Sentences with phrase «teachers focus their efforts»

We see caring and capable teachers focusing their efforts on the students who are trying to succeed, apparently unable to keep Tracy from following her self - destructive path.

These tests may help teachers focus their efforts, and they may help districts identify ineffective teachers and effective teachers.

Not exact matches

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

Padalino said the district will continue focusing its efforts internally on the academic success of its students, even as its administrators, teachers and parents continue their efforts to have their voices heard by the Cuomo administration.

FUND early intervention and prevention efforts in our elementary schools focused on educating parents, training teachers and working with students so that kids don't turn to drugs and alcohol when they are facing challenges.

Teacher and petitioner Emily James, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the efforts to get the city to provide paid family leave for city public school tTeachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the efforts to get the city to provide paid family leave for city public school teachersteachers.

The UFT is focusing its efforts on winning the restoration of Teacher's Choice funding as final negotiations on next year's city budget get underway.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

Once priority standards have been selected, using their judgment allows teachers to focus their efforts on designing projects to target them.

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

Additionally, Spaulding sought to make the School's research faculty more visible, fostered cooperative efforts within Harvard University, and shifted some of the School's focus from teacher preparation to administrative training.

Were teachers, we wanted to know, focusing their attention on either high - achieving or low - achieving students in an effort to meet target scores?

Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.

Donna C. Peterman: Working with teachers is at the heart of our mission and remains the focus of our efforts.

This leads directly to what teachers can do to help students become more master - oriented: Teachers should focus on students» efforts and not on their abteachers can do to help students become more master - oriented: Teachers should focus on students» efforts and not on their abTeachers should focus on students» efforts and not on their abilities.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

Such programs seem to encourage teachers to focus their work efforts on the areas of student performance that are being measured — primarily the core academic areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and reading.

Do these statistics provide any insight that teachers can use to focus their efforts?

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

In exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performance.

Schools should focus teacher evaluation and feedback efforts on the specific instructional changes required for the gap standards.

This runs counter to the idea that teachers should focus their instructional efforts on the (already comprehensive) topics and skills in the grade - level standards.

Another report of the mid-1980s, the Carnegie Corporation's A Nation Prepared (see Chester E. Finn Jr., «High Hurdles,» p. 62), sparked a long focus on excellence in teaching in an effort to define what Tom Kean, former governor of New Jersey, termed «what accomplished teachers need to know and be able to do.»

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

Our results confirm that students in tracked classes seem to have benefited from more - focused teaching and perhaps also from greater teacher effort.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

Teachers can also help students grapple with global concerns by focusing on what's happening at the local level, Bohmann says, and by highlighting positive efforts already under way.

Lawmakers believed high - quality teachers unburdened by student - loan debt could now fully focus their efforts on educating the next generation of scientists and engineers to defeat the Soviet menace.

Teachers should use additional resources to address targeted support for pupils by focusing their time and efforts in better understanding the outcomes of that support; what progress has been made towards agreed outcomes, and how has the additional support enabled the pupil to achieve this as independently as possible?

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

One of IEL's social media - based professional learning and networking initiatives, #PTChat (Parent - Teacher Chat) and a related summer learning experiment, #PTCamp, offer a unique window into the world of social - media and technology focused parent / family engagement efforts.

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

Although teachers had been working together to share best practices, says Superintendent Ed Rafferty, efforts had not been student - focused enough.

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In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

More recently, Education Week described how the state of Missouri and the teachers college at Arizona State University plan to continue their efforts to focus on outcomes.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

More than 80 percent of teachers and 87 percent of principals surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that the promotion standards had «focused the school's instructional efforts in positive ways.»

While many schools do make efforts for teachers to get together, Bocala says that it often isn't focused enough because there are too many competing initiatives to actually be impactful.

Most education reform efforts focus on what teachers are doing — professional development, new curricula, bonuses and incentives to raise scores, and so on.

Personnel policies that treat different teachers differently should be a focus of efforts to increase access to high - quality instruction for all students.

That's why it's a major focus of our education efforts, and why we're looking forward to working with companies like BYJU's to get these tools into the hands of more students and teachers around the world,» he added.

«These efforts, as well as many others, were focused on teachers and classrooms, rather than measures of accountability.»

When asked about advice to other schools, a teacher at Hilltop offered, «You need to focus staff development efforts on becoming better teachers of reading.»

Such strategies include teacher and principal residency programs; differentiated pay plans; human capital data reports; and targeted recruitment efforts using sophisticated web - based systems and focusing on the challenge of recruiting and retaining diverse teachers.

At Playa Junior High School, for example, the principal sought school improvement through an effort to get teachers to be less didactic in their teaching, to broaden their repertoires of instructional strategies, and to focus on higher - order learning expectations.

Regardless of the practices used or the focus of teacher leaders» work with teachers, these efforts are intended to impact the extent and quality of teachers» use of instructional materials in implementing the intended math or science curricula.