New Teacher Distribution Methods Hold Promise

Autor/in	Sawchuk, Stephen
Titel	New Teacher Distribution Methods Hold Promise
Quelle	In: Education Week, 29 (2010) 35, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Teacher Effectiveness; Elementary Secondary Education; Teacher Distribution; Academic Achievement; Federal Government; School Districts; Legislation; Retention (Psychology); Educational Policy; Arizona; North Carolina; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Schulleistung; Bundesregierung; School district; Schulbezirk; Gesetzgebungslehre; Merkfähigkeit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	With effective teaching a top policy priority, certain school districts, the federal government, and nonprofit groups are renewing efforts to pilot and study strategies for pairing effective teachers with students in low-performing, high-poverty schools. The results could offer clues about how to rectify an imbalance in the distribution of the best teachers within districts--a requirement of both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the 2009 economic-stimulus law that addresses one of K-12 education's most intractable problems. The initiatives differ from earlier attempts to equalize teacher talent by using more sophisticated techniques to identify and target top teachers, including the use of value-added data. They also go beyond narrow transfer incentives to include targeted retention strategies, improved professional development, and a focus on the caliber of the school leaders and peers whom new teachers will be working with every day. Some of the districts are even working to place whole teams of educators--rather than just individuals--in challenging schools, a promising approach, some scholars say, at a time when individual teacher performance has galvanized much policy attention. The new efforts are among the first to approach the issue of teacher distribution by looking at teachers' ability to boost their students' academic achievement, an area that is only now generating significant research. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10