Sentences with phrase «uncertified teachers as»

Nationally, in 2013 — 14, on average, high - minority schools had four times as many uncertified teachers as low - minority schools.

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First, allowing uncertified individuals to become teachers does not mean that they must be viewed as «completed» professionals.

During a discussion on teacher quality, I cited my son's amazing math teacher, Iftimie Simion, as an example of how «uncertified» doesn't necessarily mean «unqualified.»

Yet as we embrace this piece of conventional wisdom, we must discard another: the widespread sentiment that there are large differences in effectiveness between traditionally certified teachers and uncertified or alternatively certified teachers.

Given the same initial effectiveness as a traditionally certified teacher, an uncertified third - year teacher's students would score 3 percent of a standard deviation higher, on average, in math.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

As Kopp and the other conference - goers learned about the crisis in teaching — 12 percent of first - year teachers across the country were uncertified, clustered in urban and rural areas — they started to discuss whether they should teach.

For instance, the authors refer to «the reform» case as though it were monolithic and uncontested, and cite, for example, arguments that certified teachers are no more effective than uncertified, with no indication that this finding is disputed in the literature.

Second, we didn't just compare TFA teachers with the Houston district's other new hires, a fair share of whom are uncertified and didn't attend a traditional education school (though not nearly as many as NCTAF claims).

Although this program does assign uncertified recruits as teachers of record, it also requires them to enroll concurrently in a master's degree program focusing on teaching and learning.

As a group, the studies tend to show that the students of uncertified TFA recruits underachieve when compared to students of new certified teachers, but this gap tends to disappear as the TFA recruits obtain professional knowledge through coursework and certificatioAs a group, the studies tend to show that the students of uncertified TFA recruits underachieve when compared to students of new certified teachers, but this gap tends to disappear as the TFA recruits obtain professional knowledge through coursework and certificatioas the TFA recruits obtain professional knowledge through coursework and certification.

Barth is the former Achievement First teacher and principal who allegedly worked illegally as an uncertified school teacher for six years.

That should read..., When the statistics in the report SHOWED that THEY were about as good as uncertified, untrained teachers...

Can we excuse the fact that kids are twice as likely to be assigned to inexperienced or uncertified teachers in schools with large enrollments of poor and minority students?

Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education teacher - education tracks.

Although most U.S. teachers are certified, for example, black students are more than four times as likely (PDF) as white students to attend schools where uncertified and unlicensed teachers are concentrated.

It also defines «experienced» as a teacher who has completed a charter school program approved by the SUNY Institute, an UNCERTIFIED teacher with three year of «satisfactory» experience, or a teacher who completes Teach For America or a similar program.

The program's goal was to respond to shortages in high - need areas by providing new ways to certify and recruit teachers from nontraditional pools such as paraprofessionals, uncertified teachers and returned Peace Corps volunteers.

This initial report on Wallace's Pathways to Teaching Careers initiative examines scholarships and other supports offered by 42 colleges and universities to help educate nontraditional candidates such as classroom aides, returning Peace Corps volunteers and uncertified teachers for careers in teaching.

Many are uncertified the first time they stand in front of students as the «teacher of record» — the only adult in the room.

If we don't value ourselves as dedicated, committed, well - educated professionals with deep subject matter expertise and rich pedagogical abilities and understandings, then why be surprised when the reformers suggest that veteran teachers can be replaced with uncertified, unqualified Teach for America recruits bolstered by a mere 5 week summer boot camp's worth of «training»?