Sentences with phrase «teachers by controlling»

In this brief, we discuss what is and is not known about how well value - added measures level the playing field for teachers by controlling for student characteristics.

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

CMHC controls about two - thirds of the market while publicly traded Genworth Canada has around 30 %; Canada Guaranty (part - owned by the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan) mops up the remainder.

With the great success enjoyed by SQC in Japan, and through his own abilities as a teacher and promoter of quality control and related management approaches, Deming became the iconic figure in the field, the «father of quality control.»

But federal lawmakers have taken limited action, and President Trump quickly abandoned a promise to pursue gun control measures, instead promoting proposals backed by the National Rifle Association to arm teachers.

Jews were protected by Muslims who controlled most of Spain, and parts of Sicily, serving as Doctors, teachers, scholars, etc..

I think that «inerrancy» is often a term thrown around by leaders and teachers who want to cajole and control people.

Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

These criteria were employed in choosing the well adjusted children: Plays well with other children, appears to be a happy child, has reasonable control over his emotions, can be depended on, is achieving somewhere near his capacity, is able to think for himself, is kind and helpful to teachers and classmates, is liked and respected by his peers.)

atheis is not healthy for a country... beyond the physical control by parent, teachers, coach, police, boss, military... etc etc...

And because under the Perry program teachers systematically reported on a range of students» behavioral and social skills, Heckman was able to learn that students» success later in life was predicted not by their IQs but by the noncognitive skills like curiosity and self - control that the Perry program had imparted.

In the words of the Seneca elder Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, «In Native culture, children are regarded as teachers because they have not yet had any experience of having their truth and their trust chipped away by people who want to control them.»

Stimulated by more positive reinforcement, kids who have been out of control can learn to rein in their behavior and enjoy more rewarding relationships with parents and teachers.

Teachers understand this, but when students run into trouble in school, Tough writes, schools often respond by imposing more control, not less, via stern discipline such as out - of school suspensions, «further diminishing their fragile sense of autonomy.»

We believe that our academy and free school reforms will empower schools and teachers by freeing them from local authority control and government interference to do what they do best - educate.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher RTeacher Reserve.

The bill, backed by the teachers union, is expected to pass the Democratic - controlled Assembly today, the last day of state lawmakers» regular 2012 session.

NY State United Teachers President Andrew Pallota thinks that it would be controlled by wealthy special interests that could undo protections for workers:

Now, [she] is trying to take away local control from our school communities by advocating to arm teachers.»

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

The independent expenditure committee backed by the New York State United Teachers union is increasing its efforts in the 60th Senate district, bolstering Democrat Amber Small in what is considering a linchpin for Republicans keeping control of the chamber.

In spite of promises made by government that autonomy is being handed back to teachers and schools, there is still an appetite among ministers to control everything rigidly from the «centre.»»

Standing alongside United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten — who, in an effort to ease the passage of mayoral control, has dropped her objections to the version passed by the State Assembly — Hizzoner issued the kind of threat that senators might actually listen to.

Free schools are tax payer funded, free from local authority control and are run by teachers, parents and community groups.

Key legislative Democrats, with strong teachers - union backing, have sought to give the Regents, who are controlled by the Legislature's Democratic majority, sole control over charter schools.

Commenting on the announcement by exams regulator Ofqual that it is requiring each exam board to take actions to improve the control of exam papers, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

That followed a Newsday report that said the portion of teacher evaluations controlled by districts is weighted in most Long Island districts toward ensuring teachers score high enough to get favorable evaluations.

The mayor lumped the United Federation of Teachers — the teachers» union in New York City — with the National Rifle Association as he listed groups controlled by a vocal mTeachers — the teachers» union in New York City — with the National Rifle Association as he listed groups controlled by a vocal mteachers» union in New York City — with the National Rifle Association as he listed groups controlled by a vocal minority.

A committee controlled by the New York State United Teachers which has helped Democrats brought in $ 109,650.

By making teacher seniority an issue the mayor would be able to control which teachers get to teach and rid himself of senior teachers who are due raltively high salaries and expensive benefits.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

Heastie, backed by de Blasio and the teachers unions, sought to tie the renewal of the 15 - year - old program to the extension of local taxation authority for upstate municipalities largely controlled by Republicans — a play infuriating to Flanagan.

A forty - something preschool teacher looks to the Every new pet dog must have a # 35 microchip: Plan to control dangerous animals by putting all eight million pets on massive database.

Her name is Parvana (voiced with strength and conviction by newcomer Saara Chaudry), and she is allowed to visit Kabul's market square only so long as she is accompanied by her father (Ali Badshah), a one - legged local teacher whose reverence for books upsets the militant young men — including one especially spiteful former student, hardly more than a child himself — who've since seized control of the region.

Tech - savvy teachers are able to prepare their lessons in a more strategical manner by including different types of text, activity models, and interactive controls for students.

By setting high, clear learning goals and giving teachers and local officials full control over how best to achieve those, the Common Core ensures educators have autonomy over what is taught, and how it's taught, in their classrooms.

Preliminary findings of a PHD, co-funded by Education Support Partnership and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) suggest that giving teachers sufficient control and autonomy is a significant factor in reducing job strain, but that the effect is relatively small unless combined with leader and management support.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

As a teacher, I found that by using the Redl and Wineman format I was able to anticipate what type of situations would trigger self - control problems.

This technology is not new to education, but historically tends to be used more by network managers to monitor and control their school's IT from the back - office, rather than being used by classroom teachers themselves.

Only recently, teachers unions seemed to be riding high in the saddle, enjoying for the first time in more than a decade a government unified under the union - friendly leadership of a Democratic governor and a legislature controlled by the same party.

And it seems that when students no longer view scores as a label bestowed upon them by a teacher, but instead see them as something they own and have control over, the urge to fudge the data dissipates.

«By way of example, the teacher survey undertaken by Murdoch University in 2012 invited participants to respond to statements such as: «NAPLAN promotes a socially supportive and positive classroom environment» and «NAPLAN has meant that students have control over the pace, directions and outcomes of lessons in my class»By way of example, the teacher survey undertaken by Murdoch University in 2012 invited participants to respond to statements such as: «NAPLAN promotes a socially supportive and positive classroom environment» and «NAPLAN has meant that students have control over the pace, directions and outcomes of lessons in my class»by Murdoch University in 2012 invited participants to respond to statements such as: «NAPLAN promotes a socially supportive and positive classroom environment» and «NAPLAN has meant that students have control over the pace, directions and outcomes of lessons in my class».

But what if the camera was actually controlled not by Big Brother (or Big Principal) but by the teacher, and what if it was turned on only when she wanted to record a lesson to submit for her performance review?

It's a common misconception that personalized learning is controlled solely by teachers or a digital platform.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

Teachers often come to the classroom with an unclear understanding of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and they are rarely provided with strategies that detail how to work with students who have been diagnosed with ADHD, even though such students make up an increasingly large number of their students — 11 percent and growing as of 2011, according to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Fresh off a victory on the finance issue and newly enjoying complete control of the legislature, Republican leaders were primed to push changes sought by administrators» groups as a way of controlling costs and limiting teacher strikes.

Moreover, as Terry Moe and others have detailed, political control often means control by well - organized special interests like teachers unions.