Sentences with phrase «than teachers without»

Teachers with a master's degree in the field of education can earn a higher salary than teachers without a master's degree.
Gigante and Firestone (2007) found that teacher leaders who were provided time to work with teachers during the school day, in addition to the support of administrators, were more likely to engage in tasks that advanced teacher learning than teachers without time and administrator support.
Teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards are for the most part no more effective in producing student academic progress than teachers without the special status, a long - awaited study concludes.
Teachers who earn advanced certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards are more effective than teachers without that credential, but there's little evidence to show the program has transformed the field in the broader ways its founders envisioned, a long - awaited report released today by a national scientific panel finds.

Not exact matches

In some universities, you can go from enrolment to graduation without requiring paper for anything other than exams — study guides, textbooks, assignments, teacher assessments are all executed and delivered digitally.
If you feel I've mischaracterized the guidance, I'd be interested in how you think divine guidance can influence decisions without interfering with free will (try something other than the teacher analogy).
In the final season of Breaking Bad, Walter White, the chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, has made more money than he can spend without breaking his cover as a mild - mannered cancer survivor.
Other than making sure the kids clean up after themselves, there isn't much work left for the teachers — especially without those rosters.
They argue that schooling the twins together allows them to experience the same teacher and teaching style without one having a «better» or «more fun» experience than the other.
On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).
Teachers with more dependents received higher salaries than those without, and neither degrees nor length of service played into the financial support received.
Rather than having parents and teachers punish bad behavior without addressing the causes, therapeutic boarding schools get to the heart of the matter and work on healing emotional, behavioral and mental health problems that each teen is facing.
The city pays more than 800 teachers without permanent jobs, and now plans to put them into school vacancies, whether principals want them or not.
Teachers and employees at CUNY have now gone six years without a raise and five years without a new contract, said Sharon Persinger, Treasurer of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union representing more than 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff.
Promising to build more SHS schools than NDC's 200 without addressing the related issues of what else you will do to ensure that more teachers are not only trained, but employed to produce quality education to our children, will not do.
Teachers often feel that the expertise they have gained from their experience is ignored and that they instead get a new, supposedly evidence - based curriculum every few years without much explanation of why the new one is so much better than the old.
Gross cites an unpublished study that found a cohort of fourth graders in schools with Vermont Mathematics Institute — trained teachers performed significantly better in math four and six years later than a matched group attending schools without such teachers.
The film presents a lot of statistics — almost more than can be taken in on one viewing, in fact — about the state of manhood in this country, but it also shows examples of what parents and teachers and coaches and other role models can do to raise men who can be strong and powerful without shutting off their feelings.
And my teacher said, «Without a light meter you managed to do better than most of my other students do with a light meter.»
Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.
These teachers would also receive evaluation scores that are less fair than the ones produced without opt - out in a system their union already believes is unfair.
Teachers can not expect middle school students to stay in a favorable learning state for more than 15 minutes without intervention.
In fact, 2008 graduates both with and without STEM majors who entered the teacher workforce had higher average SAT scores than their peers who entered other occupations.
State teachers» unions in states with unfavorable labor laws receive a higher proportion of their budget from NEA's national office than those without.
Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.
The fact that teachers with master's degrees are no more effective in the classroom, on average, than their colleagues without advanced degrees is one of the most consistent findings in education research.
Students of teachers who hold certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards achieve, on average, no greater academic progress than students of teachers without the special status, a long - awaited study using North Carolina data concludes.
According to the Urban Institute's Matthew Chingos, «the fact that teachers with master's degrees are no more effective in the classroom, on average, than their colleagues without advanced degrees is one of the most consistent findings in education research.»
Most teachers, if they plan for that establishment phase with positive core routines, thoughtful behaviour expectations published in a user - friendly and age appropriate way — and positively, you know not «don't call out» or «don't talk while the teacher is talking» but positively «hands up without calling out» rather than «don't call out», «facing the front and listening» rather than «don't talk while the teacher's trying to teach».
Simply by giving up the extra payment awarded to teachers with master's degrees, school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing any of their classroom effectiveness.
In order to provide authentic bilingual education, schools must have teachers who are fluent in the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classroom.
The day when a new teacher in Virginia holds a teaching license that is accepted without hassle in Delaware may be less than a year away.
The survey, which asked over 1,100 head teachers, insinuated that 31 per cent of school leaders believe that more than half of their new starters in Reception had arrived under - prepared in some way, with 78 per cent claiming that they pupils behind expected levels in speaking and without the social skills expected at the age of four.
Truth: Many teachers are hired who show experience in a variety of career fields without any background in education other than coursework.
The survey results suggested that «Teachers prepared in a single formal program of preparation feel better prepared than those who take a series of courses from different institutions, who in turn feel better prepared than those who enter through alternative programs... and those who enter without prior experience or training.»
Back at home, tell your kid you want to test the teacher estimate (s), so you want your kid to complete all homework each night for one week without any discussion (other than homework help, of course), any «breaks,» or any delays.
In a recent survey by Public Agenda, more than 80 percent of teachers said that without unions, they would be vulnerable to the vagaries of school politics, and their salaries and working conditions would be much worse.
In our recent paper «Friends without Benefits,» we used pension plan assumptions for all 50 states and the District of Columbia to estimate that more than half of all teachers won't qualify for even a minimal pension.
Specifically, students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.
Students in countries that permit teacher salaries to be adjusted for outstanding performance score approximately one - quarter of a standard deviation higher on the international math and reading tests, and about 15 percent higher on the science test, than students in countries without performance pay.
«Rather than following a more traditional professional - development model — where you take teachers out of their school or out of their classroom and «train'them and then send them back without follow - up or support — this is an entirely different process,» said Michael Patron, the headmaster...
When teachers relinquish control (without losing power) to the students, rather than promoting compliance with directives and commands, student engagement levels are likely to increase as a result (Reeve, Jang, Carrell, Jeon, & Barch, 2004).
«In general, female students are able to sit for longer periods of time without breaks; they are less likely to interrupt teachers in a classroom; and they read more than males do.
More teachers will report to work without contracts this fall than ever before, school and union officials say, but there will be fewer strikes this year than there have been in recent years.
Without a mentor, nearly one in three new teachers leave by their fifth year, but with a mentor that ratio drops by more than half, to one in seven.
The hope is that primary school PE will be improved, with facilities, resources, equipment and skilled teachers all more possible with the extra funding than it was without, with a knock - on effect to gradually be in place for future generations.
Without valid information on the performance of students at each school relative to that of their peers across the country, the entire education enterprise flies blind, leaving parents, teachers, school managers, and policymakers with nothing more than intuition and consensus as the basis for making decisions.
On the other hand, research suggests teachers trained in gifted education, for instance, preservice teachers with practicum and fieldwork experiences working with gifted students, are more aware of their needs than peers without this training.
These analysts took advantage of the fact that the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) not only tested a nationally representative sample of U.S. 8th graders in math and science, but also asked their teachers what percentage of class time was taken up by students «listening to lecture - style presentations» rather than either «working on problems with the teacher's guidance» or «working on problems without guidance.»
Teachers often talk to us about the impact on pupils» behaviour when they've had a proper lunch rather than filling up on foods full of empty calories, and smaller studies comparing exam results at schools with breakfast clubs to those at schools without found pupils got better results where healthy breakfasts were on offer.
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