Sentences with phrase «teachers to student achievement»

The extensive investigation of the contribution of teachers to student achievement produces two generally accepted results.

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Her company crunches achievement data to make assessments of students, looping together the entirety of their work to help teachers make decisions that will boost performance.

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

She is committed to child - centered learning and fostering achievement and growth for both students and teachers.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

Increased student achievement, student and family participation in the educational process, better school attendance, and reduced disciplinary issues are all advantages that can be attributed to the long - term teacher - student relationship developed during the looping years.

Are students more likely to cheat when they feel achievement pressure from parents, teachers and peers?

, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said the federal legislation has the effect of «restoring to states, communities and teachers the responsibility for improving student achievement.»

And the recent results of the achievement levels in small schools suggest that a smaller building environment has more to do with student achievement that teachers themselves.

In his State of the State speech Wednesday, Cuomo proposed a commission to improve teacher evaluation, student achievement and management efficiency.

No one cares more about the achievement of students than the teachers who dedicate their careers to educating our children.

A test designed to assess student academic achievement shouldn't be used to evaluate teachers.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

States and districts across the country have set out to implement new teacher evaluation systems in an effort to improve teacher quality and raise student achievement.

Cash noted through the bargain, the district is «working in close partnership with our teachers and principals to build a solid track to run on to more rapidly grow student proficiency and overall achievement well into the future.»

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

Until now, most New York City teachers have been rewarded based on seniority or quantity of graduate education; neither has been shown to improve student achievement.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Improving student achievement in science and mathematics requires well - prepared teachers who have a solid grounding in the content they teach and an understanding of how diverse students can be helped to learn.

In circumstances where the teachers are all excellent, the variability in student reading achievement may appear to be largely due to genetics.

This important program has helped improve academic achievement and continues to provide our schools and teachers with the resources to prepare our students for the global economy.

«We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the effects of large - scale teacher retirements on student achievement.

It also recommends that the government help to create 1000 new STEM - focused schools across the country and assist in a $ 15,000 - a-year salary boost for a cadre of 22,000 master math and science teachers with exemplary records of boosting student achievement and participation in science.

He touted a Department of Education program, not yet implemented, that offers up to $ 4 billion to states that promise to raise student achievement and improve the quality of their teachers training.

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

The findings can have important implications for policymakers, teachers and school administrators who wish to promote academic achievement for students.

This concept of race matching — where, for instance, Black students prefer or perform better with Black teachers — has been shown to boost student achievement.

Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets, like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

The increase in student achievement from coaching is on par with the gain researchers typically see from students of a veteran teacher with five to 10 years of experience compared to a novice teacher.

and where I found myself in the midst of a grand celebration for all our teachers to honor what they do in teaching students to reach new heights while successfully closing the achievement gap.

Indeed, if the measurements were so volatile that student achievement gains in one year were completely unrelated to a teacher's likely success with future students, they would be right.

Since teachers with fewer than two years of experience tend to be less effective than more experienced teachers, existing mobility patterns in Texas are likely to adversely affect the achievement of disadvantaged students.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

At the same time, the district started looking more carefully at its achievement gap — questioning whether teachers had the tools necessary to ensure that all students had an equal opportunity to achieve, according to Alana Murray, a vice principal who helped launch the program with Yuhaniak.

I met Branch at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving academic achievement.

Education took center stage in Iowa's 2006 legislative session, resulting in measures to boost teacher salaries, start a pilot program that bases teacher pay on student achievement, expand preschool, and establish statewide graduation requirements.

On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers in schools whose poorest students make significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).

«The teachers are [also] going to be learning how to plot student achievement at one time on a Guttman Chart and identify the Zones of Proximal Development, and target teaching at those.»

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

«Part of effective teaching is the use of appropriate assessments to inform teachers of the achievement level of students so that appropriate teaching and intervention strategies can be put in place if a child is not achieving at the expected level.»

And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact on student achievement when high value - added teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.

According to the American Psychological Association, students with a more positive and connected relationship with their teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflict in their relationships.

Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the academic - performance distribution, as is the case in countries with higher student achievement, such as Finland, Korea, and Singapore.

While there are hundreds of technology tools out there to help language arts teachers, these four have helped me enhance my use of formative data and feedback to further student achievement in a diverse and differentiated classroom.

Much like the 10,000 hours theory advanced by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers — that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field — the idea of grit is a simple concept to understand for parents and teachers worried about raising achievement levels among students.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.