Sentences with phrase «teacher improvement efforts»

Teachers should be utilized for professional learning research, as they have firsthand exposure to the impact of teacher improvement efforts.

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Teachers who do this well set aside time for revision, offer specific comments for improvement while conveying the belief that the student is capable, and then value the revision effort.

This organization, according to its Web site, creates «opportunities for kids, teachers, and parents to lead efforts to implement environmental and health improvements in their schools and communities.»

The Washington - based research organization, which supports deregulation and market - driven school improvement efforts, gives the United States as a whole a D - plus in its report, «The Quest for Better Teachers: Grading the States.»

It is a way of helping teachers know how much time a particular question requires from some students, and if they're getting better; if not, what further efforts should be made for their improvement.

Effective professional development is often seen as vital to school success and teacher satisfaction, but it has also been criticized for its cost, often vaguely determined goals, and for the lack of data on resulting teacher and school improvement that characterizes many efforts.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed.

TheWashington Post's Jay Mathews pointed out, in 2012, that the new assessments would «delay, if not stop altogether, the national move toward rating teachers by student score improvements» and that radical change would force systems «to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests» before they could resume those efforts.

All of these schools are high - poverty, and these teachers are no strangers to repeated «school improvement» efforts that can easily provoke skepticism.

He proposes creating new roles for teachers that let them continue to work in the classroom while being given opportunities to shape education policy and give feedback on improvement efforts.

The team is made up of top teachers recruited with a promise that they could lead the school's improvement effort while earning a $ 6,000 - per - year stipend.

Id like to suggest, therefore, that this month all parents and teachers make a renewed effort to form positive relationships with one another; to forget the need for improvement in the child and concentrate instead on the need for improvement in the interactions between the childs parents and teachers.

The tax increases will underwrite $ 187 million in capital improvements to schools, $ 35.7 million in pay raises for teachers, and other elements of the desegregation effort.

Which teacher is going to welcome teaching the most demanding and difficult pupils if they know that, despite their best efforts, those pupils are not going to make the required improvements in their grades to meet the teacher's objectives?

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

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 performance.

Minimally effective teachers who chose to stay at DCPS improved their performance by roughly 11 - points on the IMPACT scale, suggesting that threat of dismissal lead to successful instructional improvement efforts.

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.

-LSB-...] instruction, providing quality feedback to teachers, focusing our efforts on strategies that work (Hattie's work), sustaining this improvement work over time (years), ensuring the parents are informed and -LSB-...]

Instead, teachers view leadership as a collaborative effort, a «banding together» with other teachers to promote professional development and growth and the improvement of educational services (Troen & Boles, 1992).

Indeed, improving the quality of teachers has been a core strategy for school improvement in the New York City (NYC) reform effort.

The department shall require school districts and BOCES to report on an annual basis information related to the school district's efforts to address the performance of teachers whose performance is evaluated as unsatisfactory, including information related to the implementation of teacher improvement plans for teachers so evaluated.

Maryland's legislative effort to funnel more money to schools for everything from textbooks to teacher salaries is resulting in educational improvements, concludes a preliminary report.

Who Should Attend: Principals, assistant principals, department heads, classroom teachers, and coaches, members of school networks, leaders of school improvement and turnaround efforts

We examined teachers «perceptions of principals «efforts to involve others, and teachers «descriptions of their own leadership for improvement (measured by sense of collective responsibility and the development of shared norms and values).

«I am excited to build on these efforts to see if we can scale - up programs and practices that catalyze improvements in both teacher practice and student outcomes.»

And, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the rest.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

Teachers and school leaders know the improvements are due to their unremitting efforts to do their best for every child and young person, whatever their background, and despite the relentless changes to the curriculum, tests and exams, imposed by the Government, that have added to their workload over the past few years.

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.

If teachers have more influence in decision making and practice shared leadership, they believe parents are also more likely to have influence and be involved actively in school improvement efforts.167 Since other research has confirmed this relationship, we kept both constructs in the remaining analyses.

At Playa Junior High School, for example, the principal sought school improvement through an effort to get teachers to be less didactic in their teaching, to broaden their repertoires of instructional strategies, and to focus on higher - order learning expectations.

In particular, principals in more disadvantaged school settings are likely to need more professional development and support in their efforts to sustain practices and behaviors that will increase the involvement of others — teachers and parents — in the work of improvement.

Our session, titled «Cultivating Literacy Achievement Through Quality Teacher Preparation,» touched on current program - improvement efforts, revision of the ILA standards for program recognition, variations in licensure requirements across the country, and policy - related challenges.

And, a growing body of empirical research shows that positive school climate improvement efforts increase academic achievement, reduce bully - victim - bystander behavior as well as student dropout rates and increase teacher retention rates.

He worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to design and develop the free, Web - based Data - Based Decision Making Tool: A Resource for Teachers (www.edvantia.org/dbdm), a comprehensive guide for developing and implementing school improvement efforts; and also developed the Web - based version of the K - 12 Total Cost of Ownership, or TCO, Calculator (www.edvantia.org/tco), which is based on the work of the Integrated Technology in Education Group.

Thus, as the federal government continues to review and approve states» plans and states begin to implement their new accountability frameworks and school improvement strategies, they must work together to remember the teachers standing in front of our nation's classrooms — for they are critical to all of these other efforts and, ultimately, will have the most impact on their students» learning.

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.

Despite the best efforts of the teachers to provide leadership for their school, along with efforts by the district to establish formal teacher - leadership positions, the combined effects of frequent principal turnover and frequent teacher turnover made it impossible for this school to sustain any momentum in its improvement efforts.

Collegiality involves a group of teachers working together on developing goals, improvement efforts, and assessments.

Because research clearly shows that teacher expertise is the most significant school - based influence on student learning, one would think that investments in enhancing teacher expertise would be a major focus of school improvement efforts.

School leaders should create a broad - based site council — composed of administrators, teachers, support staff members, parents, community members, and students when appropriate — that is responsible for overseeing school improvement efforts.

Heller and Firestone (1995) provided evidence of the positive impact of collaboration on leadership functions shared by principals and teacher leaders, such as obtaining resources, providing encouragement, and monitoring improvement efforts.

To that end, the Quality Schools Program provides a three - year, comprehensive approach to charter school development and implementation that leverages continuous improvement efforts to positively affect students, teachers and leaders.Teams interested in the Quality Schools Program should contact Dr. Ildi Laczko - Kerr, [email protected] or 602-944-0644.

Teens from the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team spent time surveying peers, teachers, principals, and superintendents in an effort to determine exactly how Kentucky schools leverage student voice as a tool for school improvement.

The schools investigated in this book were low - performing schools that needed school improvement efforts in many areas, including, but not limited to, school culture, community support, behavioral expectations, curriculum needs, and expectations for both students and teachers.

Policymakers and educators frequently use teacher perception surveys to inform state and local school improvement efforts.

We've collaborated with the Collaboration for Effective Educators Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Center and The National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) as well as launched a diverse coalition of organizations to support states in their efforts to develop teachers and leader who can successfully prepare students with disabilities to achieve college and career - ready standards.

It's about creating conditions where all staff, especially teachers, can rapidly increase their effectiveness through meaningful professional learning aligned with improvement efforts, receive actionable feedback based on data, and take advantage of increased time for collaboration and instructional coaching.