Sentences with phrase «value teachers enough»

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Am no food nazi, but have been a teacher & a volunteer in the cafeteria long enough to see that carefully packed healthy lunches & even the minimally standard nutritive valued school lunch tray offerings are both NEGATED by kids «choosing» to fill up on the empty calories in shiny packages.

Tracey Mackin, Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy, adds: «Quite early on we latched onto the recognition that if any report is going to have any value for students across multiple year levels... it needs to be focused and specific enough to prompt questions, and to get the student talking to the teacher, or their parents, about what they might need to support their future [learning].

Start salaries high enough to attract the highest performers and reduce rewards for experience and for additional degrees and licenses, which have little demonstrable value on teacher effectiveness.

Joe Fatheree: Public opinion about the value of a teacher must change for the profession to be considered prestigious enough to lure our brightest minds into seriously considering education as a viable career.

If the program serves large enough numbers, value - added measures can distinguish between the improvement of teachers who participated in the program and those who did not.

And while I may disagree with some very smart people (and yes this makes me nervous) about how they should be used (I lean towards principals using them on a micro level, districts and beyond using them at the macro, ie not to evaluate individual teachers, but schools, districts, etc) I don't think anyone can disagree on this hard fact: not every K - 12 classroom will be tested every year in a way that is rigorous or consistent enough for value - added analysis.

The elements that make those schools successful can be replicated in others if we valued the teachers and leaders enough to build their capacity.

But he thinks that value - added is accurate enough to count between 33 % and 66 % of the teacher ratings.

I think the lure of learning about an approach to recruiting and developing teachers that has been successful in recruiting and developing starting NFL quarterbacks and multi-million-dollar year financial advisers (the good ones, who actually add value instead of merely run a shell game should be enough incentive for any educator who has take the time to read the posts here.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.

According to highly regarded testing experts, the evidence supporting the validity and reliability of value - added modeling results is weak enough that such results should not yet be used as the major measure of teacher effectiveness (Baker et al., 2010).

Clearly, value - added models do not account for every factor that might contribute to student learning; the question is whether they account for enough variables so that any factors not controlled by the model are not persistently associated with teachers.

And, sure enough, E4E's «declaration» includes language endorsing teacher assessments using value added modeling of standardized test scores, a method which is only slightly more reliable than throwing darts randomly at a wall.

While the move by the state's teachers» union turned enough heads to make it seem like a rare occurrence, both national and local teachers» unions have recently made endorsements and donations to some Republicans who speak and vote against their values.