Sentences with phrase «teachers and pupils benefit»

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Benefits have been capped, teachers given power to discipline yob pupils, a military covenant has been enshrined in law, council tax frozen, and the Right to Buy is back.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said «It is important that pupils who need extra support with their learning receive that targeted help, however neither pupils nor teachers benefit if they are being overburdened with excessive hours of additional lessons which are eating into weekends, holidays and break times.

Pupils and teachers attending Pyrford Primary School will benefit from a completely new school, with high levels of natural light and increased access and space for outdoor play and learning.

Clearly, such an important asset in the teachers» toolkit to benefit their pupils» cognitive and interpersonal skills can not be hampered by concerns over risk and liability issues, especially when third parties such as the STF exist to provide solid reassurance.

Ever since the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) manifesto was launched in 2008, highlighting the powerful educational value of school trips, when asked whether the benefits of taking pupils on educational visits outweigh concerns over cost and safety, teachers and instructors have always answered with a resounding «yes».

This is a benefit for teachers as they do not have to book resources in advance, and also facilitates more opportunities for pupil - led learning.

This highlights that time properly researching the different resources available, as well as a clearly thought out plan for how to use digital resources, can play an important role in ensuring that the most appropriate material is used and both pupils and teachers benefit from them.

He added: «Together with our reforms to improve behaviour and plans to crack down on truancy by deducting the cost of unpaid fines from child benefit, we have put heads and teachers firmly back in charge of their classrooms so they can extend opportunity and give the pupils the best start to life.»

Wand Education trials show teachers are able to «work less hours outside the classroom and pupils are getting more benefit from teaching»

Respondents claimed tasks such as attending meetings and data entry analysis were required by head teachers but were ultimately of little benefit to pupils.

Our «Transforming Learning» research looks even further beyond these benefits to analyse with teachers and pupils how new flipped, challenge ‑ based and blended learning methods compare with more traditional methods.

The move to online personalised assessments for reading and numeracy will benefit pupils, parents and teachers.»

The need to improve the overall lighting output for the benefit of pupils and teachers was another important impetus behind the project.»

While the pupils above were making important changes to the benefit of their personal and social development, they and their class mates were also learning about rivers and the hydrological cycle, co-operative working, and many other things that supported the work of the class teacher.

With the research project's next stage due in the autumn term, expected to include quantitative figures, all eyes are on the schools in question; but evidence to date shows that schools, pupils, teachers and parents are all benefiting.

The basic building blocks for calculating the cost per pupil of the various policies Picus and Odden propose are the approximate average expenditure of $ 7,800 per pupil and average teacher compensation (salary plus benefits) of $ 60,000 for the state of Washington.

The school is clearly benefitting from «enhanced learning» since the integration of Apple technology, which, opened up a world of opportunity for pupils and teachers.

Pupils and teachers attending Pyrford Primary School will benefit from a completely new school, withhigh levels of natural light and increased access and space for outdoor play and learning.

As a competition, we believe the «Art of Food» has key benefits for both pupils and teachers.

«This financial support will benefit pupils, teachers, and the wider community.

Our partnership will benefit schools, teachers and children alike as we look to minimise disruption to pupils» education across the country.»

Johnson found that the difference is tied to the fact that schools under court supervision benefit from higher per - pupil spending and smaller student - teacher ratios.

The 31 schools in the pilot will be the first to benefit from specialist support for both pupils and teachers in the country.

Primary teachers will benefit from the continued decline in pupil - teacher ratios (20.3 in the maintained sector and 20.8 in academies).

One way we can achieve immediate results that benefit both teachers and their pupils is by stripping away some of that unnecessary workload that we see in schools.

Incredibly, the Empire State spends more on a per pupil basis on employee benefits than reform leaders Tennessee and Florida spend on teacher salaries.»

It's an eye - catching list of benefits, and comes from a large body of research that additionally explains, perhaps even more impressively, that pupils of these same teachers benefit from greater motivation, increased enthusiasm for subjects, improved performance in tests and greater fluency and sophistication in their answers.

