But what makes for highly effective teachers?
I use her to train my less experienced and less effective teachers.
But just as some principals are more effective, teachers also vary.
In the US, the Talent Transfer Initiative gives bonuses to highly effective teachers — with a catch.
Research has demonstrated that those who had low scores are often less effective teachers.
Reforms need to address the problem of getting effective teachers into classrooms to serve disadvantaged kids.
Messrs Duncan and Obama want to value effective teachers, not "qualified" ones.
This, they say, will ensure that the lowest-performing schools can lure more effective teachers.
(And I'm talking to you, Mary Johnson of Wines Elementary!) Who were your most effective teachers?
The head of a school in Gloucestershire which converted to an academy under the coalition said: "I would have strikes if I started paying the most effective teachers more than the less effective teachers.
These schools, recognizing that children's performance depends on effective teachers, pay far higher salaries than inner-city schools do.
