Sentences with phrase «which teacher promotions»

The administration's plan is to take the lessons learned from the pilots and translate them into a statewide system in 2012 - 2013, in which teacher promotions and retentions and maybe eventually pay will depend on their evaluations.

Not exact matches

Throughout the country, and with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (which requires research - based assessment), student performance on these tests has become the basis for such critical decisions as student promotion from one grade to the next, and compensation for teachers and administrators.

Heads of schools should also have more knowledge than central administrators about which teachers to hire and who deserves promotion or a raise in salary.

The government's trial of the scheme aiming to increase the number of BME headteachers was a success, with 30 schools allocated funding to spend on diversity leadership projects which are set to benefit 1,000 teachers — all of whom are predicted a promotion within 12 months.

He's aware, though, that he'll have a tough sell with teachers unions, which give lip service to more - stringent teacher evaluations but prefer existing pay and promotion schemes based on seniority — even though they often end up matching the least experienced teachers with the most challenging students.

High - Stakes Test: A standardized test in which the results are used to determine important issues such as grade promotion, graduation, school accreditation, or teacher performance.

Now, if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests — which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS — for such high - stakes purposes as student promotion and retention, graduation, and teacher evaluation, we'd really be getting somewhere.

The accompanying tests, which affect student promotion and graduation and teacher evaluations, guarantee the Common Core will govern every day of the school year.

The fact that law restricts the use of teacher recommendations to promotions only suggests an acknowledgement of the need for the recognition of soft skills, which objective measures would not pick up.

Also on her to - do list is the promotion of Professional Development Schools in which NIU teacher candidates play an integral role in student learning.

Interventions designed to promote social - emotional awareness and decrease discipline problems in elementary students result in reduced instances of office referrals, fewer whole - school discipline problems, increased teacher satisfaction in student behavior, and significantly improved reading and mathematics percentile rankings, all of which contribute to the promotion of positive school climate (Luiselli, Putnam, Handler, & Feinberg, 2005).