Sentences with phrase «test teachers»

The data reported suggest that teacher authors may have modeled the learning strategy for students before small group work more often than the field - testing teachers did in practice.

That doesn't count the quizzes or small tests teachers give on their own.

There are now several new gate - keeping measures to test teacher quality introduced by universities in the last two to three years.

Field - testing teachers also reported on the ways students were grouped for implementing the field - test of the lesson (see Table 6).

In the qualitative comments, field - testing teachers described primarily using a small group strategy (43 %) or using a whole group and small group strategy (6 %).

Criterion - referenced tests are the most common type of test teachers use in daily classroom work.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: South Dakota continues to score poorly in this category, partly because it is one of only six states that do not test teachers at all before they earn their licenses.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Utah is one of six states that do not test teachers at all before they are certified, but it is piloting subject - matter tests for prospective teachers.

[1] According to the survey, «For school districts, which receive the majority of these funds, allowable uses include: recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers; offering professional development in core academic areas; promoting growth and rewarding quality teaching through mentoring, induction, and other support services; testing teachers in academic areas; and reducing class size.»

A federal appeals court has struck down two Louisiana districts» policies on testing teachers and other school workers for drugs following workplace accidents.

See Acts 17:11 about testing every teacher against the scriptures.

«I don't mind testing teachers to see if they're qualified,» aspiring teacher Michael Kane told Education World, «but I'd prefer it be a national not a state test.

We all know the student, the one whose stress response goes from zero to 100 at seemingly small triggers; whose defiant moments test the teacher's hourly resolve; and whose initial resistance towards a classroom task can lead to the tanking of an entire school day.

Back at home, tell your kid you want to test the teacher estimate (s), so you want your kid to complete all homework each night for one week without any discussion (other than homework help, of course), any «breaks,» or any delays.

But District Court Judge Don P. Chairez also ruled that the state has a right to test teachers who want a license and that the Pre-Professional Skills Test is valid.

(If you want to learn more about the debate surrounding test scores and teacher evaluation, check out ARW's 2010 documentary Testing Teachers).

But because Coleman did not think about selection, he thought that he had rigorously tested teachers» effects.

Successes reported by field - test teachers consistently identified the high quality of student discussion mentioning use of knowledge and vocabulary, listening to and challenging other students, and considering different points of view.

Results of «formative and summative» assessments, meaning the low - stakes standardized tests teachers give to students to track their progress.

A separate RAND study, the nation's first randomized experiment to test teacher incentive pay, also found that students of the teachers who were eligible to earn bonuses did not outperform the students whose teachers were not eligible for bonuses.

The New York State Education department had implicitly suggested that assessment would be testing the teachers as well; «scores across the state would drop, and they would not necessarily be indicative of deficiencies in student learning.

The ATP staff constructed and pilot tested the Teacher Disposition Survey, containing 24 items that solicited self - reported perceptions about the degree to which preservice teachers valued and used student preconceptions in their teaching.

If they are able to test teachers for grit, they need to monetize that and franchise the process, because this is a mine of inexhaustible riches.

«They'll be better, smarter assessments — the kind of tests our teachers want and our students need.»

I realize that it's important to test a teacher in his or her own area of expertise, but expecting a teacher of students with special needs, for example, to cover the entire exceptional needs area, from birth to age 21 seems unrealistic.

When black teachers can not exhibit skills at the same level as whites, let us attack the very idea of testing teachers» skills.

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

Some make mistakes, some test teachers and the rules.

Competency tests for teachers have gained wide — although not universal — acceptance among educators, and now a survey in Florida suggests that at least in that state, the public also supports the idea of testing teachers.

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Primary school children were left in tears after taking «one of the hardest» tests teachers have ever seen.

Testing teachers and students using psychological tools proved indispensable in an organizational culture that no longer lent itself to face - to - face contact and interactions.

The field - testing teacher may have moved straight to small group work with the primary sources, eliminating the modeling that uses a whole group strategy and projects a digital primary source.

This shows incongruence between the design of the lesson by the lesson author and its actual implementation by the field - testing teachers.

The field - testing teachers» comments regarding changes that they would make if they implemented the lesson suggested modeling the learning strategy.

This raises the question of whether field - testing teachers did not read or understand the lesson instructions, whether the student grouping instructions were unclear in the lesson directions, or whether the field - testing teachers simply wanted to implement the lesson their own way or in a way that best addressed their students» needs.

The data on grouping strategies suggest that some of the whole group modeling used by the lesson authors may not have been implemented by field - testing teachers.

The majority of field - testing teachers in this study used PowerPoint to present the digital primary sources.

Gathering data and testing teachers» knowledge allows researchers to develop scientifically - grounded advice for teacher education institutions.

I seriously think that test is no point some of the stuff on that test my teachers never taught it to me.

Applicants will also be expected to participate in a range of online activities, with each element designed not just to test a teacher's knowledge and skills, but also to provide them with development opportunities and equip them with behaviours and approaches to evaluation and personal development, to ensure they continue to develop their practice.

Mulgrew thinks the right fix is to change the tests teachers are evaluated on to some kind of authentic assessment or student portfolios.

ROMANS: But do you — do you agree that testing teachers, standardized testing is a way to find good students, and those students are doing better because of their teacher.