These results suggest either that the academic considerations parents value are better captured by principal ratings or that parents have difficulty observing how much
value a teacher adds to reading and math test scores.
Then suppose that they do
not value teachers of high quality, perhaps because they make other teachers look bad in comparison.
As a teacher at a school that
values teacher leadership through formal team leader roles, I will work to strengthen collaboration among our team leaders.
Principals value teachers who learn new teaching techniques, keep current on technology changes, continue their university coursework, and develop better communication skills.
«Plenty of folks talk
about valuing teachers by paying them more, but the data here are crystal clear: Teachers are getting hosed,» said EdChoice President and CEO Robert Enlow.
Among other things, they found teachers tend to be more satisfied with their jobs if they perceive that their principal clearly communicates expectations and vision, discusses instructional practice with teachers, and
highly values teacher input.
Brandon Wiley, Director of Asia Society's ISSN, blogs from Helsinki about the differences in how Finland and the
U.S. value their teachers.
In wealthier schools the results are reversed: parents
most value a teacher's ability to keep students happy.
As well as helping to keep experienced and
valued teachers working in our schools, this pilot will help make sure teaching remains attractive to the next generation and regarded as a profession that is flexible to the demands of the modern world.»
But David Bomberg emerges as a
deeply valued teacher at Borough polytechnic, whose students inherited his convictions about the uncompromising effort that painting requires.
The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that
values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «The countries which give their children the best education in the world are those
which value their teachers most highly and where the profession attracts the brightest graduates.
The transparency is no accident; administrators here
value teacher learning as highly as student learning — so highly, in fact, that High Tech High has started its own graduate school of education — and they want students to see that.
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.
Moreover, the Akatu's education
program values the teacher as a leading agent of social transformation through education of children and adolescents through the transmission of new values, new concepts and new practices where the school environment acts as a space host of this process.
Interestingly, the students in our study emphasized that they
still valued teacher guidance and information «delivery».
Obama and [vice presidential candidate] Joe
Biden value teachers and the central role that they play in education.
We should
value teachers for their actual effectiveness in the classroom, not their paper qualifications.»
Like many districts, Shelby County Schools
values teacher collaboration and shared leadership, but they also know schools need support to achieve those conditions.
MPA received funding to provide teachers with materials and supply budgets to cover «the little things» — markers, paper, binder clips, as well as books, equipment for science experiments, and journals — in order to design quality daily lessons for students,
while valuing teachers as professionals by providing needed classroom supplies and materials.
With a graduate - level teaching degree and licensure from UNC, you'll be a highly -
valued teacher candidate — UNC is the premier teacher preparation university in Colorado.
Other empirical works (Darling Hammond, 2004) have shown how
effective valuing teacher quality is when implemented in America.
Tucson Values Teachers honored Desert View Drama Teacher Ms. Ericka Quintero - Heras as one of its Teachers of the Year.
Proactively gather this information by developing rapport
with valued teacher / studio customers, and inquiring into teacher / studio preferences.
Further, the school leaders hired me, in part, because they saw and
valued my teacher research perspective, and hoped I would be able to bring it to their newly forming school community.
If she was serious
about valuing teachers she wouldn't have threatened to sack us for achieving an unrealistic target just the week before.»
Wiley, Director of Asia Society's International Studies Schools Network, blogs from Helsinki about the differences in how Finland and the
U.S. value their teachers.
Filled with advice and practical methods for rethinking the practice of teaching, The Power of Teacher Teams highlights teacher collaboration that can help transform the culture of schools into communities of learning that foster and
value teacher leadership.
As well as helping to keep experienced and
valued teachers working in our schools, this pilot will make sure teaching remains attractive to the next generation and regarded as a profession that is flexible to the demands of the modern world.»
I
deeply value their teachers» perspective on how they're progressing academically and in other ways, but I also want a more objective gauge of whether they're on grade level in math, reading, and writing.
«I was so inspired by the company at the outset, excited to be in a private organization that truly
valued teachers as 21st century knowledge workers.
«The people who are making decisions in the legislature have made it clear they do
n't value teachers and have made a situation where many people just like me — who are seasoned, quality teachers — leave.»