Sentences with phrase «to base teacher»

But school principals varied widely in their implementation of the performance - based teacher evaluation system across the ten - school pilot, which raised questions about the system's fairness.

In a practice - based teacher education program with rigorous faculty selection criteria and high admissions standards, the best teachers would train the best teaching candidates.

Participants will interact with colleagues and the presenter and learn the components of a performance based teacher preparation program.

A commitment to teaching in hard to serve but well - led public schools should be rewarded with the forgiveness of all undergraduate debt in university education and associated university - based teacher training.

It instead based teacher pay on the union rate for a seven - year teacher with a master's degree who works in a district school.

But while base teacher salaries have not risen, total teacher compensation has, driven by large increases in health care and retirement costs.

Description: Participants will interact with colleagues and the presenter and learn the components of a performance based teacher preparation program.

Building on extensive evidence that school - based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures.

Findings from a video - based teacher professional development programme.

The community focused on building upon the Pyramid Model, a framework of evidence - based teacher practices to promote social emotional development and prevent challenging behavior.

They help create the enabling conditions for distributed leadership that allows teacher leaders to lead proven, content - specific, equity - based teacher development.

As a field - based teacher educator, I had learned much from sitting in on these meetings the previous year.

Students get a new home base teacher when they reach high school, whom they stick with all four years.

Develop highly - effective, performance - based teacher residency programs by offering cutting - edge technical assistance.

We estimate the impact of incentive strength on achievement under a group - based teacher incentive pay program.

Every dollar you give helps us develop and implement our school - based teacher effectiveness programs.

My proposal was for an organization that identified evidenced - based teacher moves that educators could use to promote character strengths.

With this in mind, we see the results of our study as representing the effect of group - based teacher merit pay for schools that are already under accountability pressure.

Some say it's unfair to base teacher personnel decisions on student test scores.

About a quarter of the states have begun to use versions of the first two sets of standards in new, performance - based teacher licensing systems.

Some dedicated teachers might prefer permanent civil - service - based teacher contracts.

In many cases the average pay structure for school - based teachers gives districts exactly what they pay for — little to no teacher enthusiasm.

This problem has become particularly acute in education, though, and we found that low mid - and late - career base teacher salaries are an issue in almost every state.

For instance, we need to update university - based teacher prep programs, not eradicate them, as some advocates intimate.

Establish content - based teacher cohorts to support teacher growth throughout their first three years.

Either you can reduce testing, or you can continue to demand test - based teacher evaluations in all subjects.

The earliest iterations of teacher training following this perspective were found in the competency - based teacher education movement.

BEST scholars experience a rich, inquiry - based teacher preparation program and work closely with teachers, mathematics educators, engineers, and students.

This research brief considers the stability of value - added measures of teacher effectiveness over time and the resulting implications for the design and implementation of performance - based teacher compensation schemes.

The local district continues to base teacher pay on years of service and advanced degrees, rather than on merit.

Each home base teacher is assigned a group of students, which stays the same for three years of middle school.

The experience of the network leaves us with new questions to explore are questions that we are continuing to explore together as a form of conversation - based teacher development.

Lizana Oberholzer of the National Association of School Based Teacher Trainers said: «The reduction of bursaries could mean it is not attractive for people to train to teach.»

In 2011, the court issued a ruling in the case, protecting 45 low - income schools from budget - based layoffs, a direct challenge to the existing practice of basing teacher layoffs solely on seniority.

In 2009, only Arizona prohibited school districts from basing teacher layoffs on seniority.

In addition to providing filter tools within Hire, TalentEd offers the Teacher Educators Professional Inventory (Teacher EPI) ® — a first - of - its - kind, research - based teacher assessment tool that allows district leaders to accurately predict which teacher candidates will have the greatest impact on student learning.

Establishing school - based teacher leaders who can act in the space between classrooms and other agents in the educational ecosystem is critical for two reasons:... more»

Lizana Oberholzer of the National Association of School Based Teacher Training said she supported higher maths standards for teachers - but said it was also important to attract trainees from a wider pool of graduates.

This allows the principal to honor and appreciate on a regular basis teachers who take risks, it acknowledges that failure is part of learning and improving, and it provides teachers the opportunity to support each other.

The visions I present build upon initiatives and activities that are underway, such as our recent publications and programs developed from the ATE Commission on Clinically Based Teacher Preparation (CCBTP)-- formed in 2011 by Past President — Jim Alouf and chaired by John McIntyre.

They have called for basing teacher tenure on student performance and abolishing «last - in, first - out,» which protects senior teachers in layoffs.

To wit, the American Federation of Teachers, a D.C. based teachers union, gave $ 150,000 to one of the anti-reformers in the same election in Los Angeles that had Fletcher's knickers in a twist.

Thanks to new research, however, the Gates Foundation and others are warning districts and states not to over-rely on test - based teacher rating systems and encouraging districts to consider the value of other methods like traditional observation and student surveys along with test score results.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been vigorously lobbying for the quick adoption of the evaluations as a cornerstone of his push to end the state's «Last in, First Out» seniority - based teacher firing policy ahead of a massive layoff plan.

Do you favor or oppose basing a teacher» s salary, in part, on his or her students» academic progress on state tests?

Now, 15 states have policies that base teacher tenure partly on student test scores, up from eight just a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the advocacy group, StudentsFirst.

We have arrived at an important milestone in the development of clinically based teacher preparation, where going to scale is more possible because individual programs will not have to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch.