Sentences with phrase «to raise teacher»

Last year, lawmakers raised teacher pay for the first time after years of frozen wages.

What's more, there is no evidence that teacher pensions raise teacher quality overall.

By raising teacher effectiveness across the nation, we will raise the educational bar for all students, moving us closer to eliminating the achievement gap.

Unfortunately, the current version of professional development is universally seen as insufficient for raising teacher skills to the desired level.

While the initial cost of raising teacher starting pay to $ 40,000 may be significant, it's also a matter of budgeting priority.

If we are serious about raising standards in education, then we need to be serious about raising teacher standards.

She threw out a lot of ideas that met eager applause, from raising teacher salaries to reducing the role of standardized testing, to creating universal preschool for every child.

A bill introduced this legislative session in the state capital would have gradually raised teacher contributions to 7.5 percent of their salary, among other factors.

Our work is centered on professional development and resources to raise teacher capacity.

This project uses a bottom - up approach, raising teacher voices to the top.

It marks the biggest raises the teachers have received in a decade, and makes them among the highest paid teachers in the region.

The extra money he raises from the private sector will help to improve school facilities, buy better equipment, and perhaps even raise teacher salaries.

Nothing raises teachers respect for their colleagues as much as seeing them be successful with students.

It's also unclear whether federal intervention to raise teacher pay is desirable, would have a positive effect on retention, and would benefit student learning.

Reducing class size emerges as a cheaper way to boost achievement than raising teacher quality.

The state raised teacher salaries; required, funded and trained experienced teachers as mentors; developed licensing requirements and a staged licensing process; and required ongoing professional development.

Their work is centered on professional development and resources to raise teacher capacity.

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

The NCAE is demanding that state legislators raise both teacher pay and per - pupil spending to the national average in the next four years and freeze corporate tax cuts until that happens.

State Schools Superintendent Mark Johnson says raising teacher pay and resolving the K - 3 class size issue are major priorities in a video released less than a week after he made controversial comments about teacher pay.

The 5 - year project is designed to increase the number of well - prepared teachers entering the city's classrooms, provide ongoing support during the critical early years of teaching, and ultimately raise teacher retention rates and student achievement.

The average salary of $ 44,990 was recorded the year before average 7 percent raises teachers received in the 2014 - 15 budget.

The proposal, subject to state lawmakers» approval, would also raise teacher retirement ages for new hires and eliminate a $ 12,000 yearly payment received by many current police and fire department retirees.

By making the rounds of classrooms, administrators in this Malaysian school raise teachers» awareness of differentiated instruction.

Keep pushing to raise teacher sensitivity but, given that change takes time and there will always be someone in a child's world that is less - sensitive - than - desired, give that child McGonigal's tools too.

Meanwhile, Republicans in the GOP - controlled legislature brag about raising teacher salaries each of the past five years.

«Secretary of State Nicky Morgan raised teachers» expectations with her Workload Challenge only cruelly to dash them with a sanitised report that misinterpreted and misrepresented the evidence.

As discussed above, Act 10 did not directly raise teacher contributions, but the 12 percent minimum it established for the state plan set a standard that districts were now free to follow.

Illinois education officials have approved a new set of rules that all teachers must meet, and which the state hopes will bring it into line with new federal mandates aimed at raising teacher quality.

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

Such pay innovations should also boost student achievement and, because they are based on performance, strengthen the argument for dramatically raising teacher salaries — at least for those with the highest levels of professional expertise.

Q: How does the practice of leadership raise teachers» expectations and increase their sense of responsibility of student achievement?

In Visalia, Ravalin said district officials raised all teacher salaries by a total of 1.5 percent above the scheduled cost of living increase last year, in part to help with recruitment.

Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley suggests a year - round schedule, automatically raising teachers» pay 20 percent for the added work time.

If, for example, a year of work raises a teacher's pension wealth by $ 50,000 (net of interest on the prior year's pension wealth), it is as if she had a 401 (k) account that received $ 50,000 in contributions that year.

«I don't think there is any other country where a grassroots organisation had such a profound impact on raising teacher professionalism than Teach First in England.»

The North Carolina Association of Educators released a list of priorities for Wednesday's mass teacher march in Raleigh that include raising both teacher pay and per - pupil spending to the national average in the next four years.

As Secretary Rod Paige so well noted in his first annual report to Congress on Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge in June 2002, the teacher preparation system is «broken», and, although Texas has done a better job than most states in raising teacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generalization.

Some Utah school districts like Canyons, Granite and Jordan raised teachers» pay in hopes of getting teachers to stay in their districts.

The authors of the report suggest that rather than focusing on costly reforms like raising teacher salaries, schools should attempt to retain minority teachers by improving working conditions, such as giving teachers more autonomy in the classroom, providing more supplies and resources, and giving faculty members more of a say in school - wide decisions.

By providing immediate, nonjudgmental feedback on practices they witnessed — combined with background information connected to each practice — Powell and Napoliello raised teachers» awareness of each instructional approach and how they might sharpen their use of it.

I think these organizations will help raise teacher voice, and we're going to clearly partner with a number of them to bring their voice into the union and also to think about how to use those voices more strategically in the policy debates.

In this Malaysia school, administrators raise teachers» awareness of differentiated instruction.

But researchers said evidence suggested «very small or no effects on attainment», although they could positively affect pupils» attitudes and raise teacher morale.

Tennessee will make raising teacher salaries a budget priority, Gov. Bill Haslam announced Thursday afternoon at a press conference before the state's Teacher of the Year celebration.