So why not exercise the same principle when
hiring the best teachers for students by using a research - based method for screening and interviewing candidates?
Instead of using this passive strategy, the authors of
Hire Better Teachers Now: Using the Science of Selection to Find the Best Teachers for Your School suggest a research - based approach that can enhance hiring practices.
To ensure Niagara Catholic schools
consistently hire the best teachers, the school board recently implemented Teacher EPI ® — that helps leaders identify top teacher candidates based on qualifications, teaching skills, cognitive ability and attitudinal factors.
To maximize student learning, school and district leaders are looking to data to help them identify and
hire the best teachers in their applicant pools... before those teachers move on to other opportunities.
«By bringing together the data we need to
hire better teachers on the front end, evaluating effectiveness of teacher performance and connecting it to professional development in real - time, we can realize cost and time savings while improving academic outcomes for students.»
It's the darker side of competition that Milton Friedman and his free - market disciples tend to downplay: If parents value high test scores, you can compete for voucher dollars
by hiring better teachers and providing a better education — or by going easy in grading national tests.
To ensure Niagara Catholic schools
consistently hire the best teachers, the school board recently implemented the Teacher Educators Professional Inventory (Teacher EPI) ® — a research - based teacher assessment tool that helps leaders identify top teacher candidates based on qualifications, teaching skills, cognitive ability and attitudinal factors.
«I think the district should
hire the best teacher for the kids, regardless of where they come from,» says James, a five - year teacher who came to the classroom...
«They should be able to supplement those cuts in time that they can
hire better teachers, make a little dent in classroom size..
Our philosophy is to
hire good teachers and let them design the course.
Emanuel took the opposite view, airing commercials that listed his wins: a longer school day, principals» freedom to
hire the best teachers, parents» freedom to choose the best schools, and a teacher evaluation system that would factor in student achievement.
Increases in state funds usually come with strings that hamper the ability of an individual district to
hire better teachers, adopt new technology, and respond to parental demands.
Litt again used the Core Knowledge curriculum, and
he hired the best teachers he knew.
The piece, which aired during the CBS Evening News, said that if the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership Program is successful, «school systems will end up with better leaders who
hire better teachers, and American students may finally make the grade.»
It has been getting more and more difficult to
hire good teachers.
Briggs» aim was not only to
hire the best teachers that he could find, but also to hire a faculty that would help establish Joel Barlow HS as the best high school in the state.
This would be fine if their schools were receiving the funds necessary to
hire good teachers and to create an inspiring environment for learning.
Always keep in mind that we have two primary ways to improve our schools —
hire better teachers and improve the ones we have.
Hire Better Teachers Now: Using the Science of Selection to Find the Best Teachers for Your School By Dale S. Rose, Andrew English, and Treena Gillespie — Reviewed by Adam D. Drummond
This includes the money to
hire good teachers and ensure continuing professional development, provide small classes, books, technology and supplies, in a comfortable, clean and hospitable environment, in order to ensure that all children receive an adequate and equitable opportunity to learn.
«CirQlive enabled us to take our brick and mortar school worldwide, recruit and serve more students,
hire the best teachers and enhance education.»
High verbal ability, fairness and respect, good classroom management, effective instructional planning, ability to engage students, and ability to individualize instruction (James H. Stronge and Jennifer L. Hindman, «
Hiring the Best Teachers,» p. 48).
Districts need to
hire good teachers but also to keep them (Ballou 1996; Boyd, Grossman et al. 2010).
A Minneapolis principal (who hates charter schools) recently told me, «If you let
me hire the best teachers I can find, get rid of my worst and extend the school day, my school could compete with any charter in the state.»
The Wall Street Journal interviewed some principals who «say they have
hired good teachers from this pool [205 were hired on a provisional basis over the last year] but caution that many teachers who linger in it for years are poor performers or don't even try to get jobs.»
basically, we need to strengthen the traditional public schools: budget our money and place our priorities there,
hire better teachers, focus on early education and health care, literacy, libraries, and college / career - awareness.
The way to
hire better teachers is to tell the public what teachers actually earn.
Legal and union requirements and a short funding timeline made it difficult for some of the schools studied to find and
hire the best teachers and principals and remove ineffective staff.
Rosenstock set out to
hire the best teachers he could find, a task he knew would be complicated.
«Without the work of HR teams, schools wouldn't be able to
hire the best teachers and students wouldn't have the best academic opportunities.»
If you are smart, and perhaps a little lucky,
you hire a good teacher who takes you much further than you could have gone on your own.