Sentences with phrase «teachers reported spending»

It is based on the time allocation — teachers reported spending the same amount of time teaching as they did on all of the planning and marking.

Our analysis of 2014 teacher survey data,... showed that 50 percent of eighth grade teachers reported spending 3 to 5 hours per week of classroom instruction time on social studies....

In 1998, kindergarten teachers reported spending just over an hour a day on reading and language arts.

On the negative side, teachers reported spending considerable time in test preparation activities and a tendency to de-emphasize untested material.

Both California and Michigan teachers reported spending roughly the same amount of time per week on reading instruction.

Most middle school science teachers reported spending a short time focusing on climate change — one to two hours on average.

Now, the teacher reports spending that time answering questions that seem to exist merely to justify an outside consultant's fee.

Many teachers report spending hours every week searching online for lessons and materials to use in their classroom, and some spend even more time developing and adapting materials to align to their state's standards.

American middle and high school teachers report spending more time at the front of the classroom than teachers in nearly every other country in the developed world.9 While U.S. teachers deliver instruction for about 80 percent of their workday, the international average is around 60 percent — and teachers in high - performing nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore spend only about one - third of their time providing instruction directly to students.10 We know that it does not have to be this way for U.S. teachers.

Not exact matches

The law, which President Donald Trump signed on Saturday as part of the omnibus spending bill, provides funding to train students, teachers, and law enforcement on how to spot and report signs of gun violence.

I spent almost five years reporting in Harlem, attending parenting classes and sixth - grade math lessons and basketball games and parent - teacher meetings, and the time I spent there turned out to be a period of great change, not only for Geoff and the scope of his project but also for plenty of individuals whose stories I've tried to tell in the book.

The group Teachers For Todd reported spending $ 27,794 on mail in the 9th Senate district ahead of Tuesday's vote.

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

Among his responses: condemning Bill de Blasio for «hypocrisy» in criticizing the court ruling allowing expanded independent expenditure funding but benefiting from such spending, including a reported $ 1 million ad buy by the United Federation of Teachers.

The United Teachers Federation spent nearly $ 1.4 million, the report found.

Commenting on Ofsted's survey report Pupil Premium: How schools are spending the funding successfully to maximise achievement, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» unioTeachers, the largest teachers» unioteachers» union, said:

Teachers have also said they now spend too many classroom hours giving tests to their students, and report the exams have led to outbreaks of anxiety.

This week alone, the New York State United Teachers union spent $ 85,000 on mailers in key Assembly primaries, but advocates who released Tuesday's report say there is a key difference.

In 2011, for example, the highest spender was the United Federation of Teachers, which reported spending $ 256,970, only 8.95 percent of what their current opponents spent this fall.

Families for Excellent Schools reported spending $ 9.7 million, comfortably surpassing the New York State United Teachers» $ 3.2 million.

Although the Buffalo Teachers Federation spent close to $ 8,000 on mailers, lawn signs and advertising for its six choice candidates, only two of them reported receiving anything.

Those missing reports could account for money spent by the Buffalo Teachers Federation, but not reported by candidates.

Furthermore, middle and high school students spend their school day with multiple teachers and adults, making it difficult to find a single adult who can easily track their behavior and report it accurately.

A new, in - depth report takes a look at how states spend education money and finds that the most cost - effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing pupil - teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing teachers with discretionary classroom resources — not by raising teacher pay.

Oxford Home Schooling, part of the Oxford Open Learning Trust, used data from Europe - wide reporting to investigate how the UK compares against three key areas of education: pupils per teacher, years spent in school and level of national investment in schools.

Reports published by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut have shown that most general education classroom teachers are poorly equipped to meet the needs of the gifted, and that gifted students can spend as much as half the school repeating curriculum and waiting for classmates to catch up.

Try this thought experiment with another observed practice to illustrate my point about how the results are being mis - reported... The correlation between student observations that «My teacher seems to know if something is bothering me» and value added was.153, which was less than the.195 correlation for «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for [the state test].»

Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.

Those reported hours included time teachers spent working at night or on weekends.

But a new report based largely on interviews with 30 local union presidents who each have spent less than eight years in office paints an evolved picture of leaders who are often involved in collaborative relationships with their school superintendents; who have to work constantly to balance the needs of a new generation of teachers with the needs of older members; and who see the importance...

However, one major recommendation, calling for the federal government to spend about $ 800 million a year to support salary increases for teachers who meet specified higher standards, was dropped from the final report.

Prior to the report, school inputs — spending per pupil, teacher pupil ratios, and the like — were customarily viewed as roughly synonymous with results.

The amount spent on supply teachers accounted for six per cent of total spend on staff wages, and the BBC report suggests it is due to schools in England struggling to recruit enough teachers.

Despite spending # 700 million a year on recruiting and training new teachers, the government is missing crucial targets, with the report calling for it to «demonstrate how new arrangements are improving the quality of teaching on classrooms».

Nearly half of teachers in the RAND study reported spending more than four hours per week developing or selecting their own instructional materials.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

The report says that K12 schools spend more on instructional costs but less on teacher salaries and benefits, and more on administration but less on administrator salaries and benefits.

On average, CPS principals reported that they spend about six hours per teacher during each formal observation cycle.

The report highlighted that «students are spending too much time preparing for and taking tests,» teachers were «teaching to the test,» and the narrow focus on ELA and math has «diminished the joy in learning, inhibited creativity, and taken time away from other subjects.»

They are given transcripts of their lesson, which are coded against a rubric to produce a dashboard view of how they performed in certain key areas — such as time spent on teacher talk, the types of questioning used, and incidences of positive behaviour management — and a detailed feedback report.

In a recent unpublished analysis, administrators -LSB-...] report spending an average of more than three hours writing a summative evaluation for each teacher in the building.

«Having spent 30 years reporting on what everyone was doing in the teacher - preparation and - certification space, I just concluded that nobody was really focusing on tomorrow's learning world,» Ms. Feistritzer said.

As part of an international study collating results from surveys covering 3,328 primary and secondary teachers in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the US and Australia, the report shows that the 11 hours is considerably more than those in the US (nine per cent) and Australia (seven per cent) where the time spent on teaching is typically higher.

The report by Ipsos Mori and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) focuses on how schools are spending the PDG and teachers» perceptions of the impact of the grant.

That assistance is available at a time when, according to information from PLATO Learning, only 1/3 of teachers report that they feel prepared to use computers for classroom instruction, and 77 percent report spending 32 or fewer hours on technology - related professional development activities.

The teacher workload survey found out that every teacher normally spends working 11 hours per day that is 54.4 hours a week, with senior leaders reporting 12.4 hours making up 62 - hour weeks.

Teachers reported that they spent twice as much time on problem - solving activities as on direct instruction.

Johnson also writes that eight out of ten teachers report their teaching would be more effective if they did not have to spend so much time handling disruptive behavior.

The districts in The Mirage spend an average of nearly $ 18,000 per teacher, per year, or six to nine percent of the districts» annual operating budget, on development efforts (the charter management organization in the report spends an average of $ 33,000 per teacher or 15 percent of its annual budget).