Sentences with phrase «to reward teachers»

Learning Bird, which offers affordable online individualized learning experiences to K - 12 students, and rewards teachers both inside and outside of the classroom.

The Empire State Excellence in Teaching Program aims to reward teachers who «foster creativity, instill a love of learning, and inspire independent thinking and student initiative,» according to an announcement from Cuomo's office.

Freakonomics: the first book to look at the combination of markets, economics and human behaviour in particular activities, from drug dealing, to the flaws of rewarding teachers on pupils» performance.

Commenting on the statement on licensing teachers by Tristram Hunt, Shadow Education Secretary, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «When this proposal was made by the last Government in 2010, it was in the context of a national framework of pay and conditions of service which recognised and rewarded teachers as highly skilled professionals and which provided them with rights and entitlements to working conditions which supported them in focusing on teaching and learning.

It is imperative that we develop a system to evaluate and reward teacher capacity.

One Comment about Obama's speech today on testing students and rewarding teachers for the performance of the students: The Chicago Tribune recently ran an article stating that the Chicago and Illinois schools were RECLASSIFYING JUNIORS AS SOPHOMORES SO THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO TAKE THE TESTS.

This is about rewarding teachers, with the aim of retaining great staff and improving student outcomes.»

Questions Abound for New Program that Rewards Teachers Based on SAT and ACT Scores Tampa Bay Times, 6/27/15 «Many supporters point to Finland and Singapore for examples of where the «best and brightest» approach works.

In July 2012, Obama proposed creating an elite corps of master teachers in a $ 1 billion program to reward teachers in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math.

This study leaves open the question of whether a bonus program that rewards teachers for their own specific effectiveness would be more successful.

Under IMPACT, the district sets detailed standards for high - quality instruction, conducts multiple observations, assesses individual performance based on evidence of student progress, and retains and rewards teachers based on annual ratings.

«Why not reward teachers who use technology by providing them with better equipment, software, and so on, as they show an increased interest and proficiency?

Currently, the 3,400 - member Toledo union, which includes 2,700 teachers, has some incentive programs that reward teachers for acquiring additional skills, Lawrence said.

Associating teacher evaluations with student performance, and rewarding teachers accordingly, is now all but taken for granted in state after state — and by prominent national figures, including President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

If your school has the resources, reward those teachers with an extra professional day, a coveted software program, museum tickets, or admission to a local education conference as well.

In 2005, Pawlenty passed a Minnesota - wide teacher pay - for - performance plan called «Q Comp,» which rewards teachers based on evaluations.

States should reward teachers for making these choices.

The pilot program will ultimately reward teachers through incentives and pay increases.

For example, suppose it is school policy to reward teachers who score in the top 10 percent.

Those who want to reward teachers on the basis of measured performance should consider whether it is worth the trouble and expense to implement value - added assessment if the only outcome is to reward small numbers of teachers.

She proposes rewarding teachers equally with school - based bonuses, a nonstarter with Rhee, who is zealous about getting rid of those she calls «bad teachers.»

First, he begins in the right place: rewarding teachers for performance and modifying the current teaching incentive structure to pay teachers more for taking on the most challenging assignments.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

The salary schedule rewarded teachers for investing their time and personal funds in further education, and it ended the longstanding practice of paying men more than women and white teachers more than minorities.

They also rely on various versions of merit pay, usually rewarding some teachers for subject specialization and other talents in order to retain valued teachers and to provide incentives for improvement.

That would require teachers to show some amount of commitment to the profession, and it would reward teachers for getting through the most challenging early years.

Most districts reward teachers for their years of experience, advanced degrees, and in some cases special credentials such as a certificate from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

An evidence - based salary schedule would directly reward teachers when they demonstrate evidence of greater effectiveness.

Taxpayers nationwide pay billions of dollars each year in salary premiums to reward teachers for credentials of highly questionable value.

Video: Robert Costrell talks with Education Next about the ways that teacher pension plans punish short - term and mobile teachers and reward teachers who spend their entire career teaching in one state.

Money currently spent on rewarding teachers for valueless credentials could be used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal espoused by nearly all interested parties, from education reformers to teachers unions.

The «senior career teacher» program, as it is known, rewards teachers who have a master's degree, 60 additional college credits, 10 years» teaching experience, and dual certification.

It simply asks officials in participating countries whether the base salary for public - school teachers could be adjusted to reward teachers who had an «outstanding performance in teaching.»

Despite some success in rewarding teachers for producing better student outcomes, the career ladder was a target of the same criticisms that challenge virtually all attempts to tinker with systems of teachers» compensation.

However, we must be careful not to penalize those of us working with the highest - needs student populations, and we recommend using a two - step value - added model in order to ensure that there are no incentives against teaching at - risk students, while identifying and rewarding those teachers that are most successful with such students.

In March 2004, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association approved a plan that would replace the current lockstep salary structure with a new salary schedule that rewards teachers who advance their teaching knowledge and skills in the subjects they teach, take on additional professional responsibilities, take on the toughest school assignments, and produce results.

Overall, our results suggest that Tennessee's Career Ladder Evaluation System was at least partially successful at rewarding teachers who were relatively effective at promoting student achievement.

It urged the nation to get serious about teacher standards, reinvent teacher preparation and professional development, put qualified teachers in every classroom, encourage and reward teacher knowledge and skill, and create schools organized for student and teacher success.

There are isolated examples of school districts that reward teachers for high performance.

• Reward teachers for higher performance.

Still, that's a different issue than rewarding teachers for student performance, she says.

School boards should encourage parent associations to reward teachers at the end of term by collectively coming together and putting money towards a voucher or gift card.

The union is also calling for pay levels which remain competitive in the longer term with other professions and reward teachers fairly; a common pay increase for all teachers, recognising that different pay awards for different groups are ineffective and demotivating; and additional government funding for all schools to help them implement the award.

Other districts have used Act 10's tools to subvert old tenure practices and reward teachers based on their effectiveness in the classroom.

EdComs Teachers is an online community that rewards teachers for their contributions, insight and experience, and its team will be on stand M70.

Worse, the board actually rewards teachers for being good at the opposite of what most parents think teachers should excel at.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

By contrast, many school districts» incentive pay systems reward teachers for out - performing, rather than helping, their teammates.

For decades, public schools have rewarded teachers who earned advanced degrees with bigger paychecks.

One of the most path - breaking attempts to reward teacher performance, and thus attract and retain the best and brightest for our kids, is the DC Impact system, which was the culmination of a tough but brilliant consensus between union and DC leadership.