Sentences with phrase «treating teachers as professionals»

As we continue the conversation about teacher quality, let's listen to the voices of educators who have a deep and nuanced understanding of teaching and learning: to Pam Grossman on the essential role of teacher retention in the development of teacher quality; to Linda Darling - Hammond on the importance of treating teachers as professionals, providing them with opportunities to learn with one another: what keeps good teachers in schools; to Anthony Cody on the complex nature of learning, and of the relationship between great teaching and dynamic learning.

Having a voice in decision making is certainly an important part of treating teachers as professionals, and it may even be true that teaching could be made more attractive with certain changes to the professional environment and professional preparation of teachers.

Leonie writes: Rather than follow blindly in the path of privatization and unleashed free - market competition that led to the collapse of our economy, it's time for Obama to start listening to the priorities of parents and treating teachers as professionals.

Can professional learning communities prosper without treating teachers as professionals?

Instead of rhetoric and hyperbole this is an honest and thoughtful system that treats teachers as the professionals they are and gives students the world - class public education they deserve,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

OECD's Lessons from PISA for the United States noted, and I want to quote this exactly: «The higher a country is on the world's education league tables, the more likely that country is working constructively with its unions and treating its teachers as professional partners.»

As Mike Soskil said, «Only when we treat teachers as the professionals that they are will we see the success that we desire in our schools.»

Only when we treat teachers as the professionals that they are, will we see the success that we desire in our schools.

Not exact matches

The National Council of Training and Leadership (NCTL), a body which deals with professional misconduct by teachers, heard how Wrigley treated Pupil A as a «teacher's pet», allowing the girl to collect spelling sheets and hand out books.

Thus, further research and education is needed to help more teachers and treating professionals to understand the symptoms of selective mutism, its association with social anxiety, and its treatment as an anxiety disorder.

Astorino wrote that if he is elected, he would treat teachers «with the respect you deserve as educational professionals.»

Charter school teachers need a union for the same reason as other teachers — to have a voice, to be able to advocate for students without fear of losing their jobs, and to be treated like the professionals they are.

The competitive model instead treats teachers as autonomous professionals able to make informed decisions about developing their skills and expertise.

Teachers who are treated as professionals by their principals are less likely to flee to another profession.

Its solution is found most often in creating a positive, supportive school culture and climate, where teachers are treated as professionals and given the opportunity to collaborate, problem solve, and get needed, reasonable supports in timely ways.

Teachers and administrators in the K - 12 sector have the status of professionals in many countries; but it is no secret that many teachers in the public sector in the United States are not treated as professionals and there are powerful pressures nowadays, both economic and political, to de-professionalize K - 12 edTeachers and administrators in the K - 12 sector have the status of professionals in many countries; but it is no secret that many teachers in the public sector in the United States are not treated as professionals and there are powerful pressures nowadays, both economic and political, to de-professionalize K - 12 edteachers in the public sector in the United States are not treated as professionals and there are powerful pressures nowadays, both economic and political, to de-professionalize K - 12 education.

If we want teachers to feel respected and motivated, we should treat them as true professionals.

In 2009, TNTP — formerly The New Teacher Project — came out with a report that found teachers were being treated as interchangeable parts or «widgets,» not professionals.

The teachers unions» raison d'être will suffer if teachers started being treated as professionals and not interchangeable widgets.

Teachers should be treated and paid like the professionals they are, not as line workers who all earn the same money for the same years of service.

Mrs Morgan said she would work with teachers» unions and representatives to discuss problems with workload - and to «treat them as the professionals they are».

When legislators are treating educators as non-entities, their professional training as of no import, and you report «Republicans ignored amendments and cut off public testimony to force a vote», one has to wonder what the real agenda is - to punish teachers for political leanings?

The study found that teachers with lower satisfaction were less likely to report that their job is secure or that their communities treat them as a professional.

«Short - term, replacement strategies,» the report says, «treat teachers like interchangeable, expendable parts rather than as young professionals meriting sustained investments in their development as part of a community of expert, experienced, teachers.»

· Although some methods of managing performance assessments can cost more then machine scoring of multiple choice tests (i.e. when such assessments are treated as traditional external tests and shipped out to separately paid scorers), the cost calculus changes when assessment is understood as part of teachers» work and learning — built into teaching and professional development time.

Beginning in 1996, the University of Calgary embarked on a course of action to discontinue its teacher education programs formed in the conventional model, and to replace them with a program in which the elements of the professional degree program are integrated, the learners are treated as professionals - in - the - making, the richness of pedagogical knowledge is acknowledged, and cooperative problem - solving is valued.

A new vision would treat teachers with respect as professionals.

We must respect our teachers and treat them as professionals, not micromanage them and impose top down standards.

Pre-service teachers are offered places as interns and are treated as members of staff, expected to learn from and contribute to a dynamic professional learning culture.

They also note that California has treated the transition as a district - level issue, with the state Department of Education reviewing instructional materials and providing a professional library of resources that can be downloaded by teachers.

CTA President Eric Heins claims, «Teachers would stay longer if they were treated as the professionals they are — treated with respect and given a voice.»

Independent educator associations are dedicated to putting students first, to treating educators as the professionals, and to providing teachers a choice in professional associations.

We believe teachers deserve to be treated as professionals and supported in all their important work.

And for good reason: Most teachers want to be treated as the professionals that they are.

It may seem obvious to many that teachers should be treated as professionals — applying their knowledge, experience, and expertise to the complex work of instruction — but the culture and traditions of schools have continually undermined efforts to give teaching a truly professional status.

Finally, the piece suggests making fundamental changes to schools so teachers are treated as true professionals.

But both are built on two basic concepts: that education is most effective when we treat students as individuals with different levels of readiness, learning profiles, and interests; and that teachers have a professional obligation to help all students succeed.

They also treat their teachers fairly and as professionals.

And in order for children to do all this, their teachers must be well trained, supported and developed throughout their careers; given true voice in their work; and treated as professionals.