Sentence examples for base teachers from inspiring English sources

Teaching, on the whole, lacks this specialized knowledge base; teachers teach based mostly on what they have picked up from experience and from their colleagues.

The daily noontime gathering features some of the activist elements of the Democratic base — teachers, firefighters, students and other union sympathizers — singing labor songs and standards with revamped lyrics to reflect Wisconsin's union fight.

We all have something at stake in this case -- the teachers whose ability to band together and have a shared voice on the job is on the line; the students who benefit when their teachers negotiate for smaller class sizes; the local businesses that benefit from the middle class customer base teachers and firefighters and other public service workers represent.

Teachers in the United States and France have gone on strike over the issue and Britain's teachers' unions and those that represent head teachers found themselves on opposite sides of a recent debate about whether to base teachers' pay on their performance.

There is a growing national movement to base teacher evaluations on student performance, but it hasn't reached Fairfax.

The challenge for school systems that base teacher compensation on student performance is to comprehensively and fairly weigh variables when evaluating teachers.

Only eight states, for example, require districts to base teacher pay on performance rather than on experience or the attainment of a master's degree.

"This agreement would base teacher hiring, assignment and whether a teacher is going to be fired on actual classroom performance — the way it is in most professions," Ms. Cohen said.

The bill removes any requirement to base teacher evaluation on test results.

They also note that supposedly objective criteria to base teacher performance on, like test scores, are unreliable.

StudentsFirst has a history of drawing backlash from teacher unions for seeking to base teacher evaluations on student test scores and pushing for charter schools to reform public education.