Sentences with phrase «than an individual teacher»

If performance is to be rewarded, the unions insist that the rewards go to whole schools rather than individual teachers - which dilutes the impact on teacher incentives, but induces less competition among union members.

In the Fall issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, a scholar argues that the level of teacher collaboration in a school — what she refers to as a school's «social capital» — can be a powerful factor in boosting student achievement, perhaps even more powerful than individual teachers» abilities.

These include home, school and student factors that influence student learning gains and that matter more than the individual teacher in explaining changes in test scores.

These matter more than the individual teacher in explaining changes in scores.

School systems should use schoolwide scores in their evaluation calculations, rather than individual teachers» scores, which would also encourage school staffs to collaborate rather than compete.

Factors other than an individual teacher's efforts affect student performance in any given year.

This is in part because there are many other influences on student gains other than individual teachers, and in part because teachers» value - added ratings are affected by differences in the students who are assigned to them, even when statistical models try to control for student demographic variables.

However, research reveals that a student's achievement and measured gains are influenced by much more than any individual teacher.

We refuse to allow any data to be used for purposes other than the individual teacher's own formative or cumulative assessment.

AFT's David Hecker says he could see some value in a merit pay system that rewards schools as a whole, rather than individual teachers.

Not exact matches

I think that your idea of teaching, with interaction between the one teaching and the people being taught is better suited towards emphasizing that fact than preaching, because the teacher can then work with the listeners regarding how God can use the truths being taught in each individual believers life.

There's nothing I'd rather see than educational policymaking put back into the hands of the people who are most likely to treat kids as individual human beings — that is, their parents and teachers, preferably at as local a level as possible.

Sometimes it takes more than our own resources to pluck up the courage to follow our hearts, whether it is your mother, grandmother, teacher or best friend it seems there is often a certain individual that above all others has inspired us or spurred us on to make more of our creative lives.

Under the guiding eyes of Gentile and fellow AHS teachers Ward Dales and Gregory Marsh, more than 65 students have shared how they see themselves through their community and individual eye.

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

She is a Kripalu Certified Yoga teacher and personal trainer with more than a decade of experience sharing yoga with individuals with a variety of disabilities.

You'll likely get to go deeper into topics like philosophy and meditation, learn details about alignment, and get more individual attention from teachers than is possible in other settings.

It examined a larger number of students over a longer period of time with more in - depth data than many earlier studies, allowing for a deeper look at how much the quality of individual teachers matters over the long term, the Times reported.

With these authentic experiences, for both students and teachers, it is our hope that conceptions of learning, as broader than classroom teaching and learning, increase kindness both on an individual and global level.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

More than 120 alternative teacher - preparation programs in almost 550 sites are now operating in 47 states and the District of Columbia — producing a growing number of teacher - candidates, according to a national survey of individuals who are entering the field through alternative routes.

Blended learning, the mix of online learning in brick - and - mortar schools, can shift how teachers allocate their time by allowing them to actually work with students based on individual students» needs, rather than simply lecturing to an entire class that may have vastly different levels of understanding.

«In terms of individual country comparisons, the proportion of Australia's teachers who are 50 years and above is higher than all but five countries... Italy, Estonia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Sweden.

For example, less than half (47 percent) of Louisiana teachers thought that «selecting texts for individual students based on their reading levels» was an instructional approach aligned with standards (it's not) compared to 70 percent of teachers in other states.

Most new teachers (77 %) are hired through a decentralized process in which most of their interactions are with individual schools rather than with district central offices.

The impact of even a slightly better - than - average quality teacher — one whose effectiveness ranks at the 60th percentile, for example — still has significant economic results, raising an individual student's lifetime earnings by $ 5,300, or a class of 20 students» aggregate lifetime earnings by a total of $ 106,000.

This evaluation problem is further complicated by the fact that schools have goals other than cognitive achievement (for instance, promoting citizenship, fostering individual development, and reducing drug use and violence) that are difficult to measure and are often achieved only with teachers» cooperation.

