Sentences with phrase «very effective teacher»

In 1992, an economist called Eric Hanushek reached a remarkable conclusion by analysing decades of data on teacher effectiveness: a student in the class of a very ineffective teacher — one ranked in the bottom 5 % — will learn, on average, half a year's worth of material in one school year, whereas if she was in the class of a very effective teacher — in the top 5 % — she would learn a year and a half's worth of material.

The Chetty study shows that over a ten year period, the payoff for the students of a very effective teacher amounts to a total of $ 2.5 million.

«Ms. Russ is a very effective teacher, and if we put in place a better teacher evaluation system, teachers like Ms. Russ would be labeled very effective and benefit from the new system.»

The natural consequence that follows can be a very effective teacher.

A Sutton Trust review found that over a school year, poorer pupils gain 1.5 years» worth of learning with very effective teachers, compared with 0.5 years with poorly performing teachers.

The result is this toolbox for attracting, retaining, and increasing the number of very effective teachers in our district.

«Value added» scores sometimes label very effective teachers as ineffective, and vice versa.

Not exact matches

«They've made it very difficult for teacher to get in the «highly effective» or «effective» rating, that's the problem,» Rumore said.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

Advanced Vikasa Yoga Training is a 6 week intensive immersion, that stands out with a very strong faculty of 4 teachers (Theory & Practice, Anatomy, Philosophy), safe and effective method, an absolutely mind - blowing exotic location and great food.

I've sung yoga's praises for quite some time now, and today I'm teaming up with one of my favorite yoga instructors and my personal teacher, Barefoot Studio owner Breezy Osborne to guide you through three very simple and effective yoga poses to open our hips and our hearts.

He is not only very well trained and educated, but also an effective teacher.

In my teaching it's been very effective in strengthening students» lower backs, but every teacher decides for himself, or course.

Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.

This can be a very effective strategy to reduce teacher temptation to inflict collective punishment on a class, enhance the likelihood of a class with a sub being somewhat productive, and dramatically reduce stress for the sub.

And again, there's plenty of very clear research that effective and positive teachers follow up with students one - to - one away from their audience, where they're able to have those behaviour conversations respectfully about the way in which that student has affected the rights of others in the room.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

Thus, while problem - solving activities may be very effective if implemented in the correct way, simply inducing the average teacher employed today to shift time in class from lecture style presentations to problem solving, without concern for how this is implemented, contains little potential to increase student achievement.

Very often ICT managers were digitally skilled but lacked training in effective listening and mediation for example, while front line teachers had effective listening skills but might lack the digital skills to deal with a cyberbullying or threatening case.

But I think that there are good resources out there, such as Khan Academy, that maybe a teacher didn't build but that have proven to be very effective in supporting students.

Because an accountability test that supports teaching is focused on only a very limited number of challenging curricular aims, a student's mastery of each subject can be meaningfully measured, letting teachers determine how effective their instruction has been.

Thus, we have already tested it in more than 45 schools in Spain, with very good results from the point of view of usability and opinion of the teachers and students, who say that these games are useful and effective in reinforcing what they are learning in class, and students are having a great time, that is, that when it comes the time when they are told «and now let's play Little», they think it's great because they remember it as something playful in the process of classroom learning.»

«Extensive research shows that... valid and reliable measures of teacher effectiveness,» have yet to be generated, she says, blithely putting on ignore important work by Thomas Kane, Eric Hanushek, and Raj Chetty and his colleagues, which shows that students learn in any given year somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of a standard deviation more if they have an especially effective teacher rather than a very ineffective one.

In short, it appears that the career ladder simply was not very effective at distinguishing superior or outstanding math teachers from those who were merely competent.

In Pasco, where very few teachers received the highest rating, 94 percent of teachers received the next - best rating of «Effective» — they were considered good, but not amazing.

Edudemic reports that 67 % of teachers believe video lessons are very effective at educating students.

