Sentences with phrase «teacher surveys given»

Fewer than one - fifth of the teachers surveyed gave the top rating to their schools in preparing students to learn.

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On the back of the shirts were the results of a survey his teacher, Maureen Boland, had given to him and his 120 classmates.

One 2003 survey found that it would take a hypothetical 50 percent salary hike to get half the unionized teachers to give up tenure.

Elia, in a statement, says she's happy to work with the commission, but she says she and the New York State Board of Regents have already begun reviewing Common Core and will soon begin a statewide survey that will give teachers, and parents the opportunity to comment on what's wrong with the standards and how to fix them.

So Gehlbach and his research team designed something that helps: a get - to - know - you survey, which they gave to 315 ninth - graders and 25 of their teachers.

A student survey allows students to voice their issues, needs, and desires, giving feedback on how a teacher can change his or her instruction to help them perform better in class.

Teachers and pupils gave it top marks, with 92 per cent of teachers surveyed saying that pupils were more engaged with learning when outdoors and 85 per cent seeing a positive impact on their beTeachers and pupils gave it top marks, with 92 per cent of teachers surveyed saying that pupils were more engaged with learning when outdoors and 85 per cent seeing a positive impact on their beteachers surveyed saying that pupils were more engaged with learning when outdoors and 85 per cent seeing a positive impact on their behaviour.

Our sample of more than 4,200 respondents, including oversamples of parents and teachers, also gives us the chance to experiment with some of the survey questions in order to tease out nuances in public opinion.

For instrumental teachers, the Musicians Union will give useful advice on the nuts and bolts of setting up a private teaching practice, and the Incorporated Society of Musicians will present the latest results from its tuition fees survey and provide tips on setting and negotiating rates.

Allegretto and Mishel calculate the value of the pension benefits that teachers earn in a given year based on how much their employers contributed to their retirement plans in that year, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics» Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC) survey.

For the team at Huntington, the survey, which was given to more than 1,000 students and 130 teachers, revealed an issue that did not surprise social studies teacher Ken Donovan: empathy.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Education Next annual survey of a nationally representative sample of Americans and of teachers presents 2016 opinions on education policy together with trends in opinion among the general public and among teachers, giving special attention to the differing views of Republicans and Democrats.

Once the survey was done, Huntington and the other 50 middle and high schools that took part in the initiative were given reports in clear, accessible language that summarized the results, plus a set of resources and customized strategies that teachers and principals could use to make changes based on their results.

If the teacher is getting exemplary student - achievement gains and student survey reports, a school leader should give the teacher the leeway to use a different instructional style.

Mary Lau, Digital Marketing Manager at Action Storage, said: «It's interesting to see that so many survey respondents believe giving teachers and students more control over education could be the key to real change.

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

At the end of Term 1 last year, teachers were asked to give their feedback in a survey.

Likewise, if a teacher is performing well on the classroom observations and student surveys but had lower - than - expected student - achievement gains, a school leader might give the teacher the benefit of the doubt for another year and hope that student achievement gains will rise.

Still, he said his surveys suggest that between 8 and 10 percent of teachers are absent on any given day, and there's some anecdotal evidence on his side.

In that letter, I gave teachers a link to a survey I had created on the CreateSurvey Web site.

In a survey on LOtC in 2010 (NFER Teacher Voice), 87 per cent of teachers felt it was important to give children experiences beyond the classroom.

The survey of 6,350 students in Chicago, Houston, Oakland, Calif., Philadelphia, and St. Louis during the 2003 - 04 school year showed that students generally give their teachers high marks, but say they need stronger relationships with members of the school staff.

Released last week, the survey shows that 92 percent of teachers rate student engagement as an «excellent» or «good» measure of teaching performance, while 72 percent gave the same ratings to measuring how their own students compare with other students.

Some 71 percent of high - school juniors and seniors rate their teachers as «excellent» or «good,» while only 36 percent give their schools similarly high marks, according to a survey released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and Sylvan Learning Centers.

Mathematica's survey of online school leaders gives important insight as to why students may not be making gains: online charter schools offer only 3 to 6 hours of «synchronous» (teachers and students in «live» contact online) instruction per week; school leaders say they struggle the most with student engagement; and it's clear that parents are expected to play an active role in instruction and in making sure that students stay on track.

