The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students. In this article we use valueadded methods to examine the relationship between a school’s effectiveness and the recruitment, assignment, development, and retention of its teachers. Our results reveal four key findings. First, we find that more effective school...

BACKGROUND Effective teaching in medicine is essential to produce good quality doctors. A number of studies have attempted to identify the characteristics of an effective teacher. However, most of literature regarding an effective medical teacher includes student ratings or expert opinions. Furthermore, interdisciplinary studies for the same are even fewer. We did a cross-sectional study of the...

Wil is a writer, teacher, learning technologist and keen language learner. teachers in using classroom and web technology, and written e-learning materials for or who are used to the traditional 'teacher and class' model of education. and online learning, in the hands of a welltrained teacher, both delivery methods. Setting plays a crucial role in effective teaching, and learning and eLearning ...

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title 1 schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in consecutive years. Difference-in-difference estimates of the effect of failing AYP in the first year of NCLB on teacher effort in the subsequent year suggest that, on average, teacher absence...

Despite national guidelines to reform K-12 science education, our students are not learning science any better. Conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a symposium examined several programs where professional scientists interact with classroom teachers to improve science education. Symposium participants described their projects and discussed the...

We used a multiple baseline design across participants to determine if teacher greetings would reduce the latency to task engagement. Three participants were identified by their respective teachers as having difficulty initiating task-appropriate engagement at the beginning of class. Latency was measured from teacher greeting until the participant was actively engaged for 5 consecutive seconds....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider how the level and structure of teacher salaries affect student outcomes and the possibility of improving student achievement in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis integrates an underlying economic model of the role of salaries in the teacher labor market with existing empirical results. Findings – Much of the current policy dis...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss ideas related to test preparation. Specifically, the authors focus on physical education teacher preparation programs. The paper discusses the current high-stakes testing landscape that exists in teacher education, shares the T.E.S.T. model (Translate, Eliminate, Solve or Substitute, and (avoid) Tricks) for test preparation, examines how self-efficacy is ...

Sadly, there are commonly divides between the worlds of theory, practice and policy; in this paper I draw on 20 years experience in the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL) and a range of other projects that have involved forms of teacher research to discuss how both the process and the products of teacher research can help bridge these divides. The paper looks at three areas where P...

Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students? We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data included information about mathematics and reading scores a...