The ETS is very upfront about the issues surrounding the use of teacher - licensure tests and entry tests as a measure of teacher quality, but it also points out that doing so does make sense, because using this kind of test can show that, as it says, «an individual has acquired a level of knowledge that is acceptable for licensing a beginning teacher, and that teachers without this knowledge are unlikely to become effective teachers.»

But even after many years of teaching, I still think effective teachers have a very clear sense of purpose and map the terrain of how they think the conversation should go, or could go...»

So, we decided to take our information and provide the teachers with the transcript and a dashboard of some very basic effective teaching mechanisms.

Indeed, the resources platform has been shown to be very effective at saving teachers time and helping them improve their classes by benefiting from the collective knowledge of the global teaching community.

With teachers spending on average seven to eight hours a week preparing their lessons, sharing resources is proving very effective at saving time and improving classes, writes Brigitte Ricou - Bellan, managing director of digital at TES Global

As teachers, we enjoy these processes as they require us to be very involved in the lives of our students, as well as explicitly model for them how effective communication can overcome significant hurdles in group work.

With teachers spending on average seven to eight hours a week preparing their lessons, sharing resources is proving very effective at saving time and improving classes

Collaboration is also very effective when it comes to effective CPD, so teachers should be given the opportunity to engage in team - working activities, both during and after training, to test ideas from different perspectives, develop new ideas and inclusive practices, and as a method of providing a professional support network.

Some teachers say it's the new frontier in learning and one that has proven very effective, while others have tried it and discarded the technique.

BL: Teachers who were seeing themselves as effective, were very aware that at the core of effective teaching practice was placing emphasis on developing positive relationships that demonstrated their beliefs in students.

Given the pedagogical emphasis on the use of problem - solving activities, it seems unlikely that the very best teachers would be using the less - effective teaching style (the only alternative explanation for our finding).

Our goal is to develop multiple measures of effective teaching that teachers design and endorse, that unions agree are fair, that don't cost very much, and that help all teachers improve.

A comprehensive survey of 10,000 teachers from around the country showed that when teachers are asked for their honest, professional opinions, overwhelming majorities agree that «engaged and effective» teachers are very important for student learning and that student achievement is the most important measure of their performance.

Moreover, the system is helping to retain the very best teachers: 92 percent of teachers rated «highly effective» stay in DCPS (compared to 59 percent of those rated minimally effective).

Every year colleges of education train thousands of teachers and send them into classrooms with very little understanding of whether that training was effective and what sort of achievement results these teachers will produce.

The EEP has called for an effective teacher for every child (paying teachers as professionals, giving them the tools and training to do their work effectively, and making tough decisions about ineffective teachers); empowering parents by allowing them to choose the best schools for their children; holding grown - ups at all levels accountable for the education of our children; and, very important, having enough strength in our convictions to stand up to anyone who seeks to preserve a failed system.

Even so, the teachers in the most effective schools were very aware of the need to make sure that the groups were flexible, that students moved to another group when their performance (as measured by their internal school - based monitoring system) merited movement.

Gates: Good research shows that the very best thing you can do for students is having an effective teacher in the front of a classroom.

«The proposed funding cut raises a very serious question: is investing in teacher development programs worth it and do we know how to make those investments effective?»

«We also think that Multiple Intelligences will provide the teachers with a very effective lens by which they can work with the children and how they organize their classrooms,» added Ms. Julie Viens, Managing Partner of MI Institute.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit effective new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

This false dichotomy obscures the more fundamental reality which is that there are very few completely ineffective teachers and conversely very few completely effective teachers.

And we can not even begin to question the dedication of teachers and the obscene amount of hours worked in an academic year, I'm no mathematician but just a quick calculation would indicate the average teacher works 60 hours per week, based upon this very broad assumption it's possible to suggest the average teacher works approximately 2000 + hours during an academic year, so it does beg the question, considering the Maxwell Curve; How much more effective and «healthy» would the teaching profession become if the principle of «less is more» underpinned it's mantra?

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.