Sentences with phrase «widespread practice of teachers»

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Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

The findings across these four studies suggested that demonstration lessons or modeling were employed by teacher leaders, but were not as widespread as less «formal» practices and that the occurrence of demonstration lessons decreased over time.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

Still others, focused on innovative curricula (in science and mathematics, for example), typically address one part of a school's program and aim for widespread implementation, while innovative approaches to instruction, such as cooperative learning, hope to change teachers» practices one teacher at a time.

Although it is exciting to think about ways that self - regulation can be embedded in teacher preparation programs, it is important to be realistic about the challenges that must be addressed if our vision of teachers who are adept at SRL is to be turn into widespread practice in real classrooms.

Though practices like incorporating student achievement measures into the teacher evaluation process are becoming widespread, the application of that information to personnel policies remains highly variable across the country.

The report found that «widespread public awareness of the damage caused by the overuse and misuse of standardized testing, coupled with effective grass - roots organizing by parents, teachers, students and their allies, is increasingly producing positive changes in state and district testing practices.»

In particular, the dawning recognition of this paradigm shift has not yet been translated into widespread changes in teacher preparation practice.

The widespread use of electronic grade books, strongly aligned benchmark assessment systems and report generators that provide analytics more aligned to the critical questions teachers want to ask, are reducing the high hurdles and frustrations experienced by teachers and make it easier for them to assimilate the practice in real time, not dependent on seat time in a course.