Sentences with phrase «weak teachers out»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Teacher - preparation programs neither screen out nor weed out weak candidates.

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 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.

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.

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.

No principal can improve opportunities for students without the authority to hire and retain good teachers and to weed out weak ones.

Statewide assessments across the US are essentially «final exam» tests to find out how much kids have learned, rather than diagnostic tests designed to help teachers teach [except in an after - the - fact way to perhaps adjust instructional practice for the next group of kids, a relatively weak form of diagnostic testing for individual teachers].

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.

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.

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.

There is wide agreement that that needs to change dramatically if there are going to be ways to move teachers toward better practices — or separate out the weakest performers fairly.

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).

According to «The Myth of Unions» Overprotection of Bad Teachers,» a well - designed study by Eunice S. Han, an economist at the University of Utah, school districts with strong unions actually do a better job of weeding out bad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weakTeachers,» a well - designed study by Eunice S. Han, an economist at the University of Utah, school districts with strong unions actually do a better job of weeding out bad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weakteachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak unions.

There will also be an attempt to filter out weaker candidates by only allowing teacher - training applicants to fail numeracy and literacy tests three times.

• Assist the teacher in classroom activities while catering for emotional, psychological, social and cognitive needs of physically or mentally disabled students • Provide one to one tutoring and reinforce daily lessons in small groups • Identify weak areas of students and develop individualized lesson plans accordingly • Supervise the children during play and lunchtime • Inculcate strong moral and social values among the students to make them responsible citizens • Facilitate the teacher in conducting various classroom activities • Maintain all teaching aids in an organized manner • Devise need - based AV aids to facilitate teaching process • Assess multiple instructional strategies for effectiveness and change the teaching methodology as per requirement • Carefully record and gauge each student's progress and discuss the same regularly with teachers and parents • Encourage students to participate in extracurricular activities and boost their confidence in all possible ways • Communicate home assignments clearly, mark homework and test papers • Assist students in completing classroom assignments • Maintain daily attendance and early departure records • Discuss individual cases of individual needs and interests with teachers and parents of the student • Develop and implement targeted instructional strategies to cater for particular needs of each student • Observe students» behavior at playtime and chalk out a behavioral intervention plan to address any inappropriate, violent or disruptive behavior • Operate adaptive technological equipment single - handedly • Maintain complete confidentiality of student data • Aid physical, speech and rehabilitative therapists in their sessions and encourage the student to cooperate with them