Sentences with phrase «weak teachers on»

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.

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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.

On BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided by nunOn BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided by nunon February 5, Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided by nuns.

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.

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.

I refused to wear glasses and blamed it on «my glasses are old and they don't help me see anyway» excuse to my teachers, which was true as my eyes were just getting weaker and I needed a new glasses prescription.

Bridget Kudrle: «How is this study identifying «strong» and «weak» teachers, on the basis of which they draw their conclusions about future student outcomes?

Typical of these lesson plans, it is thin on substance, leaves the students to teach themselves about civil disobedience, and does not help teachers whose own knowledge of civil disobedience is weak.

Hanushek's key insight is that «we are seeing not a war on teachers, but a war on the blunt and detrimental policies of teachers unions,» especially when it come to purging classroom ranks of a smallish number of chronically weak instructors.

They can spend time effectively on learning, access online platforms for essay service and assignment help and work on his weak areas with expert guidance from scholars and 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-...]

There remains, as Klein is the first to remind us, vast work still to be done on raising teacher effectiveness, on improving school leadership, and on removing the blight posed by our weakest schools.

By testing students, releasing the results to the public, and attaching rewards and sometimes a few weak sanctions to those results, accountability reformers have attempted to tighten the screws on local school boards, administrators, and classroom teachers.

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.

While harsh on teacher unions, Brimelow makes excuses for journalists whose coverage of the unions is weak or limited: «On those rare occasions when reporters do cover the teacher unions, they find themselves overwhelmed by the arcane and incomprehensible.&raquon teacher unions, Brimelow makes excuses for journalists whose coverage of the unions is weak or limited: «On those rare occasions when reporters do cover the teacher unions, they find themselves overwhelmed by the arcane and incomprehensible.&raquOn those rare occasions when reporters do cover the teacher unions, they find themselves overwhelmed by the arcane and incomprehensible.»

The weakest support was for paying teachers more if their students demonstrate knowledge gains on state tests (63 percent support, 25 percent strongly).

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.

From this position, I can help the teacher capitalize on these abilities as we work to compensate for weaker areas.

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.

Florida's union also is considered weak because the state's Republican leadership has adopted laws — such as a new one on teacher merit pay — that run counter to what the association thinks is best.

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 progresOn 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 progreson with the outgoing principal and that are showing signs of progress.

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.

«Their weak - kneed response was to cancel classes rather than to ask teachers to take their political activities and do them on their own time or after the school year concludes,» said Stoops, a former teacher.

An AFT report «Passing on Failure» delineates several reasons for student failure: «immaturity, weak curriculum and instruction, excessive absenteeism, lack of effort, failure of teachers and administrators as well as parents to use practices that promote high achievement, and failure due to a combination of factors listed above.»

On balance, the evidence suggests, students benefit when collective bargaining rights for teachers are stronger, not weaker.

Following up on my most recent post about whether «The Test Matters,» a colleague of mine from the University of Southern California (USC)-- Morgan Polikoff whom I also referenced on this blog this past summer as per a study he and Andrew Porter (University of Pennsylvania) released about the «Surprisingly Weak» Correlations among VAMs and Other Teacher Quality Indicators» — wrote me an email.

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.

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

She offers seven strategies that teachers can use to involve students in the assessment process and ensure that students are the primary users of formative assessment information: (1) Provide a clear and understandable vision of the learning target; (2) Use examples of strong and weak work; (3) Offer regular descriptive feedback; (4) Teach students to self - assess and set goals; (5) Design lessons to focus on one aspect of quality at a time; (6) Teach students focused revision; and (7) Engage students in self - reflection and let them document and share their learning.

Bring in independent consultants, such as retired educators, to evaluate teachers at work and work with them to build on weak areas and exchange innovative ideas with other classrooms.

Schools where principals set high standards and involve teachers in decision making are seven times more likely to make substantial improvements in math than schools weak on such measures.

A closing thought on the moral imperative: as a society, if we only help the weakest teachers improve, we're not going to improve the average levels of achievement by enough to ensure our students can find work and thrive in the 21st Century.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

Wisconsin lost out in this year's «Race to the Top» competition for federal dollars largely because its proposals on teacher development were rated as weak.

To ensure that my students learn, I work closely with other teachers (in and out of my school district) who are getting the job done (students perform well on standardized assessments), I research constantly in areas I feel weakest, and I invest in my own professional development.

If a program's graduates post weak results, «it could be that they are doing a fabulous job but they are not selective enough in terms of who is admitted,» said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Weaker schools splashing the cash on sticking plaster services, while stronger schools lease out their best teachers to other schools — their own staff losing PPA time (and sanity) covering lessons for kids who won't sit exams this year (kick that can down the road).

First, changing classes and having multiple teachers with diverse expectations place a great deal of stress on already weak organizational systems.

It hinged on ranking kids, teachers, schools, and districts, then removing the weakest links.

If, as a teacher you can key into the student's strong points and work on the weak ones, it doesn't matter if you care or not.

Since the support of families is considered crucial to educational achievement, weak relationships between schools and parents in segregated minority environments highlight a critical disadvantage that racially and socioeconomically isolated schools must overcome, on top of a myriad of other well - documented deficits, including high teacher turnover.

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Although they've felt the effects of the weak economy, she says no teachers have been laid off, and that they've cut back on administrator salaries.

«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.»

Illinois, on the other hand, uses student and teacher data from the 5Essentials Survey to differentiate schools.65 A 10 - year Chicago study found that schools that were strong in at least three of the five survey elements — which include effective leaders, collaborative teachers, supportive environment, involved families, and ambitious instruction — were significantly more likely to improve student learning than schools that were weaker in these domains.66

There is only a moderate, and often weak, correlation between value - added calculations for the same teacher based on different tests.

- Data from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment shoes that, in a single year, students with the weakest 5 % of teachers made a half - year's worth of reading gains on standardized tests, while those with the top 5 % of teachers gained a year and a half.

[5] Associations in this range typically are considered weak: teachers with value - added in the top quartile on the state reading test would have about a 40 percent chance that their value - added on the alternative test would be below the 50th percentile.

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.

In other words, a strong correlation noted in just one group of teachers (i.e., teachers scoring the lowest on their value - added and observational indicators in this case) can be relatively stronger than the «weak» correlation observed on average or overall.