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Not exact matches
Replacing the poorest performing 5 to 8 percent of
teachers with an average
teacher would, by my calculations, yield improved
productivity and growth that amounts to trillions of dollars.
* Equip
teachers with productivity tools to help them manage instruction, find the right content for their class, and save time spent on repetitive, mundane paperwork.
Some
teachers provided more information than others, but the essentials of the student's
productivity and accomplishments that week — including information about homework completion, test and project scores, major upcoming assignments, and classroom behavior — were related
with consistent clarity.
My own research suggests that replacing just 5 % to 8 % of the least effective
teachers with an average
teacher would noticeably boost the achievement of our current students and would pay off lavishly in the future, through their enhanced
productivity and faster economic growth.
The only way to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is to help excellent
teachers increase their
productivity: swap portions of excellent
teachers» time
with digital instruction so they can teach more classes
with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks to other adults; use digital tools to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other
teachers; and let the willing have more students to nurture under their strong wings.
There's a misleading sense that «
productivity» is somehow at odds
with nurturing students or valuing
teachers.
Jacob infers from these results that «many of the initial nonrenewal decisions were not idiosyncratic, stemming from a particularly bad match... but reflected a concern
with the
teacher's general
productivity.»
In the long run, if
teachers are not paid in accordance
with their
productivity, many will leave teaching, and similarly productive workers will choose not to enter the profession.
Meanwhile, supplementary materials provide the
teacher with guidelines for final team presentations, as well as tools to measure things like student motivation, engagement, and
productivity — necessary because most
teachers aren't going to know instinctively how to grade something as abstract as video game skills.
He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating
teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative
productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled
with.»
The effectiveness of the model has been studied in over 20 years of research and field - testing about: (a) the effectiveness of the model as perceived by key groups, such as principals,
teachers, students, and parents; (b) research related to student creative
productivity; (c) research relating to personal and social development; (d) the use of SEM
with culturally diverse or special needs populations; (e) research on student self - efficacy; (f) the use of SEM as a curricular framework; (g) research relating to learning styles and curriculum compacting; and (h) longitudinal research on the SEM.
The
productivity picture is made worse by the resistance of schools to augment
teachers» efforts
with new instructional technologies.
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In short, the education research community needs to prime the pump of evidence - based education
with a supply of research findings that are of immediate relevance to workaday decision - making, e.g., recruiting tools that enhance the effectiveness of the workforce; ways to increase the
productivity of the central office; and differences in the impact of available curriculum materials for particular types of
teachers and students.
For example, administrators and
teachers from each school undertook professional learning sessions
with CESA's Learning and Technology Team to more fully understand how to use LiveTiles to improve student engagement and increase classroom
productivity.
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Teacher Tools are a set of
productivity tools that make it easy for educators to share free, educational and inspiring resources from PBS LearningMedia
with their students in a way that engages students while teaching them 21st century skills.
With the increased
productivity and efficiency afforded to our
teachers through the use of technology, our
teachers can spend more time teaching to our students» individual needs and aspirations.
Most of these
teachers reported that they were applying their gained knowledge and skills by regularly using technology «to improve their efficiency and
productivity, especially for tasks such as maintaining attendance, grades, data on students; creating instructional materials; and communicating
with staff members and other colleagues» (Maryland State Department of Education, 2002, p. 2).
In the right panel, the
teacher's
productivity profile (solid) is compared
with the profile for her school (dashed).
In order to provide preservice
teachers with the exposure and experience they need to become comfortable
with technology beyond
productivity and social networking,
teacher preparation programs must examine the best methods for providing the needed information, whether through modeling, explicit instruction, or collaboration during the practicum (Jones, Cunningham & Stewart, 2005; Keeler, 2008; West & Graham, 2007; Williams & Foulger, 2007).
Technology integration in accordance
with the technology standards goes above and beyond what Graham et al. (2009) called
productivity or
teacher presentation of information.
She became a principal to provide other
teachers with the tools, guidance and partnership that helped shape her own career, and to build a team that would continuously bring about growth and
productivity in a school community.
He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating
teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over-placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative
productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled
with.»
«Contrary to the claims of advocates of
teacher merit pay, relatively few private - sector workers have pay that varies in a direct formulaic way
with their
productivity — and the share of such workers is probably declining,» Haywood states.
These findings are important as they document large improvements in the joint
productivity of
teachers in low - performing schools, a finding which is out of step
with current federal efforts to improve schools that implicitly assume
teacher productivity is essentially fixed over time.
Such an approach requires skilled
teacher advisors working
with the students and well designed project management systems to insure both
productivity and academic rigor.
They provide students
with appropriate, immediate feedback and
teachers with realtime, actionable data to improve classroom management and
productivity.
Until the issue is resolved at an upcoming school board meeting,
with the board insisting the language of their policy is to blame and that it is not their intent to steal students» work, policies like this one stand to have a severe detrimental affect on
teacher creativity and student
productivity.
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Such short - term benefits include decreased classroom disruptions, improvement in
teacher ratings of the child's ADHD behavior, improvement in compliance
with adult requests, improvement in peer interactions, and increase in on - task behavior and academic
productivity.
Early evaluation results from Newark, NJ, show that Foundations of Learning improved
teachers» classroom management and
productivity, reduced children's conflict
with peers, and engaged students in the learning tasks of preschool.