Sentences with phrase «than targeting teachers»

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The Teacher Retirement System in Texas, which manages about $ 132 billion for more than 1.4 million current employees and beneficiaries, reduced its inflation rate assumption last month while reviewing its current investment target rate.

When it comes to bullying, we should hold adults to a much higher code of conduct than children since child bullies do not have control over their target's physical or psychological health or future like adults do who may be in the powerful position of teacher or coach.

MANHATTAN — Negotiations between the city and the teachers union on a new teacher evaluation system fell apart Friday, prompting the State Department of Education to suspend more than $ 60 million in federal funding that had been targeted at some of the city's worst - performing schools.

Susan Cohen is a mom, a special education teacher for more than three decades and a Target shopper extraordinaire — she admits, with the exception of the occasional Saturday night out, there aren't many occasions that she feels call for her to put on a full face of glamorous, super-trendy makeup.

P.K. Yonge decided it would make sense to start by systematically targeting one entire grade level, rather than a smattering of teachers and students across the many different grades.

The ERN strategy was to frame the issue as an effort by teachers unions to keep New York from winning RttT rather than targeting specific members in a negative way.

Women are more likely to spend time out of the workforce than men, and defined - benefit pension plans tend to punish teachers who fail to meet specific targets, such as 30 years of service.

The surprise is that factors other than seniority do appear to influence which teachers are targeted for layoffs.

Interestingly, all of these legal actions target the value - added component of teacher evaluation rather than classroom observations.

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

To avoid overwhelming teachers and students with daunting lists of curricular targets, an instructionally supportive accountability test should measure students» mastery of only an intellectually manageable number of curricular aims, more like a half - dozen than the 50 or so a teacher may encounter today.

Doing everything digitally means that teachers can upload evidence directly against their improvement targets in real - time, as well as being able to note down and discuss progress with their line managers throughout the year, rather than having to wait for a face - to - face annual meeting.

Coaches and teachers have progressed further on some of the targeted literacies, such as technology, than others.

Now sponsoring more than 50 projects, SchoolWorld has announced even more exciting new endeavors that target teachers in the United States.

The main reason is that women are more likely to spend time out of the workforce than men, and defined - benefit pension plans like the one in Ohio tend to punish teachers who fail to meet specific targets, such as 30 years of service.

Rather than delivering a series of lessons on predefined topics and then testing pupils on their abilities, CyberPass helps teachers identify strengths and weaknesses in the first instance, in order to target time and resources on the topics for which children really need support.

«So, working with Aboriginal kids in those remote schools and sharing some of their strategies - sharing those data - driven targets and high expectation strategies with graduate teachers so we can make it more of a system - wide way of thinking, rather than just an isolated school.»

By a two - to - one margin, however, respondents would prefer to see new funds for teacher pay distributed equally across all teachers rather than targeted toward those in high - demand subject areas, such as math and science (Q. 18, 19, 20).

The academic says that although the total number of Indigenous teachers identified by the National Teacher Workforce Dataset (NTWD) was larger than anticipated, a three-fold increase by 2018 would be required to meet the Close the Gap employment target (in the education sector), as agreed by all Australian governments.

Chris Smith, head of Target Tracker at EES for Schools said: «The lives of both teachers and parents are becoming increasingly busy and they are on the move more often than not.

Along the way, teachers came to look and feel like targets, rather than beneficiaries, of «school reform,» which may be why bread - and - butter demands from teachers are ascending as the guts of Bush - Obama school reform are sinking to the bottom of the «discarded school reform» sea.

«Basing 40 % of a New York educator's evaluation score on student learning makes delivering immediate feedback and targeted resources to help teachers improve more crucial than ever,» says Toth.

Even though it is more objective than the current one, which is based on classroom observations alone, Friedman maintains that teachers still could be wrongly targeted on subjective grounds.

They studied changes in one school district using written surveys of more than 200 teachers and classroom observations of teachers» instruction and writing activities of targeted students in 12 classrooms.

The Government has missed their own recruitment targets for the last five years and less than half of England's teachers last more than 10 years in the classroom.

