Sentences with phrase «to retain talented teachers»

We also need to think about how best to retain talented teachers in the schools that need them most.

In public schools, although salaries are much higher than for child care teachers, there is difficulty retaining talented teachers and recruiting more experienced teachers to troubled schools.

The leaders meanwhile said managing part - time staff created additional work for them, such as complicated timetabling, but admitted that this sort of arrangement helped retain talented teachers who might otherwise leave.

«Working with our community and district partners, the Teach Indy campaign will enable us to attract and retain talented teachers in our city, ensuring quality education is accessible to youth in our urban core.»

Allowing science teachers to explore the subject they love through real science projects is a key factor in attracting and retaining talented teachers that can inspire more students to continue in these fields, ultimately contributing to efforts to reduce the STEM skills gap.

Concerned that this system makes it difficult to retain talented teachers and provides few incentives for them to work to raise student achievement while in the classroom, many policymakers have proposed merit - pay programs that link teachers» salaries directly to their apparent impact on student achievement.

They can try to do so indirectly, via initiatives to recruit and retain talented teachers, to implement high - quality curricula, or to include measures of student engagement in school accountability systems.

According to Mckinsey's «Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top - Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching», in the United States for example, only 23 percent of new teachers come from the top third, and just 14 percent are in high poverty schools, where the difficulty of attracting and retaining talented teachers is particularly acute.

States and districts will need to recruit, prepare, and retain talented teachers and principals and support them with high - quality professional development, curriculum and instructional materials aligned with standards, and the tools to support data - based decisions.

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

Peter Schulman, chief talent officer for the DOE, said attracting and retaining talented teachers is a large part of the solution.

In schools in impoverished neighborhoods where principals have the most trouble hiring and retaining talented teachers, Teach for America staff would be more likely to have an advantage over their colleagues.

• I commit to supporting political candidates who support bold changes to teacher recruitment, preparation, support, and compensation, ensuring that the U.S. can attract and retain talented teachers in every classroom.

Professional compensation to attract and retain talented teachers and support professionals.

While this rate allows the state to pay off liabilities within the required 30 - year period, it does so at a high cost, precluding Massachusetts from spending those funds on other, more immediate means to retain talented teachers.

Beyond student achievement, principals also play a critical role in attracting and retaining talented teachers.