Sentences with phrase «which teachers had»

However, when they saw the positive feedback coming from classrooms in which teachers had showcased student work, many reaffirmed their decision to participate in PBL.

On a positive note, the one school that had made the most consistent gains in students» reading and writing growth was also the school in which teachers had made the most research - based shifts in the delivery of their classroom reading instruction.

Collection creation involved assembling individual SLL resources in a group, which reflected TCK as well as the opportunity for small group work, in which teachers had an opportunity to create collections.

Also, these were areas where there were «clear right or wrong answers» - unlike in the creative writing test, which teachers had complained was subjective and difficult to judge consistently.

The programme also exposes dishonest marking in secondary schools by highlighting several cases in which teachers had changed pupil assessments or coursework to artificially boost a school's performance.

The state's hard - and - fast seniority rule — last hired, first fired — provided Cleveland school officials with little wiggle room for deciding which teachers had to go.

As a guest in these classrooms, it was clear to me which teachers had thought through how space impacts the ease of these transitions.

«On average, teacher - family communication increased homework completion rates by 6 percentage points and decreased instances in which teachers had to redirect students» attention to the task at hand by 32 %.»

The students came up with many creative and useful ideas which the teachers had never thought of; and,

The students came up with many creative and useful ideas which the teachers had never thought of;

The results of the study were that «on average, teacher - family communication increased homework completion rates by 6 percentage points and decreased instances in which teachers had to redirect students» attention to the task at hand by 32 %.»

On average, teacher - family communication increased the odds that students completed their homework by 40 percent, decreased instances in which teachers had to redirect students» attention to the task at hand by 25 percent, and increased class participation rates by 15 percent.»

I stated my position on many of the philosophical problems to which my teachers had introduced me, for instance the question of internal and external relations; and I gave arguments for the positions.

During the High Court hearing, counsel Nick Armstrong told the judge it was the only occasion on which a teacher had been killed by a pupil in a British classroom and the family were anxious «that all the lessons that can be learned from this enormous tragedy are learned».

With the help of Challenge Success, JLS Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.

I also remember a Math class in which the teacher would spank our hands with a ruler if we got a wrong answer.

Instead, the centerpiece of the teachers union's interaction with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is paid parental leave, in which teachers would be guaranteed pay for a certain number of days each year if they have to take time off to care for children.

It continues: «Given the profound positive and negative impacts which teachers have on pupil performance, we are concerned that the pay system continues to reward low performers at the same levels as their more successful peers.»

The proposals include explicitly setting out in Ofqual rules steps awarding organisations must take to help protect the integrity of the assessments to which teachers have contributed.

Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Ingersoll, among others, shows that general working conditions, the degree to which teachers have classroom autonomy, and other non-monetary factors are at least as important a consideration as salaries in explaining teacher attrition.

Led by Maddie Fennell, Nebraska's 2007 State Teacher of the Year, the commission issued a report in 2011 that sketched out a vision of the profession in which teachers have a say in decisions about hiring, evaluating, promoting, and dismissing their fellow teachers.

But then the Georgia State Board of Education balked, unwilling to back Leeper's school governance experiment, in which the teachers would be organized like attorneys in a law office's partnership, and have the power to hire and fire teachers as well as the principal.

It is well known, for instance, that preschool classrooms in which teachers have bachelor's or higher degrees produce better outcomes for children than classrooms in which teachers have less education.

Recent studies have used correlational methods that compare outcomes for children in child - centered and content - centered classrooms in which teachers have self - selected their instructional approaches and children's parents have self - selected their preschools.

The material should lead the students to state the aim of that day's lesson themselves, an interesting reversal of those dinosaur days in which the teacher would write the aim on the blackboard.

Elementary classrooms in which teachers have already used and are comfortable with traditional learning stations.

The judges said: «Meets a real need in bringing together a wide range of resources which teachers would have difficulty in finding for themselves.

If there are specific things about which the teacher would like to speak with the parents, they can make a separate appointment or discuss over phone or email.

We have seen other cases in which teachers have been reluctant to test new practices because of the possibility of an impact on their performance reviews; addressing this would be beneficial.

There is a comfort that comes with a well - designed and predictable lecture at a chalkboard about an idea for which a teacher has personal expertise and passion.

They can also see how many scheduled observations are on the calendar and which teachers have not yet been observed.

School leaders can see how many scheduled observations are on the calendar and which teachers have not yet been observed.

Technology is beginning to enter classrooms and perform some, though not all, of the tasks for which teachers have always been required.

There are numerous other combinations like these few examples in which teachers have had their evaluations based on students that are not even in the same building (any teacher receiving a district's value - added rating as shared attribution).

First, it provided those making the tenure decision with more information on teacher effectiveness including a district - developed Effectiveness Framework, a tool designed to guide principals and superintendents through a rigorous process for determining which teachers have earned tenure.

Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation of educator effectiveness by implementing mathematical models that include multiple measures of student growth and which evaluate educator effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety of factors that may impact student learning but over which the teacher has no influence.

Currently, she is following several teachers who «flipped» their classrooms (a process in which teachers have students watch the lecture portion of a class at home on video, then do the homework or more hands - on work, in class), and is preparing to go in that direction with her own class.

To do so could undermine support for the Common Core standards, which teachers have largely embraced because they know they're what their students need to succeed.

Teachers are threatened with loss of livelihood if they did not raise test scores even as funding is cut and no account is taken of the deteriorating social conditions their students are living in over which the teachers have no control.

Site and district leaders had identified several elements of this evaluation tool in which teachers would receive intensive professional development, the assumption being that if teachers were going to be evaluated on certain criteria, they deserved good professional development on those skills.

We also reject the virtual elimination of tenure that would result from the proposed evaluation system, in which teachers would be presumed incompetent based on that faulty data.

Of the nine, two are choice days in which teachers have significant autonomy over their learning.

«The AAEF applauds the innovation and dedication in which these teachers have demonstrated from their submissions,» said AAEF Chairman Gary Beckner.

Two weeks after the preservice teachers designed and presented their modelactivities during the sixth week of classes in the fall semester, one student (to be named «Trent» hereafter) inquired about a set of TI - 83s to use withhis onsite, small group teaching lesson, a requirement of the practicum course.Trent had been searching for ways to improve the test scores of these studentswhen he heard during class that using the TI - 83s and StudyCards was one wayin which a teacher had reached her social studies students with special needs.These special needs students had grown - up with GameBoys and other handheldvideo games and were motivated to learn using the TI - 83 since it was a similartype of device.

Our first step was to decide which teachers would be involved.

To see which teachers have access to a student's account, go to the student report and the names will be listed under the «Teachers» heading.

PLCs are built on the tight - loose balance: having some practices that are firm or structured, and others over which teachers have autonomy.

Here's a new, better deal for education: Find out which teachers would accept full accountability for achievement if they had full authority over what matters in school and give them that authority.

Let's spend # 5 million on research to find out and then make sure OFSTED checks that all schools are keeping a breathing register which teachers have to complete every lesson.

The current draft criteria for Race to the Top proclaims that states must be able to use student performance data from their respective state assessments, crosswalking it back to the classroom to determine which teachers have been effective (and which have not).