The Teaching Effectiveness series seeks to bolster the teaching practice of all UAB instructors through workshops that inspire continuous improvement in teaching skills. Participation in each workshop ...

The National Education Association last week announced the names of 21 educators and academics who will sit on its Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching, a group that will make recommendations ...

Seniority, in the modern education reform lexicon, is among the dirtiest words. Senior teachers are not only ineffective and greedy and never put interest of the children over their own, but they are ...

Teachers in high-poverty schools in Florida and North Carolina are on average only slightly less effective than those in low-poverty schools. However, within schools, there’s a broader talent spread ...

Earning a master’s degree in education not only improves your career prospects, but it also is shown to improve classroom performance. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) reports that ...

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A look at the multiple measures and multiple methods used in new teacher evaluation systems, including the weighting of these measures, to determine a composite score of teacher effectiveness.

Teachers play a crucial role in fostering children’s success in school. Policymakers must consider ways to support and prepare high-quality teachers while aligning expectation and opportunities for ...

Teacher effectiveness is widely recognised as a critical determinant of student achievement, influencing both short‐term academic performance and long‐term socioeconomic outcomes. Extensive research ...

When I returned from my National Guard deployment in 2007, I met my future wife. I told her about my experience in Iraq, to which she replied, “Thank God there are people like you.” When I asked her ...