Sentences with phrase «uses teacher panels»

Poway Unified also uses teacher panels to evaluate probationary teachers.

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's antenatal teachers» panel and sits on local and regional hospital steering groups to represent the voices of women and families using the maternity services

However, the BBC claims that the government's own drugs information panel has expressed concern about the use of drug testing in schools, citing Vivienne Edwards from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs as warning that such tests can undermine pupil - teacher relationships and should not be used a result of «complex» technical and ethical issues surrounding the issue.

The draft also includes a space for the task force to weigh in on the impact of student test scores on teacher evaluations, and the panel will likely use that space to recommend up to a four - year moratorium, according to a source familiar with the task force's plans.

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...

A panel of 16 experts in the field reviewed materials from 165 libraries, which were nominated in 14 program areas, including services to special populations, instruction in literacy, innovative uses of technology, and models for joint library - teacher involvement in student learning.

In physics class, a teacher had the students do a feasibility study to see how much energy the greenhouse used, and whether the solar panels produced enough energy to meet the needs of the space.

Our annual «Impact of New Technologies» survey into the views of English Maintained Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2011/12.

This will allow more effective wireless streaming and interaction to the panels from teacher and student devices, irrespective of the platform they're using.

«I saw an answer to the problem many of the teachers were experiencing with screen lag and interference from clothing when using infrared based panels.»

Cancer Research UK used a panel of 6 primary teachers to verify the materials, as well as the science expertise of its health information team.

There are educational advantages too, with teachers using the solar panels to spur interest in science and technology or to inspire wider environmental activities such as eco-clubs.

The second practitioner panel featured two rounds, where panelists reflected and built on ideas elicited during the first practitioner panel and offered new insights around the relationships between teacher leader selection, preparation and practice and combinations of strategies used to support instructional improvement.

The panel recommended that «research be conducted on the use of full - time mathematics teachers in elementary schools.

Many schools have hired math specialists to make up for teachers» shortfalls, according to a 2008 report by the National Mathematics Advisory Panel — although the panel «found no high - quality research showing that the use of any of these types of math specialist teachers improves students» learning.&rPanel — although the panel «found no high - quality research showing that the use of any of these types of math specialist teachers improves students» learning.&rpanel «found no high - quality research showing that the use of any of these types of math specialist teachers improves students» learning.»

San Jose's Teacher Quality Panels are based on Peer Assistance and Review programs that some districts use to mentor tenured teachers facing unsatisfactory reviews.

As a part of this work, Carnegie enlisted a panel of distinguished scholars to address key questions and challenges that the developers of teacher evaluation systems face in designing and implementing systems that use value - added measures of teacher performance.

As the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Blue Ribbon Panel noted, «This demanding, clinically based approach will create varied and extensive opportunities for candidates to connect what they learn with the challenge of using it, while under the expert tutelage of skilled clinical educators.»

The skills and teacher strategies used in RTL reflect the latest recommendations from The National Reading Panel's 2003 publication, «Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence - Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its implications for Reading Instruction.

Key features of these systems include not only the instruments used for evaluation but also the expertise of the consulting teachers or mentors — skilled teachers in the same subject areas and school levels who have released time to serve as mentors to support their fellow teachers — and the system of due process and review that involve a panel of both teachers and administrators in making recommendations about personnel decisions based on the evidence presented to them from the evaluations.

Findings drawn from the American Teacher Panel show that while a majority of U.S. mathematics and English language arts teachers support the use of state standards in instruction, a majority do not support the use of current state tests to measure mastery of those standards.

Each panel compares the rating of teachers using a value - added model with prior test scores and student covariates to placements from another model: (1) a value - added model that includes only a prior test score (Panels A and D); (2) the SGP model (Panels B and E); and (3) a value - added model that makes within - school comparisons (Panels C and F).

Assuming that participation and engagement in online CKB activities produces learning and that online learning designs are enhanced through teachers and designers consciously basing their instructional designs on learning theory (through the use of PANEL) and intercultural perspectives, the results from this experiment are overall positive.

Using panel data from North Carolina, we exploit the state's unique system of financing its local public schools to identify the causal effects of teacher assistants and other staff on student test scores in math and reading and other outcomes.

We use panel data in Washington State to study the extent to which teacher assignments between fourth and eighth grade explain gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students — as defined by underrepresented minority status (URM) and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL)-- in their eighth grade math test scores and high school course taking.

The authors estimate a structural model of teacher retirement using administrative panel data.

MSP program leaders, in selecting teacher leaders with exemplary classroom experience, explicitly identified characteristics of exemplary practice, and then used those descriptions to guide the selection panel's observation of the candidate, and in considering references written by principals or colleagues and the candidate's application essay or artifacts of practice.

The touch panel uses Electromagnetic Resonance Technology which allows students and teachers to freely take notes anywhere on the unit when necessary.

solo shows exhibiting emerging Chicago artists • studio classes with working and professional artists teachers and peers • open studio visits with international visiting artists exploring Chicago and building connections • experimental curators showing work that is conceptually distinctive or has a unique use of materials • artist talks and panels that explore relevant social issues • events that provide new connections for community and artists • youth and teens performing or exhibiting new work

In Fountain, a discipline hearing panel found a teacher guilty of «conduct unbecoming» for his careless and reckless use of a firearm, which he had fired it over the heads of his sons during an altercation.

Specifically, we used a four - phase iterative process to gather data from the perspectives of students, teachers, school counselors, school administrators, and members of an Expert Panel.