The key is to better identify the learning we expect from our students and to support ever higher levels of skill, effectiveness and good judgment in our teachers.
The point is not just to get rid of failing teachers, but to improve the skills and effectiveness of the millions of teachers who show up in the classrooms every day.
Some scholars have defined social competence as the ability of the individual to function as appropriate to age and cognitive abilities, or simple social skills, and effectiveness in interaction (McCabe and Meller 2004; Rose-Krasnor 1997).
That is, most omit or misconstrue the core coaching element that CEOs need to grow their skills and effectiveness: Increased self-awareness, honest self-knowledge, about one's motives, personality capacities and values.
An educational program to improve physicians' skills and effectiveness in smoking cessation has been developed and assessed by residents in outpatients clinics few years before [ 19].
When health services and health professionals adopt practices that assume significant literacy skills, their effectiveness for a large but often hidden population of people with low literacy is limited.
Ms. Porackova buys into the composer's excesses and sings with great fervor and skill, her effectiveness undone only by the overheated final scene.
You became Scottish Secretary in 2010 at a critical time in Scotland's relationship with the rest of the United Kingdom and you have managed the challenges of the situation with great skill and effectiveness.
More attention needs to be paid to the local and regional levels if we are "to prepare for and respond to natural and man-caused disasters with speed, skill and effectiveness," as Ms. Napolitano said in her confirmation hearing.
In this context, the report on Habyarimana's plane is the latest in a yearlong string of diplomatic and political moves that show the new Rwandan government achieving a level of sophistication, skill, and effectiveness in commanding international respect that has rarely, if ever, been seen before in Africa.
