Sentences with phrase «weak teachers in»

As a school administrator for more than 20 years now, I find it is easier to support and help the weaker teachers in my school improve than to try to weed them out and recruit new ones.

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In fact, while you give what amounts to a weak nod to a few «Jesus» things, the overall message is clear: you don't know what you believe yet you profess to be a Christian teacher / author, a teacher of the very Bible you claim to not grasp.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Everyone has a weak spot in their education, and it's up to the teachers and parents to pinpoint it while strengthening it at the same time.

She said even if they are not connected to the rankings of teachers and students, they are useful in finding out the weak points in instruction.

In addition to being academically weak, these teachers are dissatisfied with their job and will use more effort on searching for another job than on their actual teaching.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg warned that unless teacher seniority rules are changed so good, newer teachers could be retained over more senior but weaker instructors, the city could have to lay off nearly every teacher hired in the last five years.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

The only real weak link in the film, if you can get past the overly formulaic story, is Roselyn Sanchez as Peyton's ballet teacher and Joe's love interest.

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

Maria Bustillos objects to «firing «weaker» teachers for the sake of a barely perceptible increase in students» «lifetime income.

This is a subtle process in which the teacher pairs strong with weak, while avoiding best friends, worst enemies, and other combinations that just won't work.

If your child is weak in mathematics and strong in music, we usually get him a math teacher and not a piano teacher.

States where a greater fraction of teachers were covered by a union contract in 1987 were much less likely to pass a charter law in the 1990s, more likely to pass a law later (if at all), and more likely to pass a weaker law.

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

On Top of the News Cincinnati Public Schools to put top teachers at weak schools 06/14/10 Cincinnati.com Behind the Headline An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom Summer 2010 Education Next Cincinnati teachers who receive special training to serve as «lead teachers» will no longer be able to return to their home schools, but -LSB-...]

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.

DB plans remain the norm in the public education sector, however, despite the fiscal problems and the weak economic rationale for mobile professionals like teachers, many of whom move out of state or out of the profession and lose much of their accumulated benefits.

In addition to a north - south divide in school standards, in its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioIn addition to a north - south divide in school standards, in its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioin school standards, in its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioin its annual report, Ofsted noted: an improvement in primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioin primary schools, but with weaker secondaries, teacher shortages affecting many schools, a need for better leadership in underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioin underperforming schools, free school standards «broadly in line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioin line» with other schools, early education as «never stronger» and a decline in prison educatioin prison education.

[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 SchwartIn 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 Schwartin 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.

Everyone else, he adds with regret in his voice, was often left with a «lifetime of bad memories and demeaning experiences,» like being picked last for basketball scrimmage or being ridiculed by teachers and fellow students for being too weak or too slow.

Teaching children to read is central to a teacher's calling, but a large body of evidence shows that teachers get weak training in individual learning differences and in teaching reading to students with diverse backgrounds and abilities.

Parents and teachers complained — with some legitimacy — that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era set loose an avalanche of weak fill - in - the - bubble tests to assess student mastery of watered - down state academic standards.

We have been weak on building the capacity of teachers to meet the radical new, high standards that are now embodied in policy as well as aspirations.

Teachers and principals report that the stronger specialists help them analyze lesson plans and student work in the context of the new standards, while the weaker ones add little value at best and misinformation at worst.

In the past half century, this country has tolerated a weak licensing system for prospective teachers.

In contrast, the difficulty of firing civil - service teachers implies that they had weak extrinsic incentives and may be more sensitive to factors affecting their intrinsic motivation.

On the other hand, it is disappointing to observe that weak undergraduate teachers do not make up for their limitations in the classroom with disproportionate research excellence.

The Jacob - Lefgren study also shows that school principals are good at identifying the very best teachers as well as the weakest ones, exactly the capability needed to reward the topflyers while weeding out those who belong in another profession.

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

lack of personnel, lack of money, lack of time... students who have weak skills, teachers whose content and pedagogy need big shifts... administrators who are still learning what good common core instruction in their teachers should look like... you name it, this is a work in progress.

Using data captured by that state's intensive teacher evaluation protocol, researchers identified teachers who were weak in one (or more) of a constellation of assessed characteristics, and then matched them with teachers who were strong in corresponding areas.

Schools in poor neighborhoods have to pay as much for a teacher with weak preparation and no experience as schools in more upscale neighborhoods pay for a teacher with a doctorate and twenty years» experience.

They defend near - lifetime employment in the form of tenure and weak rules on evaluating teachers and principals that help keep Epps and other so - called educators in their jobs.

The abundance of stories from teachers about how motivated weak readers have become, and how much better those kids feel about themselves as a result of being included in reading the core texts and doing the work of the unit, is — without question — a summative finding of the Knowledge Matters School Tour.

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

All teachers have areas where they are strong and areas in which they are weak.

• Contrary to popular belief, the best teachers were not concentrated in schools in the most affluent neighborhoods, nor were the weakest instructors bunched in poor areas.

To say that TFA teachers do just about as well as other new teachers [in Houston], an extraordinary number of whom are extraordinarily underqualified, is a weak endorsement at best.»

In fact, the weak relationship between pupil - teacher ratio and school ratings is in the opposite of the expected direction: schools with larger classes receive somewhat higher grades, perhaps because effective schools attract more families to the neighborhooIn fact, the weak relationship between pupil - teacher ratio and school ratings is in the opposite of the expected direction: schools with larger classes receive somewhat higher grades, perhaps because effective schools attract more families to the neighborhooin the opposite of the expected direction: schools with larger classes receive somewhat higher grades, perhaps because effective schools attract more families to the neighborhood.

In this account, teacher unions seem both too powerful and too weak.

The report criticizes as «weak» the college education of prospective teachers and calls for major revisions in teacher - training programs, including a more rigorous general education, fewer education courses, revised financing formulas for colleges of education, and the development of alternative - certification plans.

And anecdotally, many teachers report that their students are weak in writing.

Goals around increasing the numbers of teachers in mathematics, science, special education and other hard - to - staff subjects were dismissed as weak because they included no steps for achieving them or benchmarks by which progress could be measured.

Given this weak statistical evidence of positive relationships between student achievement and district or school data use (as reflected in the principal and teacher survey items), we turned to our qualitative data, which provided the following insights:

On their own, teachers are in a weak and sometimes risky position with the incoming principal, to argue for continuing attention to the initiatives they have been working on with the outgoing principal and that are showing signs of progress.

Like North Carolina, those are right - to - work states with weak or no official teachers unions and Republican majorities in the statehouse.

Priorities there have shifted from providing assistance to schools with weak performance (primarily using retired professionals and teachers on loan) to targeting districts in distress.

But critics, including the Labour party and several teachers» unions, say are divisive, are likely to be centred disproportionately in middle - class neighbourhoods, to weaken already weak schools by attracting the best performing pupils, and will contribute to creating a two - tier system.