Sentences with phrase «used against teachers»

Indeed, without the requirement of an actual terrorist purpose, it can be used against teachers, activists, columnists, etc..

The state Assembly today unanimously passed a bill (Senate Bill 67) that would ensure that scores on the statewide Badger Exam given to public school children this spring aren't used against teachers or put on report cards measuring school performance.

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That was meant to address black lawmakers» concerns that teachers with guns might discriminate against black students in deciding when to use them.

It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but sacrificial offering of a poor widow.

The Bible presupposes a right and a wrong interpretation of Jesus» coming and the nature and character of God, as it uses strong language against false teachers who promote doctrines that undermine the gospel.

Rather, sit up straight, like your teachers used to tell you in school, with your back flush against the chair.

By the time the teacher at our hospital birth class announced that she wouldn't explain how to use formula because it was against hospital regulations, I was pretty fed up.

The GOP majority has been strongly supportive of the Endless Testing Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt out rates.

The NEC also used the occasion to kick against the call for autonomy of local government councils, stating that the ghost of the effects of primary schools left in the hands of the local governments in the past had continued to haunt the teachers, leading to its near - collapse in terms of personnel, funding and infrastructural development.

Dealbreaker.com reported Monday he's used such comparisons in the past — one of his previous Facebook posts in 2016 said that the teachers» union «has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination against people of color than the KKK.»

Labour has a new policy on free schools it wants to try out - for it, against building them just for middle classes and using untrained teachers.

will the states be able to pay police and service them is the question we should answer especially those agigating for state - police because some of these states can not pay teachers and LG employees nor to talk of police that they are going to use as political thugs against the oppositions.

She said her run against Cuomo would be built on a critique of his use of high - dollar campaign donations and his support for linking teacher performance evaluations to student test scores.

But on Monday, Cuomo used the veto to push back against the state's powerful teachers» union and call into question the accuracy of the new evaluation system.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Oxford Home Schooling, part of the Oxford Open Learning Trust, used data from Europe - wide reporting to investigate how the UK compares against three key areas of education: pupils per teacher, years spent in school and level of national investment in schools.

Although many parents and politicians argue passionately against mobile classrooms — the majority of which never move — teachers across the country seem much less perturbed by their use, and in many cases, actually prefer them.

However, teachers were reluctant to request professional development sessions, for fear that senior managers would view the appeal «as a sign of weakness» that could be «used against them».

In October, a Department for Education research report into teacher - performance pay reforms found that, in 98 per cent of schools, all pay progression is related to performance and that 69 per cent of schools use pupils» test attainment to measure a teacher's performance against «the expected national level».

In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called for tying teacher pay to performance, bringing up the state's standards, and urging state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.

Yet, in terms of formal educational credentials — the key variable that they use to benchmark teachers» wages against «comparable» workers — teacher quality has never been higher!

The monitoring of literacy and numeracy achievement against a set of absolute proficiency levels would require a shift in thinking on the part of students, teachers and parents who are used to interpreting test performances only in terms of year level expectations.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

The CTA has long fought against this data system: first by opposing any linkage between student and teacher data, and then (when it eventually lost that battle) by opposing the use of such data, even as just one factor, in evaluating, paying, or possibly dismissing teachers.

In fact, the requirement that teachers assess and grade all students (using «A to E» or equivalent) against year - level curriculum expectations is currently built into Commonwealth legislation.

· Members of the team analyse each other's individual class data and discuss and critique different writing strategies used by teachers in the team and evaluate them against good practice literature and school data.

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.

Although panels of scholars warned against using VAMS to make high - stakes decisions because of their statistical limitations (American Statistical Association, 2014; National Research Council & National Academy of Education, 2010), policymakers in many states and districts moved quickly to do just that, requiring that VAMS scores be used as a substantial component in teacher evaluation...

They are given transcripts of their lesson, which are coded against a rubric to produce a dashboard view of how they performed in certain key areas — such as time spent on teacher talk, the types of questioning used, and incidences of positive behaviour management — and a detailed feedback report.

In contrast, our recommendations are designed to support teachers to make reliable assessments of particular aspects of learning and achievement that can be compared across schools and used directly in the calculation of students» subject results and thus tertiary admissions ranks — without prior scaling against an external test or examination.

We've required teachers to assess and grade all students against these expectations using «A to E or equivalent».

«We are collecting evidence [against the teacher standards] as we go, and using the collection of evidence as another way to provide some structure to our mentoring conversations.

Teachers won't ask for help even when student formative data shows they need it if their request for help is misunderstood or even worse — used against them.

In some schools, teachers met in teams to review student work against standards, using their insights to select targets for instructional improvement.

Q: Will the use of Student Growth Percentiles cause students and / or teacher to «compete» against one another?

Obama's Education Department used its federal power to coerce states to adopt the Common Core State Standards, expand charter schools and use student test scores to evaluate teachers, an assessment method that experts warned against.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

Still others praised the study's design but pushed back against interpretations that teacher evaluations of the sort used in the District of Columbia will lead to widespread improvements in teaching quality.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

Making an issue of using test scores to evaluate teachers means taking on powerful teacher unions, pitting a core Democratic interest group against a major goal of the Obama administration.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

With a clear focus on homework from OFSTED: «Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring systems.

Students in the process of becoming a teacher in North Dakota should view this table that compares the average annual salaries of different teaching positions in North Dakota against the national average using information provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Weingarten said she does not want to use the word «strike,» but wants to use the strategy of recent teacher walkouts in Oklahoma and West Virginia as a model to fight against school - choice reforms.

Hoyt also cited a recent policy statement by the American Educational Research Association that cautions against using value - added data in teacher evaluations and for high - stakes purposes.

In the following post (which also appeared on Huffington Post), Weingarten comes out firmly against value - added methods of evaluating teachers, which basically use complicated formulas that use student standardized test scores to evaluate the «value» a teacher adds to a student's learning.

We caution, however, against using technology for technology's sake, and encourage faculty and preservice teachers to consider if the technology is allowing them to learn in a way they could not without the technology or if they are at least learning in a more meaningful way.

Researchers used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.

A teaching performance assessment (TPA) is a tool used to assess the practical skills and knowledge of pre-service teachers against the Graduate Teacher Standards in the final year of their initial teacher education pTeacher Standards in the final year of their initial teacher education pteacher education program.