Alexandria, VA (11/16/2015)-- Teachers can learn how to manage the complexities of student behavior and challenging texts by picking up a copy of ASCD's newest publications, Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management and Complex Text Decoded: How to Design Lessons and Use Strategies That Target Authentic Texts.

This way of thinking may be a different, more analytical way to approach the complex act of teaching than we are used to, but it soon becomes a more nuanced and targeted way to plan and teach, and by increasing the teacher's expertise, real student learning results!

In this case, the topic was one that just introduced the technique, and wasn't focused on their learning targets, but the process would be used in the next class to focus on what they needed and what they were interested in, rather than the teacher coming up with what they thought might be engaging for learners.

This free solution targets mainly U.S. K - 12 Math teachers, however it can be used by parents and math teachers in countries other than U.S.

So many EL teachers, classroom teachers, school leaders, guidance counselors and other educators are finding it more imperative than ever to make sure that student groups being targeted are cared for and that school can still be a functioning, welcoming place, even when the world outside is so uncertain.

After all, teaching a homogeneous group requires a teacher to hit one large target rather than many small ones.

He added: «Regional Schools Commissioners are using their local knowledge to hold schools to account and thanks to that expertise, and the support of head teacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.»

Testing pupils at the beginning of key stage 2, rather than at the end, is seen as less burdensome, and the government also claims it will allow teachers to identify which pupils need extra support to reach their end - of - primary target.

Our targets for annual teacher turnover will be less than 25 % in the first two years and less than 15 percent after that.»

On the contrary, personalized learning actually challenges teachers to design and execute better, more targeted interventions than ever before.

Rather than the traditional model, which encourages «teaching the middle» of the room, personalized learning empowers teachers to do what they've always known is right: giving each learner specific, targeted feedback and support that meets them at their level, takes advantage of what they already know and do well and pushes every student to improve in ways that are relevant and achievable for them.

He hopes to keep the conversation conducive to improvement rather than just a way to target bad teachers for dismissal, though that is one of the results.

Drew Furedi, formerly the executive director of Los Angeles Unified's talent management division and now its executive director of human capital initiatives, said the piloted changes focus on evaluation as «a growth and development tool rather than a punitive tool,» which will tie results to «aligned, targeted, professional development opportunities for teachers.»

Supporting teachers in developing their classroom practice through high quality CPD and more time to teach, rather than meet arbitrary Government targets, should be the aim of any Government, not introducing market forces into education.»

This is preventing the government from «fully understanding the problem», and also from setting regional targets rather than just national targets for the Teacher Supply Model, the report found.

Minority teachers are being driven out of schools by poor working conditions at rates higher than their non-minority colleagues, which only undermines years of recruitment efforts that have targeted minority teachers.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Arts for Learning serves more than 200,000 PK - 12 students annually in hundreds of schools across Georgia, with targeted supports for classroom teachers to implement arts - integrated instructional strategies, particularly those focused on literacy.

NUT Cymru policy officer Owen Hathway said: «It is far more important to look at how we support teachers and pupils in their workload pressures, professional development and with the right funding and resources rather than chasing targets which mean very little to individual pupils.»

Because the target group for this project was early preservice teachers, we designed an interactive video activity that drew heavily from the video annotation approach but changed it because the video annotation approach may be more sophisticated than necessary for early - stage teacher education students.

Location: Escondido, CA Setting: Urban School Type: District Targeted Grades: 9 - 12 Number of Participating Students: 501 - 1,000 Number of Participating Teachers: Less than 10 Curriculum Areas: Literacy, Science

The DfE's pay advice identifies a need for «targets and objectives that enable teachers to demonstrate performance, rather than simply results» (page 15).

Settings: Urban and Suburban School Types: District, Charter Targeted Grades: 6 - 12 Number of Participating Students: More than 1,000 Number of Participating Teachers: More than 200 Curriculum Areas: All

Resources dedicated to teaching and learning Ultimate administrative and budget targets should include student loads that promote personalization, substantial time for collective planning by teachers, competitive salaries for staff, and an ultimate per - pupil cost not to exceed that at traditional schools by more than 10 percent.