Sentences with phrase «weak teachers»

At those good schools, she said, the state teacher evaluation system could actually get in the way of getting rid of weak teachers.

The students with the most needs often get the least experienced or weakest teachers because the flow of quality and experience among teachers is toward higher performing students and schools.

They argue that annual testing is critical for tracking how effectively schools are educating poor and minority students and that evaluations based only on subjective criteria like observations typically fail to identify weak teachers.

Good principals are important to the teacher evaluation process, dismissing weak teachers and replacing them with strong teachers.

These are very weak teachers whose names their students may want to forget, but can't.

The strongest and weakest teachers worked as a team, and often met at the end of the day to discuss which lessons worked and which didn't.

Moreover, the lesson plans had the greatest impact in the hands of weaker teachers.

Backers of the test say eliminating it could put weak teachers in classrooms.

Now, it strikes me as ludicrous for the unions to sit quietly by and share the blame for timid, tepid leadership, or when unions passively take the blame for weak teachers when teacher preparation programs produce graduates of dubious merit.

The ATR exists because the UFT has fought to protect weak teachers from quality - based layoffs.

Do school board members need to peruse Education Next's reader - friendly version of this econometric study, then take appropriate steps to replace weak teachers with high performers?

«A teacher who focuses on important, demanding skills and knowledge that are not tested may be misidentified as ineffective, while a fairly weak teacher who narrows her focus to the state test may be erroneously praised as effective.»

Knowing who's doing a good job in the classroom and who isn't is important to remediating or removing weak teachers and rewarding high achievers.

For those who are committed to reforming public education from within and who are resistant to charter schools, vouchers, or tax credits, the challenge is to suggest a way forward when so much funding disappears into the central office, when funding itself is limited by our byzantine school - financing structures, and when it remains so difficult to replace weak teachers with stronger ones.

Our response has been to embrace a bureaucratic solution that handcuffs the capable and incapable alike and supposedly keeps weak teachers out of the classroom.

The District of Columbia's closely watched system for evaluating teachers and providing bonus pay appears to have motivated weak teachers to make improvements and spurred already - effective teachers to higher levels of performance, a new study concludes.

The absence of subject matter experts (as well as members of other professions, the educated public, and the state legislature) on review teams keeps anti-disciplinary and anti-instructional theories dominant in our education schools and helps them to avoid criticisms of academically weak teacher preparation programs.

By the spring thaw, his liberal side emerges from the frost (i.e.,same - sexmarriage, ending finger imaging, fracking limits, weak teacher evaluation disclosure, etc.).

Yes, weak teachers tend to stand out for many reasons, but that can not accurately be measured on a student standardized test.»

When she puts bad and weak teachers on notice, she doesn't realize that she's targeting a historic avenue of middle - class employment for African Americans in the city.

AUSL is not just firing weaker teachers and hiring better ones, we are investing in developing them — every teacher, every school, every year.

Now both sides seem earnest about finding better ways through evaluation to identify and retrain weak teachers.

Based on what we can infer from other research, weak teacher workforces often disproportionately harm disadvantaged student groups.

Louisiana officials requested the analysis more than a decade ago partly with the hope that it would weed out the state's weakest teacher training programs.

National leaders of teachers unions, long opposed to change, are willing to talk about once - taboo subjects such as making it easier to get weak teachers out of classrooms.

I just read an interesting article from Education Week, «Study: Give Weak Teachers Good Lesson Plans instead of Professional Development.»

It is understandable why federal, state, and local education policy makers may have concluded that academically weak teachers need to know more about the subject they teach and / or the way to teach those subjects and therefore have voted to spend a fortune on professional development.

But now, despite the traditionally weak teacher unions in Red States, things have gotten so bad in public education there that many thousands of teachers are striking back, so to speak, making heavy use of social media, among other tools.

And, increasingly, we're getting solid evidence of what reforms may help: teacher evaluations based on student performance, higher pay and prestige for good teachers, dismissals for weak teachers.

Still, it's possible that the D.C. district was correctly identifying weak teachers and replacing them with better ones, and that their superior teaching skills were the reason student test scores improved.

The District of Columbia's closely - watched system for evaluating teachers and providing bonus pay appears to have motivated weak teachers to make improvements, and to spur already - effective teachers to even higher levels of performance, a new study concludes.

We can estimate the rate of improvement that is attributable to experience (as opposed to the departure of weak teachers) by following individual teachers and measuring the change in their performance from one year to the next.

I thought he was a weak teacher at best, a heretical charlatan using the Gospel for his own personal gain (and a jet) at worst.

Weaker teacher - preparation programs would likely fall by the wayside.

However, the combination diminishes student learning, particularly for minorities and low income children, who are most likely to have weaker teachers.

But today the absence of a common core is a critical handicap, particularly for the neediest kids, weakest teachers, and least advantaged schools.

... Benefits were much larger for weaker teachers, suggesting that weaker teachers compensated for skill deficiencies by substituting the lessons for their own efforts.

While one teaching position disappears — and that should be the weakest teacher who goes — other jobs emerge, such as the monitor or combined monitor / tutor.

[iii] Experienced teachers with better track records find it easier to find jobs elsewhere and the weakest teachers accumulate in the employers of last resort — low - income schools and districts.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

Corps members come and go, but the school remains woefully the same (indeed, part of the reason for those life - skills and persistence lessons corps members now teach is to help students cope with a weak teacher they may be assigned the next year, or the year after that).

The downsides to looping are few but not insignificant: Parents worry about the prospect of a child drawing a weak teacher two years in a row.

For instance, one study of the 345,000 - student Miami - Dade County, Fla., school system finds that the most effective principals appear to be particularly adept at weeding out weak teachers and keeping strong ones.

Education leaders need to be able to identify the strongest teachers and the weakest teachers directly.

Systemic inequality is certainly a factor as well, given that children of color are more likely to attend schools with lower funding levels and weaker teachers.

But, the second thing we found was that the correlation between a teacher's submitted lesson and their unsubmitted lessons was very high - about.75, which is just saying that the best lessons from the best teachers are that much better than the best lessons from the weakest teachers.

Just 36 percent of them, according to Public Agenda, believe that their tougher scrutiny of weak teachers is leading to tenure denials and only 30 percent report that student achievement is being factored into their teacher evaluations.

The study finds that student achievement improved significantly, especially for the students who had the weakest teacher.

Rigid collective bargaining agreements create so many procedural hurdles that it is almost impossible to remove a weak teacher.

Then, once a district has made a decision to terminate, weak teachers are given four additional appeals, including to courts of law.