Sentences with phrase «teachers serving similar»

In that case, it is essential to compare teachers serving similar children to draw any valid causal conclusions.

Not exact matches

Yeshivat Har Etzion founded an affiliated teacher's college and women's program, each of which served as a model for similar initiatives in other Hesder yeshivot.

In a similar vein, some have argued that minority teachers can serve as positive role models and mentors for minority students, capable of building a cultural bridge between home and school.

There is nothing now available to parents called childcare or daycare that is even grossly similar to Abecedarian in the program that is delivered, the characteristics and social circumstances of the children and families that are served, the teachers and staff who are employed, the age at which children are initially enrolled (6 weeks), the continuity of enrollment from infancy to 5 years, the delivery of on - site primary health care, program leadership and management, or costs.

The third approach we consider is also based on value - added but is carried out in two steps instead of one in order to force comparisons between schools and teachers serving students with similar characteristics.

The news followed similar research by the Institute of Education which identified that the most highly qualified teachers were more attracted to schools serving the wealthiest and highest - attaining pupils.

A similar pattern is ob - served for increments in teacher salaries.

Since principal leadership is so important, systems should require school leaders to have teaching experience with students similar to those who attend the school, as well as having served as a teachers union official.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

Additionally, the development and use of computer laboratory facilities similar to the Verizon Interactive Classroom at Texas A&M serve not only as an instructional tool for science and mathematics content courses, but also provide a means for demonstrating appropriate pedagogical methods and building technological literacy in preservice teachers.

And while the teachers union has been careful not to claim the scalps of Fenty and his schools chancellor, Michelle Rhee, the election may serve as a political shot across the bows of other urban officials considering similar policies.

If students are familiar with socratic seminars, these could serve a similar purpose to the fishbowl discussion or could be used periodically during Literature Circles as a way to re-establish class norms and debrief difficult texts and issues as a class and with increased teacher presence.

By setting forth a code of professional responsibility for school administrators separate from the code applicable to teachers, there is a recognition of the similar but different responsibilities that the two groups have to the students they serve.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

These sensitivity checks, and the possible stratification of teachers into sub-groups serving similar students, complicate value - added analysis and may not be congruent with policymakers» wish to compare all teachers in a district.

Demonstration project teachers served as facilitators for 40 district - level teams from around the state, who attended a conference designed to initiate professional development efforts similar to those developed by MELAF.

It's similar to a medical residency, where residents serve under an assisting physician and gain the training required to practice medicine, but teacher residents work under the supervision of a veteran teacher while training to become teachers of record in SFUSD.

Notably, the Supreme Court of Canada examined a similar controversy when the BC College of Teachers refused to allow TWU to assume full responsibility for its teacher education program, on the basis that the public interest was not served by its approving a teacher education program offered by a private institution that appeared to follow discriminatory practices.

Validation for preschool MDD (based on meeting all DSM - IV symptom criteria) has been supported by the finding of a specific symptom constellation that was distinct from other psychiatric disorders and stable during a 6 - month period.22 Additionally, alterations in the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis reactivity similar to those known in adults with depression, greater family history of mood disorders, as well as observational evidence of depressive affects and behaviors were detected in preschoolers with depression, providing further validation.22,25,27 - 30 More recent findings from a larger independent sample (N = 306) ascertained from community sites (and serving as the population for this investigation) have replicated the findings described above and have also demonstrated that preschoolers with depression display significant functional impairment evident in multiple contexts rated by both parents and teachers.24