Sentences with phrase «teachers at a disadvantage»

The curriculum - test misalignment places upper - track teachers at a disadvantage because of the misalignment between the test and course content, but this might be offset by the advantage of having students who are likely to make achievement gains for reasons having nothing to do with the teacher.

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For example, school would still be in session on these days, but teachers could be instructed not to have exams, quizzes, or projects due that day that would put an Islamic student at a disadvantage if he / she chose to stay home.

'' [T] he research offers no reason to believe that students in high - quality classrooms whose teachers give little or no homework would be at a disadvantage as regards any meaningful learning.»

«Having the shortest school day in the nation puts teachers and students at a disadvantage and it's time that we provided both with the tools they need to drive student success in the classroom,» said CPS CEO Jean - Claude Brizard.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

The disadvantage of this method of practice is that finding a studio with a convenient location, a good teacher, and with classes at the right times can be challenging.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

High - poverty schools may be at a disadvantage in hiring and retaining effective teachers as well.

Students of color and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at a disadvantage when it comes to teachers» expectations.

Teachers had little understanding of how to use test data to drive improvement and had given insufficient attention to implementing the national curriculum, putting Denmark at a disadvantage compared with other WA schools.

At the Teacher's Guide to Flipped Classroom you will be able to answer what is a flipped classroom, how does a flipped classroom contribute to student learning, the top benefits and disadvantages of a flipped classroom, and last but not least, how to successfully Flip your classroom.

If the classroom teacher has not adequately prepared students for the appearance of a substitute teacher, the substitute is at a grave disadvantage.

The new curriculum's focus on more intensive ICT lessons for children means that teachers who find technology a challenge are at something of a disadvantage.

For instance, they find that a disadvantaged black male's exposure to at least one black teacher in elementary school reduces his probability of dropping out of high school by nearly 40 percent.

While it is useful, there are a number of disadvantages, and there is a good number of teachers that are against emails at the classroom level.

As has been well documented, low - income schools and districts are at a disadvantage in the teacher labor market.

The Committee is currently inviting written submissions addressing the following topics: - The purpose of primary assessment and how well the current system meets this - The advantages and disadvantages of assessing pupils at primary school - How the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessment

Missouri should not have a system that puts our neediest communities at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting talented teachers and states should not impose a tariff on attracting quality teachers and school leaders.

Those include a reduction in class size at the primary level, a back to basics movement, the return to a phonics - based reading program, and the provision of incentives for teachers who agree to work in disadvantaged areas.

Last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in which he lamented the fact that many high schools that serve disadvantaged students and students of color lack highly effective teachers.

Steele works for the Rand Corporation on projects related to pay for performance and teacher effectiveness; at Harvard, she wrote her dissertation on whether a $ 20,000 cash incentive in California would induce academically talented teachers to go to disadvantaged schools.

They also say that counting salaries would make principals favor lower - paid teachers, putting senior teachers at an unfair disadvantage.

David Liben, who works for Student Achievement Partners, a non-profit set up by the authors of the Common Core to help teachers put the standards into practice, says the «text to self» technique often puts kids from poor families at a disadvantage in the classroom.

That said, there is considerable evidence of staffing difficulties in specific subjects (e.g., STEM and special education) and in specific types of schools (e.g., rural schools or schools serving disadvantaged students), which suggests that policies aimed at addressing these true shortage areas must be targeted to these specific teachers and schools.

Second, ill - conceived efforts to move seemingly effective teachers to more disadvantaged schools may prompt them to leave the profession at higher rates.

At the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in July, President Clinton laid out a five - year, $ 350 million program to recruit and prepare a new generation of teachers for America's most disadvantaged schools.

Lower - income school communities in Washington, D.C., are at a clear disadvantage when the largest parent - teacher associations in the area can mobilize millions of private dollars to substantially enhance their schools.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

If for a moment we put aside other controversies and questions as alluded to by Mr. Polikoff and focus of the three components, summative being the last and arguably the most important, if school / districts are opting to implement only the last of the three, won't their students be at a disadvantage when compared to those whose teachers have employed the full range of SBAC assessment and guidance to tweak instruction throughout the year leading up to the summative assessments?

