Sentences with phrase «teacher input on»

I believe it is very important that state leaders truly hear teacher input on this matter.

District and school administration often set up temporary task forces and committees of teachers to solicit and provide teacher input on decision making.

Here's a simple activity you can use for getting teacher input on which behaviors to track — download it here and use it for revising behaviors from last year or generating a new list altogether.

That message was from one teacher in Rep. Rick Glazier's district, who refused to take part in a principal's brainstorming session seeking teacher input on selecting the 25 percent of teachers who would get 4 - year contracts with raises.

Not exact matches

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

I'm aware of the fact that I'm not a biblical scholar or trained teacher, so I'll be relying on (and sharing) a variety of sources and will certainly welcome input and challenges.

First, remember that your kids aren't «too old» for you to reach out to their teachers for input on how to resolve this issue.

They boil down to climate (warm and friendly behavior), input (the tendency for teachers to devote more energy to their special students), output (the way teachers call on those students more often for answers) and feedback (giving generally more helpful responses to the students for whom teachers have the highest hopes).

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

To help teachers achieve this, together with input from Microsoft, Google, Cambridge University Computer Science department, Computing at Schools (CAS) a BCS partner, has created a model computing curriculum to which Gove referred to in his announcement at BETT and which has also features in the recent DfE consultation document on the subject of ICT in schools.

The schools and classrooms where I've seen the strongest relationship - based cultures are ones where students have input on establishing norms and processes, where team building happens throughout the year so that students and teachers know each other well, and, on the teacher level, where teachers have regular opportunities to collaborate to design meaningful PBL experiences for students and discuss student supports.

What kind of input do educators on the ground (teachers / principals) have in policy making?

Muralidharan evaluated four different facets of the program including the impact of performance pay on learning, whether it led to any negative consequences on the teachers, the difference between group incentives and individual, and the relative effectiveness of teacher performance pay versus spending the same money on additional school inputs.

«As a parent, it is wise to read widely in this area, and ask for input from childcare and kindergarten teachers and others, but ultimately you need to make a decision — an informed gut feeling — based on your child.»

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

This effect is similar in size to those found in evaluations of primary - school inputs» impacts on postsecondary outcomes, such as being assigned to a teacher who is particularly effective in raising student test scores.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

«Unfortunately,» Chavez told Education World, «this teacher is one who occupies my thinking when I am working on issues to present to staff, soliciting input, and other interactive tasks.

Our current system is laden with input regulations like textbook mandates, certification requirements, and notches on teachers» professional - development belts.

Teachers» notes and answers included along with starter activity, teaching input (including video link) and choice of 2 plenary activities all on the PowerPoint.

The teacher input can vary depending on age and ability, but there is scope to delve deeper into the relationship between Atman and Brahman and Moksha and A-level students tend to give much more analytical answers when reflecting on their experience of the meditation.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

This is when Crellin teachers often turn to their students for input on what they find the most interesting.

Teachers receive introductory and ongoing training on how to use the program to access student data and input grades and notes for their students.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

ADHD has been a controversial topic since the 1970's with politicians, teachers, family and the media all having varying input and opinions on the topic.

Our teams and committees have input on everything from the budget, goal - setting, and school - wide discipline to where to hold the end - of - year luncheon and superlatives for teachers.

It includes: -1 x Worksheet - 1x Answer sheet to save a teacher some time during marking -1 x SMART Notebook for teacher input - The Notebook includes a quick starter, warm - up (multiplication wheel) and several questions based on the LO.

For WHOLE LESSON, click here ** This resource was made taking account of the National Curriculum Framework 2014 ** The SMART Notebook is for teacher input - The Notebook includes a quick starter, warm - up (multiplication wheel) and several questions based on the LO.

In so doing, they made sure that the quasi-regulations would play on their terms by focusing on student outcomes — not on inputs like the type of training teachers should have that would limit their ability to innovate.

Previous waves of reform had focused on inputs, intentions, and regulation: boost the credentials and pay of teachers; increase course requirements for high - school graduation; mandate lower class sizes; etc..

Furthermore, tests should be created with the input of classroom teachers throughout the design process, from start to finish, to actively solicit our feedback on alignment, bias, and logistics.

«There is a synergistic partnership formed based on the mutual respect parents, teachers, staff, students, and administrators have for one another's expertise, caring, and input.»

Cake sales, bring and buy sales, summer fairs and discos are all high on the fun factor, but bring little individuality or personal contribution to the children taking part, and all require enormous organisational input and time sacrifice by teachers and parents.

That means it will be critical for teachers and parents to help children develop sophistication and taste, and learn how to assess a source, how to detect persuasion and manipulation, and how to synthesize their own views based on multiple inputs.

On the paid end, Tynker has a program for classroom use that teaches basic coding concepts without a lot of teacher input.

Duration: 50/60 minutes depending on teacher input.

That approach deflates some of the negativism and hesitation that might interfere with the teachers listening to and applying what you're teaching, and it shows them that you recognize their frustrations; and implies that you acted on their input when making improvements.

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

Is it fair to say you'll be designing «on the go» then, from the student and teacher feedback and input at various stages?

For too long our professional development systems have focused on the quality of the professional development «inputs» provided to teachers to improve their professional practice, with unfortunately little evidence of improvement or linkage to any «outputs» of a change in instructional practice.

At this point all teacher input stopped and the teams went on their way.

In addition to always being on the lookout for ways to use the local environment, Crellin teachers and staff ask for input from community members, parents, and even the students.

Regional meetings were conducted and an online API Survey sought input on new indicators from administrators, teachers, parents, guardians, students, school board members, educational organizations, community members, and business leaders.

Liberal critics charge the standards were written without sufficient input from parents and teachers, while conservatives see the standards as a federal intrusion on states» rights.

At any such point, is a random variable with Still conditioning on, consider counterfactual outcomes as varies over, averaging over the conditional distribution of given: There is a structural function interpretation for: within a school with, we can obtain potential expected output for various assigned values of the teacher input, holding constant the distribution of classroom characteristics (at the conditional distribution of given).

Previous waves of reform had focused on inputs, intentions, and regulation: Boost the credentials and pay of teachers; increase course requirements for high - school graduation; mandate lower class sizes; etc..

AfL tool to assess topics requiring teacher's input when starting unit on charts and graphs.

Work booklet on asking questions in German covers Y / N questions» formula (verb inversion) and W - questions (Wann / Wo / Was / Wie / Warum etc) PP presentation used as stimulus, contains plenty of activities to practise as class and runs alongside the booklet so teacher can input then students practise.

Data on inputs such as teacher training, disciplinary policies, attendance policies, and school resources may suggest important school - improvement strategies and should also be made available to parents.