Sentences with phrase «than forcing teachers»

This allows teachers to access information and build relationships according to their own needs and pace, rather than forcing teachers to fit into «one size fits all» form of professional learning.

With more highly effective teachers clustered in high - poverty schools, these districts could close the comparability gap through supporting highly effective teachers in these schools rather than forcing teachers to move to high - poverty schools.

Not exact matches

Conversely, 36 % of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood educators, and secondary school teachers — all of which fall within a less than 1 % chance of automation.

When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers, and that can lead to automatic termination, it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

A task force by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

More than 200 public school parents joined with StudentsFirstNY and prominent clergy leaders today to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio rethink his decision to force unwanted teachers into New York City schools.

«When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers... it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.

A task force by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

Mr. Loeb urged that people «take up the fight against the teachers union, the single biggest force standing in the way of quality education and an organization that has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination against people of color than the K.K.K.»

Mattie is a force to be reckoned with, more so than the teacher's pet know - it - all of Henry Hathaway's 1969 version, and the Coens» casting of an unknown (Hailee Steinfeld) underlines her character's self - made independence.

Donnie will soon stage his own personal rebellion against the forces of Reagan - era conformity, represented less by his parents (Holmes Osborne and Mary McDonnell, both superb) than by his high school's viciously censorious gym teacher (a priceless Beth Grant) and her motivational - speaker crony (Patrick Swayze).

Since students in the early grades generally have a limited attention span and suffer from learning fatigue in a more demonstrative way than older students, elementary school teachers are constantly forced to manage the learning state more acutely than teachers of middle school and high school.

These things are important, because it suggests that there are much larger forces at play in teacher retention decisions than whatever education cause du jour receives the blame.

The new mindframe suggests that when thinking about assessment, including formative assessments, as a reflection of a teacher's effort more than the students» it turns assessment into a positive force for designing instruction.

Philadelphia's public schools, which just re-opened Oct. 29 following a 50 - day teacher walkout, could be forced to close earlier than planned at the end of this school year for lack of money, according to Superintendent of Schools Michael P. Marcase.

Overall, a teacher can give the right instruction at the right time as his teaching becomes responsive to students, rather than responsive to other forces.

However, were districts to adopt policies that allowed administrators to dismiss teachers according to their effectiveness rather than their seniority, they could lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and increase the overall efficacy of their teaching force.

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

According to research gathered under the auspices of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, the charter story was even bigger than the teacher union story, despite the recall election drama in Wisconsin and the bitter strike in Chicago.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

That's the problem, say opponents: Children are being forced to travel to school on moving media kiosks, and the tactic isn't much different than dressing teachers in sponsor - emblazoned uniforms.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Correlation does not imply causation, however, and it would be important to use archival data to study the introduction of specific policies regarding teacher recruitment and retention to see whether these policies achieve more diverse teaching forces as a consequence — or whether diverse teaching forces achieved via these policies are more or less effective than are those otherwise observed.

Constructivist pedagogical guidelines are forced on classroom teachers in weekly «professional development» sessions that are closer to a military boot camp than any serious inquiry into the best classroom practices.

They will be able to hire and maintain a teaching force with the goal of higher test scores in mind, and they will have more flexibility than public schools do to reward or punish their teachers on the basis of test results.

Hanushek calculates that this highly effective teacher (in the top 16 percent of the teaching force) will shift the typical student's lifetime earnings up by more than $ 20,000.

Gov. John Engler of Michigan has signed one of the first state laws in recent years to relax, rather than tighten, legal curbs on how much force teachers can use on students.

Dodge: Teachers can bring the Web (and thus the world) to where the kids are, rather than forcing them to move to a desktop computer or a lab.

Less than a year after Cuomo wanted to link 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation to student test scores, he called for a «total reboot» of the system and formed the Common Core task force to investigate.

For more than twenty years, my educational foundation has joined forces with teachers, parents, students, administrators, and business and community leaders to illuminate the most innovative learning strategies to be found in K - 12 classrooms across the country.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

If you are forced by an outdated seniority system to pay some teachers more than they are worth or could get in private industry, or accept less effort, resources are being expended based on what is good for the union and teachers and not what is best for kids.

But the union case was strengthened by data obtained by the TUC from the nationwide Labour Force Survey, showing that teachers carried out more unpaid overtime in 2013 than any other profession.

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

The largest drop took place in the District, where between 2003 and 2011, the portion of the D.C. teaching force that was white more than doubled from 16 percent to 39 percent while the share of teachers who were black shrank from 77 percent to 49 percent.

Teachers, under enormous pressure, are forced to teach to the tests rather than, you know, teach critical thinking or creative expression; and education is reduced to something rote, linear and boring.

For more than three years, the de Blasio Administration has promised that forced placement of teachers was not an option and that principals would be able to decide which teachers were hired into their schools.

If he wants a workout, he can burn some calories coming up with a better plan than forcing ATR teachers back into the classroom,» said StudentsFirstNY Organizing Manager Darlene Boston.

Although people of color constitute more than one - third of the U.S. labor force, less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.

At the time, the findings were stark: While students of color made up more than 40 percent of the school - age population, teachers of color were only 17 percent of the teaching force.

With its forced dues scheme, every public school teacher in the Golden State is made to fork over on average more than $ 1,000 a year, with much of that money going to buy legislators.

Each cultural force provides a leverage point for teachers to use in creating classrooms where thinking is more than an add - on activity or part of a single lesson.

A recent Education Next poll reveals that teachers are more likely to oppose forced dues than to support them, by a 47 — 44 percent margin.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

Thirty - nine percent of teachers in high - minority Mississippi schools have less than four years of experience, while rookie teachers make up just 15 percent of the teaching force at low - minority schools.

More than 200 public school parents joined with StudentsFirstNY and prominent clergy leaders today to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio rethink his decision to force unwanted teachers into New York City schools.

The report forces us to take a fresh look at teacher attrition and wakes us up to the fact that our problem is more than just retaining enough teachers, but retaining the right ones.

The conversation about teacher pay is more than just about market forces and local economic growth.