Sentences with phrase «than judge teachers»

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Gulen denies the accusations, but authorities have launched a crackdown on his vast network of followers, removing or suspending more than 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, teacher, diplomats and journalists.

Yes, the first part of that passage does say that teachers will be judged more strictly, but it's not my job to judge them at all — someOne better equipped than I will do that.

Judge Baugh sentenced Rambold to 30 days in prison, saying that the girl, Cherice Moralzez, was «as much in control of the situation» as her teacher was and that she was «older than her chronological age,» whatever that even means.

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

Teachers themselves want to better understand how changes they make to learning design and adaptive delivery can improve their own work and the majority of our students are much more sophisticated judges of effective classroom practice than ever before.

Why is it that today just eleven states use a Common Core assessment, less than a third of the states are judged to have made any effort to adhere to the Core, and the phrase «Common Core» remains polarizing and generally unpopular with Republicans, parents, and teachers?

But the same principals, when asked to evaluate the teachers formally as part of the state's mandatory evaluation system, gave fewer than 3 % of their teachers a less than «effective» score on any of the seven standards against which they were judged.

More than half the 52,400 teachers surveyed for a federal report judged the professional development they received «very useful.»

Judge Robert B. Freedman agreed with the plaintiffs in Valenzuela v. O'Connell that students who have failed the test — especially English - language learners — have not had a fair chance to learn the material because they were more likely than others to attend overcrowded schools and have unqualified teachers.

And judging by the survey results it looks as if about a quarter of the teachers might favor Governor Walker's proposals to ask unions to collect their own dues rather than have the government take the money directly from the teacher's paycheck.

Students will test the limits of acceptable behavior in myriad ways better known to school teachers than to judges; school officials need a degree of flexible authority to respond to disciplinary challenges; and the law has always considered the relationship between teachers and students special.

Qualified teachers were judged more essential in improving education by those polled than standards, tests, vouchers, privatization, or school uniforms.

Whatever you think, schools are being judged and scrutinised now more than ever about what facilities they are offering to children to fulfill learning criteria in the early years curriculum and this provides a great chance for landscapers to be creative and help in providing teachers with fantastic, unique outside spaces.

A similar study also suggested a positive correlation between teachers» ratings of attractiveness and expectations of children's skills [26] showing that teachers judged children rated as more attractive as more social, confident, popular, academically strong, and more likely to become leaders than students who were rated as less attractive.

«You're leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by... a test,» said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has more than 40,000 members.

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.

The union representing Ireland's secondary - school teachers reacted with a statement saying that a major strength of the Irish education system has been students» perception of their teachers as «an advocate in terms of nationally certified examinations rather than as a judge.»

If English teachers judge GCSE English essays, will they agree with each other to a higher level of reliability than if they mark them?

Her IMPACT teacher evaluation system gives teachers the chance to improve, and that is what is happening with more than 700 D.C. teachers judged «minimally effective» on last year's IMPACT evaluations.

In declaring Connecticut's school funding system unconstitutional, Hartford Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher pronounced universally glowing teacher evaluations «uselessly perfect» and called the state's poor school rating system «little more than cotton candy in a rainstorm.»

Also, suppose that principal evaluations do not closely correspond to teachers» actual contributions to the school community, perhaps because the principal judges this based in part on how well the principal gets along with the teacher rather than, as intended, how much the teacher helps other colleagues.

Many younger educators, who attended school when student testing took hold, feel more comfortable than veteran teachers using data to alter their teaching methods and to judge their performance.

Thus, judging writing requires a collaborative and evolving process rather than a rigid formula, even a formula like a rubric created by teachers themselves.

If you want to judge schools and teachers than the starting point is to place children in classes by their abilities.

The study's design, in which teachers were judged against percentile benchmarks rather than their colleagues» performance, sought to preserve collaboration among teachers.

With the recent Race to the Top mandates, evaluation systems may be more rigorous than ever, though they often judge teachers by a rigidly and often inaccurate value - added measure of their effectiveness in raising test scores (Özek & Xu, 2015; Raudenbush, 2015).

Co-author Dr Elizabeth Burn, a retired primary teacher, told Schools Week: «Children and teachers are judged on their genders rather than teaching capabilities — we are wasting talent.

We demand that NYS change its education laws so teachers can return to the practice of seeing their students as human beings who are so much more than a test score or a robot that must adhere to absurd requirements under the Danielson Rubric in order for their teacher to be judged «effective» or «highly effective.»

For those interested please see the teacher survey reported by the CTA showing more than half of teachers judging districts as falling short... Read More

With accountability, some teachers will be judged better than others.

New teacher evaluation systems have been changed in at least 33 states since 2009, and more than two dozen states are relying on both observations and student growth on test scores to judge a teacher's effectiveness.

In 2012, all but one student in the secondary - teacher training program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst refused to participate in the exam, arguing that mentors who observed them in a student teaching setting for months would be better judges of their teaching ability than Pearson, the education company administering the exams.

For those interested please see the teacher survey reported by the CTA showing more than half of teachers judging districts as falling short on committing the necessary resources to Common Core.

The best policy is likely to push these decisions about teacher compensation downward below the district level to the school level, as the teachers» present management will likely be better positioned to judge the value and relevance of teachers» (often commendable) efforts to improve their subject knowledge than is the personnel office of a huge, wasteful district like LAUSD, while making these decisions at the state level is even less likely to prove efficient.

That's more than 10,000 schools and tens of thousands of teachers judged in one - off lessons.

Here, professional teachers are seen as broadly contributing to the quality of education; they advocate for equitable policies that challenge the status quo, their purview is extended to include debates over the purposes of schooling, and their success is judged on more than students» performance on standardized tests.

The state, along with the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and various other charter schools, had asked the judge to put the 1st Circuit ruling on hold, warning that the ruling will dramatically impact more than 16,000 charter school students and thousands of teachers, administrators and other staff.

Public school advocates, teachers and teacher unions across the nation condemned the judge's ruling as unfair, inappropriate and little more than a propaganda piece for the billionaires who are funding the corporate education reform industry's attack on public education in the United States.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

Me, I think that our education schools are unreliable judges of prospective teacher effectiveness (NPR: «The U.S. spends more than $ 7 billion a year preparing classroom teachers, but teachers are not coming out of the nation's colleges of education ready») but effective preparation is important.

Rather than develop a teacher evaluation system based on how well that educator is actually doing, Malloy and the education reformers want to stick with a faulty system that will unfairly judge teachers on factors beyond their control.

While the gap has shrunk, more teachers are scoring level 5s based on test scores than are being judged level 5s by their observers.

For example, the judge wrote that the state's teacher evaluation system is «little more than cotton candy in a rainstorm» since «[s] tate standards are leaving teachers with uselessly perfect evaluations and pay that follows only seniority and degrees instead of reflecting need and good teaching.»

Many of the students that come to us for help are rather desperate: they are trying to balance their work, their personal life, and their academic career all at the same time, and the teachers judging their work are often giving them more assignments than ever before, making it harder and harder to succeed.

Some may argue that no, these people are public servants, like teachers or judges, who rate bonds business they think it is a higher calling and even though they could earn tens to thousands more trading bonds than rating them, they stick it out because of their great hearts.

Judging from what I saw, and speaking as a one - time property teacher, I think we have a way to go before Second Life contributes more to learning than to the wow factor.

Think of your social worker as an adoption teacher rather than a judge.