Sentences with phrase «which teachers affect»

Economists have developed an equation known as «value - added,» a formula that is supposed to control for student - specific variables and tease out the degree to which teachers affect student learning.

Finally, although the lion's share of teacher - quality research since the Coleman Report has focused on the connections between teacher quality and student test scores, new evidence is shining a light on the extent to which teachers affect other long - term non-test student outcomes as well.

Not exact matches

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

«It is disgraceful that the government is pressing ahead with its reforms which will affect teachers» pensions.

«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

On National Stress Awareness Day the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union is calling on Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to take seriously the high levels of stress teachers face and commit to reducing workload which is affecting their mental health.

«It is disgraceful that the Government is pressing ahead with its reforms which will affect teachers» pensions.

A recent study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine suggests that teacher burnout is directly associated with increased stress levels in students, which affects performance and quality of life in schools for all.

Teachers will find Gathering Blue full of material for discussion, including the way in which events of the past shape the future, the role of the artist in society, and ways in which the conflict between predestination and self - determination affect future events.

Although we were not able to look at the ways in which all of these factors affect teachers» decisions with respect to their employment situation, we were able to examine directly the impact of salary and certain working conditions.

Since all three factors help in attracting and retaining teachers, it becomes difficult to calculate the degree to which each factor separately affects a teacher's decision to return to that school the following year.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

The head's union maintains it «strongly opposes» the government's proposed limit as the move would «hamper recruitment» and worsen the present teacher shortage which is «one of the most significant issues affecting schools and their communities».

And again, there's plenty of very clear research that effective and positive teachers follow up with students one - to - one away from their audience, where they're able to have those behaviour conversations respectfully about the way in which that student has affected the rights of others in the room.

Tell us about that project, which looked at how new instructional technology affects teachers» productivity.

The policy, which will initially affect more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students, was unveiled last month and aims to integrate technology into the college curriculum as well as the profession as a whole, said Lawrence Abraham, an associate dean for teacher education.

We also investigate one widely discussed mechanism through which principals affect student achievement: the management of teacher transitions.

Behavioural impacts cause teachers to be more prone to procrastination and mood swings, which may affect their teaching ability.

Those two words could just as easily describe the author's thoughtful affect on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers or the degree to which his new book, Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students write.

Other policies include introducing free school meals for all primary school children; ending the public sector pay cap, which affects teachers; giving teachers «more direct involvement» in the curriculum; and extending school - based counselling to all schools.

Another issue which has come to the fore with teachers but also affects Principals is how best to use performance bonuses.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Every single MP in England has reason to be worried about our latest analysis which shows how every constituency will be adversely affected by the Government's recently - announced funding proposals.

Such a solitary yet fundamental position can be vulnerable to a narrowing of perspective and overwhelming stress, which can affect teacher and student growth.

The exclusion of creative subjects from the EBacc remit; subject silos; out - dated subject orthodoxies; teacher shortages and financial and academic pressures on schools weighed down by accountability measures are creating a perfect storm in which students will be those affected in the short term and society in the long term.

I did, however, find a surprising difference in the way in which a teacher's education background affects math learning, depending on the presence of a pay - for - performance system.

Big ideas and well - backed programs end up affecting instruction barely at all, particularly the teacher - centered approach, which Cuban singles out as especially hard to dislodge (though he holds back from insisting on child - centered tactics as clearly superior).

Preparing completers who affect P — 12 student learning positively and increasing teacher retention are key criteria by which all programs should be measured and held accountable.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has warned that schools must do more to stop sexist bullying, which can affect girls» subject choices and disrupt their confidence.

Fatigue in particular is incredibly detrimental to a teacher's ability to carry out their work effectively, which in turn negatively affects the quality of their teaching.

We analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

For NBCTs to affect the greater populace of teachers and students, their expertise must be shared, which is not easily accomplished in the typical milieu of schools, where teachers usually work as isolated solo practitioners.

James Fiford, Education and Electoral Inclusion Officer at the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), notes that teachers are often time poor, which can affect their ability to plan comprehensive units of work.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

Teachers play multiple roles which affect a variety of student outcomes and our measures need to reflect these multiple roles.

«It's surprising that the court, which used its bully pulpit when it came to criticizing teacher protections, did not spend one second discussing funding inequities, school segregation, high poverty or any other out - of - school or in - school factors that are proven to affect student achievement and our children.

Citing multiple studies by reputable scholars, it reports that schools with large numbers of minority students tend to employ less - experienced and less - effective teachers, which adversely affects student achievement.

It's to do with the teacher's professional discretion and crucially to do with their relationship with the students — in that if you have an active and productive relationship with the student then that's going to affect the way in which you intervene and the timing in which you intervene.

The study distinguishes the persistent effects that teachers have in their own subject — English teachers on students» later English test performance and math teachers on students» later math test performance — from cross-subject effects in which English teachers in one year can affect math performance in subsequent years and math teachers in one year can affect math performance in a subsequent year.

In this study, we analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

But once she began working as a middle school teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teacher.

However, little work assesses the extent to which differences in the neighborhoods in which schools are located either affect teacher recruitment and retention or explain the observed relationship between school characteristics and teachers» career choices.

In an effort to give more control to local school districts, the state Legislature passed sweeping changes to public education, many of which affected teachers directly.

As a seasoned teacher I have a bag of tricks that I use to motivate and engage my students, which also helps with setting the right tone for the classroom and regulating student behavior, which ultimately affects student learning.

Failure to produce an appropriate evaluation system may only increase teacher and principal dissatisfaction, thus, giving one reason to leave the profession, which in turn affect the academic improvements of marginalized students.

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

While we do not, in this section, look for a relationship between district practices and student learning, we have already established that instructional leadership by principals has an impact on teachers «classroom practices, which, in turn, affect student learning.

But there is no universal agreement on which formula can most accurately isolate a teacher's influence from other factors that affect student learning — and different formulas produce different results.

Pensions affect real people, and our work here at TeacherPensions.org attempts to explain the ways in which complicated pension issues trickle down and affect the lives of millions of teachers.

The teacher - evaluation overhaul — which Mr. Reinhard said will affect districts regardless of whether they sign on to the Race to the Top plan — is a key reason that Montgomery County Superintendent Jerry Weast said he would not endorse the application.

We will examine the Friedrichs and Bain lawsuits which could fundamentally alter the state of education nationwide, affect teacher freedom, and substantially change the political landscape in California.