Sentences with phrase «where teacher autonomy»

My teaching memoir, A Gift of Wonder shows professional freedom in teaching in an era where teacher autonomy is seriously threatened.

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On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

is a collection of ideas for so - called choice assignments, where students are given the autonomy to choose how to express their knowledge to their teacher.

«I think we give them more autonomy now and mostly they do meet our high expectations and students have really thrived in this environment because the teachers have been willing to allow students that choice and freedom of where and how to work,» Fuller shares.

In education's public sector, by contrast, the work is actually less interesting than it is in private schools, where teachers enjoy more control over the curriculum and more autonomy in the classroom.

«[It] has come to the point where the Common Core is overstepping individual and local decision - making and taking away teacher autonomy and classroom management... society is too rich in diversity for a centralized government to dictate teaching methods and techniques.»

We have a culture in schools of radical teacher autonomy where every teacher closes the door behind them and does whatever they want, and in too many cases that means that innovation happens in classrooms, but not in departments, not in grade level teams, and not in whole schools.

He says the tradeoff of a thinner union contract was worth it because it gives teachers «flexibility and autonomy where the district won't have much say.

As a parent I am most interested in a school environment where teachers have the autonomy to meet the specific needs of my children.

This resource features all the known K - 12 public schools where teachers have collective autonomy to make decisions influencing school success.

We need to imagine a profession built on the concept of collaborative autonomy, where teachers both teach and lead;

Both nationally and internationally, highly success schools exist where there is teacher autonomy.

The second one is concerns about the way accountability pressures in the No Child Left Behind era created pressure to teach to the test, lots of sanctions and the loss of autonomy in the classroom because quite often in central - city schools, where minority teachers are concentrated, they were moved to a scripted, teacher - proof curriculum, geared to test preparation, which is not what people go into teaching for.

Accordingly, «VAMs may have a modest place in teacher evaluation systems, but only as an adjunct to other information [and] used in a context where teachers and principals have genuine autonomy in their decisions about using and interpreting teacher effectiveness estimates [i.e. VAM output] in local contexts» (Haertel, 2013, p. 25).