Sentence examples for teacher's student from inspiring English sources

That said, any release of a teacher's student test results must be compared with other teachers' results for comparable student populations and be of a multiyear nature, recognizing that things often happen in any given year, either to the teacher or to his or her class.

"In accordance with state law, a local educational agency (LEA) has discretion over whether or not to include data from statewide assessments in determining a teacher's student growth rating," Delisle wrote.

The freakishly nice British weather has clearly got this teacher's students thinking.

If most of a teacher's students did not improve, Mr. Schundler said, that could be used as evidence of the teacher's ineptitude.

He has called for basing merit pay increases on how well a teacher's students perform on standardized tests compared with the previous year's results.

But if, year in and year out, a teacher's students consistently under- or overperform with respect to predictions, one can rightly assume that some significant proportion of student performance is the result of that teacher.

She said student test scores should also be considered, not by comparing last year's test scores with this year's, but by assessing whether a teacher's students had shown improvement in the classroom during the school year.

The mayor also asserts that a merit pay system, tying raises to how well a teacher's students perform on standardized tests, is the best way to induce teachers to improve their performance.

Instead, the department's accountability experts have developed a complex formula to calculate how much academic progress a teacher's students make in a year — the teacher's value-added score — and that formula indicates that Ms. Isaacson is one of the city's worst teachers.

In 2006, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that the state should set tougher requirements for teachers' tenure, and he introduced language in his budget proposal to include "an analysis of data and other information on the performance of the teacher's students where such data and information are available".

The key is that classrooms ought to be balanced, with only about half of children living in poverty; if two-thirds of a teacher's students are dealing with problems such as hunger, subpar housing or a parent's unemployment, you can bet that teacher will spend time on issues other than reading, writing and arithmetic.