Individual teachers» pay and benefits could be based on the scarcity of their skills and their individual performance rather than on Individual teachers» pay and benefits could be based on the scarcity of their skills and their individual performance rather than on individual performance rather than on seniority.

At the time, like today, far fewer individuals were being prepared to be mathematics teachers in California than the state needed.

In addition, there is compelling evidence that the quality of the individuals who are attracted to the field may be more powerful than differences in teacher preparation programs.

Some 43 % of teachers say they spend 60 % or more of the time administering assessment rather than interpreting what it means for individual students, with 15 % saying the proportion of time spent on administration is 80 % or more.

On average, union teachers may enjoy better salaries and benefits than nonunion teachers, but many individuals make tangible sacrifices under union contracts.

Even a modestly better than average teacher (60th percentile) raises individual earnings by $ 5,300, compared to what would otherwise be expected.

Often, teachers give students group tests, which, like the class worksheets, are designed to be harder than the individual assignments.

The teachers you interviewed saw leadership as a collective and reciprocal activity, rather than defining it in reference to an individual's power, status, title or level of remuneration.

As the values necessary for this century change, teachers are modeling them as a part of their teaching practice: tolerance, valuing difference, peacefully resolving conflict, views wider than just individual curriculum areas, global awareness, future orientations, and the importance of reflection in learning.

However, how we acknowledge this leadership and learning connection in terms of language remains a difficulty because who counts as this type of leader is always a tension when highlighting the collective rather than individual space in which teachers lead.

Rather than leaving the treatment of struggling students up to individual teachers, who may deal with them in vastly different ways, the school implements a uniform policy for intervening with students.

Fortunately, such claims are almost invariably pursued against the employer (and their insurers) rather than against the individual teacher or lecturer.

Teachers, we would argue, have a greater challenge than doctors in many ways: they see many more than one student simultaneously; they must mediate both group and individual learning; and they see students every day for protracted periods.

Each superintendent and in the case of the City School District of the City of New York, the chancellor, in collaboration with teachers, pupil personnel professionals, administrators and parents selected by the superintendent or in the case of the City School District of New York, the chancellor, with the advice of their respective peers, shall develop the professional performance review plan, which shall be approved by the governing body of each school district or BOCES, filed in the district or BOCES office, as applicable, and available for review by any individual no later than September 10th of each year.

«What I had no control over were the insensitive teachers who created roadblocks to their achievements, who assaulted their developing senses of self, who refused to take the time or expend the energy to teach to an individual rather than from a standardized student model.»

But it's long past time to acknowledge that reading tests — especially tests with stakes for individual teachers attached to them — do more harm than good.

Tests may need to be used for more than trend analysis — we may actually want accurate information on individual students, teachers, or schools.

Dominic Brewer and I analyzed teacher certification and its relationship to student achievement at the level of individual teachers and found that teachers with standard certification outperform those who are not certified in their field, but they do not appear to be more effective than those who hold emergency credentials (teachers who have not satisfied all of the requirements necessary to obtain a standard certificate).

There are nearly three and a half million public and private elementary and secondary teachers in the United States, more individuals by far than in any other occupation.

Rothbart's own motivation stemmed from years of frustration with individuals and systems that hurt rather than helped her children, with teachers who did not understand learning disabilities or believe her children had learning disabilities.

As much as we here at Teacherpensions.org would like to shift the conversation to whether or not those pension plans are providing adequate retirement security to all teachers — they generally are not — the reality is that state legislators are much more focused on these large budgetary pressures than they are on retirement benefits for individual teachers.

The traditional education system in China is often criticized for encouraging conformity, being highly examination - oriented, discouraging the development of students» creativity, and bolstering authoritarian teachers for whom the rigid and centralized curriculum is a more important agenda than catering to individual differences among students (Cheng, 2004).