Sentences with phrase «variation leads teachers»

Individual school policies and practices are very different and such variation leads teachers to have very different experiences across schools.

Not exact matches

When small variations in student test scores result in failing ratings for teachers, and that can lead to automatic termination, it forces teachers to teach to the test, rather than teaching for learning.

The state department of education is seeking to establish teacher - preparation schools that are free from state regulations so long as they produce high - quality teachers — a variation on the concept that has led to the creation of more than 3,000 K - 12 charter schools in 41 states since 1992.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

It should come as no surprise that variation in the number of math courses taken by teachers in this group would not lead to different outcomes in student achievement.

The public attention to variations in teacher effectiveness led to an uproar — an uproar that helped focus the policy discussion and local bargaining.

Over the last decade, research in public education has led us to three conclusions about the teaching profession: teachers are the most important in - school factor in determining student achievement; there is wide variation in teacher effectiveness; and those differences really matter for kids.

Due to different decisions in state legislatures, pension rules vary from state - to - state, leading to different vesting periods, variation in teacher contribution rates, and differences in benefit quality.

Student attrition and teacher turnover at charters would also lead to greater variation between grades.

Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that teachers are not only widely varying in terms of their effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify teachers in terms of their variation in (in) effectiveness.