Sentences with phrase «than a replacement teacher»

Because veteran teachers tend to perform better than a replacement teacher just entering the profession, that has real, negative consequences for students.

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This summer, hundreds of CCSD teachers are taking advantage of training opportunities offered by CCSD; school nutrition workers have been busy learning new skills and ideas for tastier lunchroom fare; more than 400 school buses will be inspected; warehouse and technology employees are stocking a brand new replacement Dean Rusk Middle School; and, maintenance department employees are busy burning through a list of repair and upgrade projects on various school campuses.

A growing body of evidence finds that teacher turnover reduces student achievement, either directly because replacement teachers are less effective than exiting teachers or indirectly through the disruptions caused by high turnover rates.

In fact, because traditional pension plans push out veteran teachers, and because those veterans tend to be better than their replacements, pension plans are actively harming overall teacher quality.

Replacement costs for teachers have been found to be about $ 18,000 per teacher who leaves, which adds up to a national price tag of more than $ 7 billion a year.

Replacing a teacher judged to be ineffective with a replacement of unknown quality will likely have a smaller positive impact than retaining a teacher who has already demonstrated effectiveness in the classroom.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

A growing body of evidence finds that teacher turnover reduces student achievement, either directly because replacement teachers are less effective than exiting teachers or indirectly through the disruptions caused by high turnover rates.

«Likely replacement teachers are much more likely to be rated Effective or Highly Effective than the extended teachers who leave.»

A highly effective principal might improve the school's value - added so that it is more effective than it was in the past, but it is likely to take several years before the combination of staff development, improvements in school environment, and replacement of ineffective teachers can make the school a high - value - added school.1

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 7 with 32 lessons TOPICS Ratios and Proportional Relationships Proportional relationships Constant of proportionality Equations of proportional relationships The Number System Add and subtract integers Multiply and divide integers Expressions and Equations Mixed numbers, decimals, and percents greater than 100 % Covering fractions, decimals, and percentages Fraction, decimal, and percentage combinations that equal one Solving linear equations Two - step linear equations Geometry Scale factor Construct triangles Circumference of a circle and pi Area of a circle Area of irregular figures Polygons: exploring area Statistics and Probability Population sampling Modeling probability: building spinners Theoretical and experimental probability with spinners and dice Modeling probability: relationships between events Probability and fairness Finding probability without replacement Compound events: making an organized list and tree diagram

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 7 with 32 lessons TOPICS Ratios and Proportional Relationships Proportional relationships Constant of proportionality Equations of proportional relationships The Number System Add and subtract integers Multiply and divide integers Expressions and Equations Mixed numbers, decimals, and percents greater than 100 % Covering fractions, decimals, and percentages Fraction, decimal, and percentage combinations that equal one Solving linear equations Two - step linear equations Geometry Scale factor Construct triangles Circumference of a circle and pi Area of a circle Area of irregular figures Polygons: exploring area Statistics and Probability Population sampling Modeling probability: building spinners Theoretical and experimental probability with spinners and dice Modeling probability: relationships between events Probability and fairness Finding probability without replacement Compound events: making an organized list and tree diagram Resources Polygons: Exploring Area Sample Lesson

«Short - term, replacement strategies,» the report says, «treat teachers like interchangeable, expendable parts rather than as young professionals meriting sustained investments in their development as part of a community of expert, experienced, teachers.»

The school said a long - term supply teacher had left earlier than expected and a replacement could not be found.

Roth suggests that increased retirements could have freed up resources that schools could then use in other ways, as retiring teachers were paid more than their younger replacements.