Philippa Cordingley from the Centre for the Use of Research Evidence in Education (CUREE) was one of the lead researchers in this area and explains that «What's sauce for the goose, in this case the pupils, is sauce for the gander — the teachers», i.e. if we practiced in CPD what we preach in the classroom then the whole profession could benefit.

In general, unless otherwise exempt, the following three criteria must be met in order for non-classroom based charters to be guaranteed full funding levels: (1) at least 80 percent of total revenues must be spent on instruction or classroom support, (2) at least 50 percent of public revenues must be spent on certificated staff salaries and benefits, and (3) the pupil - teacher ratio must be equal to or lower than the pupil - teacher ratio in the largest unified school district in the county or counties in which the school operates or the school must maintain a minimum of 25:1 ratio.

We expect schools to see improvements in outcomes for pupils through their engagement with us, but we also expect leaders, teachers and other staff to benefit professionally from the process, and to enjoy the experience.

The implementation of good quality professional development will benefit teachers, school leaders and the government (as well as pupils and parents) and as such, all of the above should take responsibility for supporting its implementation and embedding a culture where it is valued and desired.

In such circumstances, both schools and their staff are under enormous pressure and, despite the undoubted benefits of investing and engaging in staff professional development, truly effective professional development, which is collaborative, pupil focused and teacher driven, gets pushed aside.

«I remain committed to the ambition of providing all teachers and leaders with the right skills and knowledge to benefit pupils and make sure schools can deliver the new curriculum and vision for education in Wales.»

Guess what; it dramatically increased teacher and management work load without any benefit to the pupils, and after 4 years, we have the researchers from LSE making it clear that PRP per se does not work - https://www.tes.com/news/performance-related-pay-ineffective-schools-study-finds.

Though some teachers thought that the transcripts were of benefit to children, many classes did not follow the live transcripts and some teachers actively discouraged pupils from following the live transcript during whole - class teaching.

The pilot study found that the Visible Classroom approach is feasible and has the potential to make an impact on teacher practice that may lead to benefits in pupils» learning.

Overall, teachers were positive about the Visible Classroom approach, and believed that it had the potential to benefit both themselves and their pupils.

Pupil learning can also benefit from partnerships between special and mainstream schools, collaboration between various professionals, improved teacher skills and «better learning environments», the report said.

«We need to give both teachers and pupils more credit for tackling languages and focus on the long - term benefits of being able to speak another language,» Ms Tinsley said.

«Earlier this year, the Education Endowment Foundation found that awarding grades for every piece of work may reduce the benefit of marking, particularly if pupils become preoccupied with their grades at the expense of teachers» comments, and some forms of marking are unlikely to improve pupil progress.»

Ms Hillier added: «It is a basic point but one worth spelling out for the government's benefit: variations in the supply and quality of teachers at local level can significantly affect pupils» educational attainment and life prospects.

However, academics also warned that poorer pupils don't benefit from extra reading time unless they are guided by a skilled teacher, and a teaching union claimed schools would struggle to find the extra time in the day.

The guide also includes the best ways to make sure that the relationship between head teachers and their governing boards is conducted in the right spirit and the most professional way, for the benefit of pupils.»

Interestingly, teachers themselves recognise that collaboration can bring significant benefits, with 55 % saying it can result in better education outcomes for pupils (55 %) and 62 % believing it offers teachers more career development opportunities.

The school's girl pupils had benefited from female teachers acting as role models and encouraging talent in science, technology, engineering and maths.

Pupils are more engaged, teachers are confident teaching science, children are being inspired by science and schools are reaping the benefits of cross curricular improvements from using Empiribox.

We now have a much greater understanding of how schools can make a difference, and, although there are still too many young people failing to achieve their potential, by underpinning our national system of schools with the values and the five key points outlined in this report, we believe both the learning of pupils and the professional development of teachers will benefit greatly.»

Having grown to become the UK's largest graduate recruiter, the charity now works with more than a thousand schools in low income areas, and through its teachers and leaders has benefitted more than one million pupils.

«It is a basic point but one worth spelling out for the government's benefit: variations in the supply and quality of teachers at local level can significantly affect pupils» educational attainment and life prospects.»

The idea is that universities can use the lab schools as testbeds, to improve their research and teacher training even as pupils and their families benefit from their state - of - the art grasp of the teaching profession.