Sentences with phrase «teachers surveyed thought»

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.»

Twenty - one per cent of the 381 teachers surveyed thought additional autonomy had a positive impact in their classroom.

More than a third (34 %) of teachers surveyed thought there were young carers at their school who were not sufficiently supported and almost a third (29 %) said they didn't think their school had any particular ways of supporting young carers.

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(The survey didn't ask what people thought of «law teachers» like me.

Meanwhile, almost all parents surveyed (96 percent) would want their child's pediatrician to tell them if he or she thought their child should be evaluated for a psychiatric or learning disorder (83 percent said they'd want to hear the same from their child's teacher).

Faced with parents» concerns, petitions and a teachers survey, Think Tank officials have more thinking to do.

Nearly three quarters (73 %) of teachers who responded to the NASUWT's annual Big Question survey think there is a widespread behaviour problem in schools today, a 5 % increase on the 2014 survey, and 42 % believe there is a behaviour problem in their schools, a 5 % increase on the 2014 survey.

The survey found that teachers thought other causes of indiscipline were a lack of backup from senior management, the influence of negative TV and media, large class sizes and a lack of enforcement of school rules.

What do you think of the recent survey published in Science that showed that only 28 percent of biology teachers taught evolution effectively, 13 percent explicitly advocated for creationism, and the rest endorsed neither?

According to a recent survey done by Saeclus, a user on the website ROBLOX, most people are sucking him off and starting You need to be you in your online dating profile, but the process of creating one is a good time to think about what kindergarten teachers call «being

In a recent survey, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) found that 73 per cent of trainee and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) had thought about leaving the profession, citing increased woTeachers and Lecturers (ATL) found that 73 per cent of trainee and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) had thought about leaving the profession, citing increased woteachers (NQTs) had thought about leaving the profession, citing increased workloads.

For middle and high school teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to parents.

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TES conducted a survey of 751 UK school teachers between 9th and 13th June 2016, in partnership with YouGov, to ask their thoughts on the upcoming EU referendum vote.

Principals, curriculum leaders and teachers, please let us know what you're doing and thinking about assessment by filling in our online survey.»

The survey of a nationally representative sample of adult Americans — and a separate nationally representative sample of teachers — asked respondents whether they thought President Obama's RttT was «necessary to improve school quality» or whether they thought it an «unwarranted intrusion into state and local government.»

«The union did a survey in April, and teachers didn't think the evaluation system was as objective as it needed to be.

The survey also reports on what the public thinks about Common Core, charter schools, teachers unions, and more.

National survey finds declining support for increased school spending and teacher salaries; thinks schools do not do as well at attending to the needs of the less - talented as those of the more - talented.

A recent survey of ordinary classroom teachers found that they also think the examinations have become easier.

«I don't think there's anything close to it,» says Albert Beaton, who helped analyze the report and its surveys of 570,000 students and 60,000 teachers as a researcher for the Educational Testing Service.

According to a national survey of 1,000 teachers, 2,224 11 to 19 - year - olds and 2,675 workers, conducted by the Prince's Trust and HSBC, 31 per cent of teachers think it's more important to develop soft skills than get good grades.

«I actually wanted insight into the school's racial achievement gap,» he says, «and thought a survey on how the students perceived the school — academics, teachers, extracurriculars, safety, and social morale — would reveal differences between racial groups.»

13 % of people surveyed thought reducing head teachers» workloads could offer a solution — freeing them up to invest in school development, rather than spending time on day - to - day administrative duties.

Sixty - five percent of teachers think games could help them better engage students, but just one in ten percent use any sort of educational computer game in class, according to a recent survey.

In 8 of the past 10 years, we have also surveyed teachers on the subject and have seen some interesting differences between the thinking of these educators and the public at large.

Eteach surveyed over 1,800 teachers and the data reveals two - thirds are thinking of leaving their current job in the next three years.