The teachers of these courses could be at a significant disadvantage in their performance ratings.

Leaving other SBAC / Common Core controversies aside, if only certain districts or schools avail themselves on a discretionary basis of the formative and interim resources of SBAC such as student / teacher feedback mechanisms and mini-assessments (see description below from SBAC website), won't students who do not receive those benefits be at a disadvantage to those that do when it comes to the summative assessments, assuming benefit is derived from participation?

A common criticism of value - added measures is that some teachers are at a disadvantage because they are assigned students who are more difficult to educate, even after the measures account for students» prior test scores; this is what researchers call selection bias.

Sen. Bob Hall, R - Edgewood, noted that while a program like the one introduced in Richardson may work for larger, urban school districts, it would put small, rural districts at even more of a disadvantage in staffing classrooms with high quality teachers.

As a result, the tests tend to leave the best teachers — those with wider teaching repertoires who are able to move students beyond the basics — at a disadvantage, while putting pressure on the entire school system to focus on low - level skills.

«Teachers try our very best, but we can not work miracles when students are sent to school at a grave disadvantage because they have not received proper prenatal care, proper nutrition, stimulation, and home literacy experiences, «said New York kindergarten teacher Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski.

Alison Ryan, education policy adviser at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «While many state faith schools are excellent schools, with mixed pupil intakes, some voluntary aided schools, whether intentionally or not, are less diverse ethnically and have fewer disadvantaged pupils because of the faith criteria they use in their admissions policies.

He said the Dance of the Lemons results in the transfer of less effective teachers to economically disadvantaged schools because an «(ineffective) teacher can exist without parent pressure at a lower - end school.»

«The students who brought this lawsuit are, unfortunately, just nine out of millions of young people in America who are disadvantaged by laws, practices and systems that fail to identify and support our best teachers,» he said at the time.

States and districts mostly have opted to look at student growth, as opposed to raw test scores, because raw scores can disadvantage teachers with large numbers of low - income, limited - English or special needs students, who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

What advantages and disadvantages are there to following the guideline that everyone who attends a problem - solving meeting comes prepared to share at least three intervention ideas: one for the teacher, one for home, and one for the student?

But in a letter to Nicky Morgan, Sir Michael, a former academy head teacher, said problems at these multi-academy trusts often replicated those of the worst local councils, and were leading to poor results for too many pupils, particularly disadvantaged ones.

In addition, education policymakers need to look closely at what can be done about the increasing turnover rates among beginning teachers and minority teachers, as well as in disadvantaged schools, which are traditionally among the hardest to staff.

Not only are they at a disadvantage in terms of being able to offer supplemental pay (to attract teachers), they're also at a disadvantage in terms of the types of facilities they're able to afford.»

Teacher Denise Casco at Vista del Valle Dual Language Academy in San Fernando said the inclusion of student achievement could disproportionately affect her because she serves a more disadvantaged community than others in the district.

Only 54 percent of middle school and high school teachers surveyed thought their students «have sufficient access to digital tools at school,» according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, and 84 percent said that «today's digital technologies are leading to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts.»

Specifically addressing problems at Lakewood Middle School, which has 1,207 students grades 6 - 8 who are 87 percent Latino and 9 percent Black (77 percent are economically - disadvantaged and about the same percentage speak Spanish at home), Ms. Morales detailed her child's struggle in a math class that had no teacher for a month.

A 2004 recipient of the Milken Educator Award, one of the nation's most prestigious teaching awards, Carson wants to lead a school in which every teacher will look at the tremendous challenges of educating the most disadvantaged students and «know that they have to, and they can, find a way to overcome them.»

There is much written about the disadvantages created at a young age when students can not read and it is extremely tough for elementary teachers to work on literacy skills if students are not at school.