Numerous participants were of the view that the percentage of under-performing teachers was likely to be small such that it would be unwise to focus teacher appraisal efforts on the objective of identifying those teachers.
The Student Thinking Lens focuses teachers' attention on revealing, supporting, and challenging student thinking.
This case study thus explored the affordances of the representations and model they inscribed as well as the challenges of focusing teachers and students on the salient aspects of representations to support conceptual change.
The Senate recently passed a bill from Education Chairman Dan Patrick, Republican of Houston, focused on teacher appraisal and preparation.
The campus remained focused on teacher training until the mid-1970s.
Furthermore, there appear to be no studies focused on teacher educators.
A smaller proportion of excluded studies was unrelated to undergraduate medical education (n = 72), and even fewer focused on teacher evaluation rather than course evaluation (n = 34).
I like the idea of focusing on teachers and teacher quality.
We present the argument that in order to improve teacher quality, one must focus on teacher performance.
In a recent systematic review of musculoskeletal disorders among school teachers by Erick and Smith [ 7], four studies from Asia focused on teachers at schools with handicapped children.
