phrase «teacher flexibility in»

Regardless, of the final outcome with the labor board, unionization would have dramatic negative effects on school autonomy and teacher flexibility in Alliance charter schools.

The district allows teachers some flexibility in how they teach, but teachers are not free to attempt to teach reading without phonics.

They also provide examples and activities to be done in class and allow teachers flexibility in designing lessons.

Individualized instruction provides a customized learning program for each student and gives teachers flexibility in their instruction.

Not exact matches

Transitioning back to work is tough for any new mom, and teaching while breastfeeding adds an extra layer of logistics to manage — there's little flexibility or private time in a teacher's day.

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement strategies.

These are all aspects of a complete yoga practice, in addition to the calisthenics or feats of flexibility most teachers focus on.

Helena is a seasoned teacher with 15 years of teaching experience and therapeutic techniques to assist in you with your flexibility and also muscle resiliency.

This will lead to greater flexibility and openness in all other aspects of our life too — Our body is a great teacher.

States should use the flexibility provided by ESSA to increase transparency so that parents, teachers, and everyone who has a stake in education will have the information they need to make decisions that help students excel.

With this in mind, we provide a framework for each lesson, but there is great flexibility for how a teacher may want to implement the lessons.

Some of the areas on which students are asked to comment are teacher preparation, knowledge of subject, organization and neatness, flexibility in accommodating individual student needs, and returning homework in a timely manner.

Once the rules are in place and students understand logical consequences, teachers can move on to other aspects of the Responsive Classroom approach, such as Academic Choice, which gives students more flexibility in their learning.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

A large piece in leveraging the master schedule is programming flexibilities that meet your students» and teachers» needs, so I create the master schedule during the summer.

The Finnish Education System therefore can be characterised by trust, freedom, flexibility and a concern to put the wellbeing of children at the forefront, with teachers contributing to a supportive and close relationship with their students balanced with delivering appropriate content and providing a high standard of academic direction in an equitable manner.

Even in the minority of cases where flexibility was granted, teachers reported still being expected to undertake work - related activities on days they were not supposed to be working, invariably without payment.

Alongside this increased flexibility, it provides an opportunity for teachers to gain a wider range of experiences working in a variety of different schools.

John Tomsett, Headteacher of Huntington School in York, commented on the need for more flexibility: «A third of our 100 + teachers are part - timers.

This flexibility of the curriculum framework in both programs acknowledges that students are uniquely different, putting them in command of building their own skill sets beyond the teachers» sense of instructional agency.

States vary in their approaches toward teacher certification, regulatory flexibility, and other issues.

Ms Morgan has asked the STRB to consider whether teachers could «move down from the upper pay range to the main pay range» in order to allow schools more flexibility.

Even though there's flexibility in terms of a delivery method, analysis of the learning summaries revealed the overwhelming majority of activities (82 per cent) were face - to - face, 8 per cent were online, private research and study undertaken by the teacher accounted for 4 per cent and 1 per cent, respectively, and 5 per cent involved teachers setting up and working in a school community of practice.

Teachers routinely encourage students to keep trying, approach tasks with flexibility and manage their impulsivity in the classroom.

Extra flexibility was introduced by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan in September 2015 which allowed head teachers the freedom to give larger pay rises to the best or most experienced teaching staff.

What teachers experience as a result will in turn depend on how states use that flexibility.

They believe that the Common Core will limit the flexibility that teachers have to teach what they think is best (though the Common Core actually establishes guidelines for what students should know and be able to do while allowing educators to use their professional expertise to teach in the ways they think will help students meet those guidelines).

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

He addressed K - 12 education, too, but only on the «compulsory attendance» and «teacher quality» fronts — and while the latter hinted at merit pay and nodded at schools having the flexibility to «replace» instructors «who just aren't helping kids learn» — mostly what he did was urge more money for schools - as - we - know - them and those who teach in their classrooms.

The opportunity for teachers to retire early exacerbates the measurement challenge, as early retirement programs give teachers greater flexibility in deciding when they leave teaching.

Duncan responded that states have a lot of flexibility within the waivers in how they evaluate their teachers.

«As long as we get the ends, we have a lot of flexibility to decide on the means,» said Lynni Nordheim, 30, a 4th - grade teacher who came to the school after teaching six years in Las Vegas.

Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.

Relatively few leaders have pushed to the envelope's edge when exploring flexibility within the salary schedule or have emulated the aggressive tenor of Joel Klein's Teacher Performance Unit in seeking to evaluate and remove teachers within the constraints imposed by state law.

Finally, we find evidence that school districts behave strategically by retaining teachers who have endorsements in multiple areas and therefore provide flexibility in terms of the classes they can teach.

Tenacity, flexibility, and teamwork in great abundance — all essential for these teachers.

In this scenario, the teacher has the flexibility to continue asking questions until he or she is reasonably confident about the student's level of proficiency.

While the district has insisted that all teachers and schools adopt the «balanced» approach to reading, schools are given considerable flexibility in matters of instructionâ $» as long as they put instruction in phonics front and center.

For teachers just getting started with technology, or those looking for flexibility in a BYOD (bring your own device) environment, QR codes still have an important place in a tech - friendly classroom.

They will be able to hire and maintain a teaching force with the goal of higher test scores in mind, and they will have more flexibility than public schools do to reward or punish their teachers on the basis of test results.

Flexibility — With the help of your advisor, you are free to choose eight (8) courses from across the HGSE catalog — and across Harvard University — that provide you with the theoretical grounding and best practices to be an effective teacher and leader in a wide variety of educational settings.

Teachers emphasized time management (setting the number of days and then building in a 20 percent overrun), flexibility (being prepared to give alternative instruction to reinforce subject matter versus knowing when to maintain a deadline), and priming (starting project dialogue and setting expectations early).

And there was enough flexibility in the system to reward or promote excellent teachers.

In exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performancIn exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performancin part on student performance.

Just five of the teacher contracts in the nation's largest school districts grant school leaders the kind of flexibility they need to run schools well, but two - thirds of the rest do not obviously hamstring administrators with rules applying to teachers, according to a report released today by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

At its best, online learning can catalyze new heights of flexibility — in path, pace, place, space, and teacher - student interactions — amidst an education landscape that has long looked more like an industrial production line.

I think the performance assessments that should make the most difference for students should be developed by teachers to reflect state standards and the school's curriculum and provide flexibility so that students can show their capacity in multiple ways.

But an initial reading of the department's guidance suggests it is sticking to these policies: «The Department will work with states that wish to amend (their federal) flexibility waiver... while still maintaining teacher and leader evaluation and support systems that include growth in student learning.»

A new study analyzing changes at North Carolina's 44 teacher - education colleges during the enrollment decline of the past decade has found that those colleges committed to maintaining high standards are losing the most students because they have no flexibility in the present market.

The attachment pages are provided so that teachers can have flexibility in how they are used i.e., within the classroom or as individual home study activities.