Sentences with phrase «voluntary teacher participation»

Some program leaders recommended voluntary teacher participation in STEM PLCs in order to avoid these negative attitudes.

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Thus, having made participation in the career ladder voluntary for teachers in 1987, it was perhaps inevitable that the Tennessee legislature in 1997 voted to prevent additional teachers from entering the program and becoming eligible for merit bonuses.

But the supporters of Suburban Project Concern, which is well regarded because student and community participation is voluntary, say the board's decision made at the start of the school year was based not only on economic problems but on political pressure from the teachers» union.

While the majority of expert practitioners queried favored voluntary participation, there was general agreement that, at some point, all STEM teachers should become involved.

The generalizability of these findings is limited, as participation in the study was voluntary and therefore may not be representative of teacher leaders in general.

Regardless of whether participation of teachers is voluntary or mandatory, expert practitioners agreed that securing the buy - in of teachers is critical to the success of a PLC..

For this project, entire classrooms of students were selected based on (a) voluntary participation of teachers whose schools matched specific urban, suburban, or rural characteristics and were located in one of two major climate zones in the US, and (b) consent forms signed by the students» parents.

The teachers read aloud a prepared statement regarding student assent, informing students that participation was voluntary and responses confidential, and that there were no consequences for not participating.