Sentence examples for evaluate classroom from inspiring English sources

Six states reversed policies that had made it impossible to use student achievement to evaluate classroom teachers.

(In Chicago, 80percentt of students qualify for free or reduced price lunches). Mayor Emanuel's scheme to evaluate classroom educators based on their students' test scores, a technique independent experts say is severely flawed, will make the situation worse.

The United Federation of Teachers said that principals were not evaluating classroom performance but were responding to Chancellor Harold O. Levy's call to be tougher on teachers.

A big chunk of that money is financing research by dozens of social scientists and thousands of teachers to develop a better system for evaluating classroom instruction.

But in cases where performance is exceptionally low, school leaders expect that a more accurate and consistent system of evaluating classroom performance will provide better evidence to justify removing some low-performing teachers, something rarely done in Chicago.

How can principals spend adequate time evaluating classroom instruction if we are cutting the support staff needed to help with safety and administration?

A review of 18 studies evaluating classroom-based team-training interventions found course duration varied from 4 h to 3 days with several studies describing longer train-the-trainer programmes.

The Classroom Discourse Analysis Tool (CDAT) is not meant to evaluate teachers' classroom discourse, but to reveal (a) teachers' discourse patterns with the lens of scientific reasoning and inquiry and (b) levels of students' engagement in the classroom discourse.

Colorado's law, passed last month, requires that school principals evaluate teachers' classroom effectiveness each year, and that at least half of their rating be tied to student achievement.

For now, those looking for a degree of constancy -- parents, teachers and administrators -- say they will depend more on the old reliables to evaluate students: classroom tests, report cards and individual conferences.

Another goal of the study was to evaluate the classroom climate created by these tools and the method "Think Actively in a Social Context" (TASC) proposed by Wallace and Adams (1993) and framed within project-based learning (PBL).