Traditional professional development for educators isn't exactly winning rave reviews; in 2006, for example, the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher found that only half of teachers thought that «providing more opportunities for professional development would help a lot in keeping good people in teaching.»

We all know that recruitment and retention in teaching is an issue, but even we were surprised when we conducted a survey of over 1,000 UK teachers in June last year, which revealed that 61 per cent of teachers were thinking of leaving teaching.

Survey respondents were asked to state the percentage of teachers in their local school district they think deserve one of the five grades on the traditional A-to-F scale.

A 2003 Public Agenda survey found that barely one in five teachers thought linking teachers» salaries to their effectiveness would help motivate teachers or reward high - performers, while more than 60 percent worried that it would lead to jealousy.

Reporting the findings of an annual survey of Australian parents, grandparents and guardians, Monash University academics Associate Professor Shane Phillipson and Associate Professor Sivanes Phillipson say 84 per cent think their child's teacher is highly educated but a smaller number don't agree.

Teachers talked about the event in classes, and students also answered a survey about how they thought members of different groups interacted, and if they thought any groups of students were isolated.

The research involved surveying 1,100 school leaders, the results of which suggested that 82 per cent of mainstream schools in England do not have sufficient funding to adequately provide for pupils with SEND; 89 per cent of school leaders believe cuts to local authority services have had a detrimental impact on the support their school receives for pupils with SEND; three - quarters of schools have pupils who have been waiting longer than expected for assessment of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan; and 88 per cent of school leaders think initial teacher training does not adequately prepare teachers to support pupils with SEND.

The Year 11 and 12s surveyed all students at the school about what they thought made a good teacher.

A survey of 101 secondary schools asked language teachers how important they thought the Department for Education currently sees MFL in schools on a scale of 0 - 10 — with the average response being just 5/10.

Regular feedback in the form of surveys is needed to understand how those charged with implementing standards - based educational reform — teachers, superintendents, parents, and policy makers — think about the uses of tests and the high - impact decisions that follow from them.

Over the span of three years, dozens of education experts and researchers, 3,000 teacher volunteers in six urban districts, 20,000 videotaped lessons, student surveys, and student performance on state and supplemental higher - order thinking skills tests, have given us a much better understanding of what great teaching looks like.

The classroom of the next decade will be a high - technology learning center where teachers emphasize «comprehension, critical thinking, communication, and coping,» educators surveyed for a new study predict.

And even higher percentages of people surveyed — 77 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Independents and Democrats — think higher raises should go to teachers who improve student achievement, according to recent polling results from the Teaching Commission.

Researchers are concerned that the tool is being used at all for accountability purposes, while principals worry that survey results are being included in how schools are doing even thought teachers are not mandated to take the survey.

«We think that that school leaders, community groups, and our fellow teachers will all have ideas for how to increase teacher engagement based the findings from this survey — in this new school year.

The survey of 400 teachers found that 57 percent thought they spent «too much time» on test prep, while 43 percent said test prep time was «about right» or «too little.»

In a new survey of 1,000 California teachers, a plurality of instructors thinks that it's most important to develop critical thinking skills as preparation for college and career.

Over time, I think we'll see more sophisticated measures of teacher performance developed that include surveys from parents and students, action research projects where teachers document the impact of their own performance and some form of peer review.

The report analyzes five surveys that asked teachers across the nation what they think about using technology in the classroom.

We started surveying students about the effectiveness of their teachers and sharing that information anonymously with teachers, so they could see the gap between what they thought they were conveying to their students, and how the students perceived it.

After two years, nearly all teachers who answered the survey we administered (94 percent) reported that they had changed their thinking about teaching mathematics to students with disabilities.

A new survey from the International Literacy Association finds that what many teachers note as being «hot» in national conversations about literacy isn't what they think is most important.

Whereas the NFER survey is about asking teachers questions about their practice and their views, I think it would have been invaluable to explore practice deeper by observing phonics teaching in action.