Seventy percent of the teachers surveyed also gave «excellent» or «good» ratings to using feedback from principals and administrators...

Teachers» pay continues to be cut because schools are increasingly failing to give them cost of living increases as well as denying them pay progression, according to the National Education Union's annual national pay survey.

We teamed up with Stanford University to survey teacher sentiment on the platform: 90 per cent of 10,000 teachers rated the resources they used as above - average in both quality and relevance, and more than 30 per cent gave the maximum score for both categories.

• Survey respondents also suggested that giving power to students, teachers and heads could see schools across the UK improve

Over the span of three years, dozens of education experts and researchers, 3,000 teacher volunteers in six urban districts, 20,000 videotaped lessons, student surveys, and student performance on state and supplemental higher - order thinking skills tests, have given us a much better understanding of what great teaching looks like.

Given these perceived deficits in key skills, it is not surprising that 80 % of teachers surveyed say they spend class time discussing with students how to assess the reliability of online information, and 71 % spend class time discussing how to conduct research online in general.

According to a nationwide survey to be released soon by the National Education Association (nea), more than one in three of the 1,326 elementary - and secondary - school teachers chosen randomly from different - sized school districts across the country said they «certainly» or «probably» would not become teachers again if they were given the choice.

Student surveys picked the three «meanest» teachers in the school to «pie,» along with school director Maisie Wright, and they in turn got to honor, or dishonor, three students with pies in the face, perhaps students who had overcome great challenges, or who gave them the most grief.

The CCSR's 6th - and 8th - grade surveys ask students to respond to a series of questions about the personal support they receive from their teachers for their schoolwork, questions that addressed whether they believe their teacher was willing to give them extra help or noticed if they were having trouble learning something.

From the survey data we estimated that in 1994 teachers were spending an average of about 10.5 hours a year on test preparation activities such as giving practice tests and teaching test - taking strategies.

Public - opinion surveys suggest that the proposal — which ties hiring, firing, and transfer decisions to teacher effectiveness, while still giving some consideration to seniority — may be more popular than the merit - pay or school - voucher proposals.

The ways teacher dissatisfaction is captured, like in the IES staffing surveys, is mostly from a self - interested position, rather than giving them the space to express concern for students or about being stewards of the profession.

Given this weak statistical evidence of positive relationships between student achievement and district or school data use (as reflected in the principal and teacher survey items), we turned to our qualitative data, which provided the following insights:

With 17,300 students, the district receives an abundance of information, including data from PARCC tests, districtwide pre - and post-common assessments in all content areas, Measures of Academic Progress in elementary and middle schools, Eureka Math and Achieve 3000 achievement scores, and professional - development surveys given to all teachers.

«Dr. Reed decided we should give our kids a survey and let our kids tell us, «Do our teachers know us?»»

The 2016 AAE national teacher survey will be released this month in an effort to give teachers a voice on the national stage.

We extend heartfelt thanks to the superintendents, principals, district administrators, teachers, school board and community members, and state leaders in education who welcomed us into their busy work lives, providing time to talk with us, to observe in classrooms, and to complete surveys, all of which gave us the most complete national data set ever assembled to better understand issues in educational leadership.

In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary teachers early in their careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.

Besides that one decrease on the survey, all other beginning teachers either gave the same positive response or increased in their opinion that the technology tools helped them to improve their practice.

The composite grades given by the 1,326 teachers who responded to the National Survey are unpacked below.

While superintendents were given the survey about whether to continue CIITS, Floyd encouraged them to get input from principals, teachers and technology coordinators.

«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.

The NCTQ, a non-partisan advocacy group that receives support from the Gates Foundation among others, gave California an overall grade of D - plus in its seventh annual survey of policies that affect teacher preparation, evaluation and compensation.

The quantitative data gathered from the Teacher Disposition Survey gave the researchers a midproject glimpse into the overall impact of the technology - based resources.

The UTLA survey, announced in a press release, reflected responses from 4,462 members and found that once teachers had been given professional development, their confidence in being able to teach CCSS greatly increases.