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Merit Pay for Teachers
It makes intuitive sense to pay teachers according to how well they succeed, but serious institutional impediments stand in the way of making merit pay work.
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Teacher Tenure
Wherever teacher tenure protects a bad teacher, an incompetent administrator won't be far away.
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Teacher Workdays and In-Service Meetings
Teacher workdays can provide a number of highly beneficial outcomes if they focus on the needs of the professional staff and address professional development.
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How to Keep Good Teachers
Teachers cite job dissatisfaction as a primary reason for leaving education. Maintaining a professional environment can encourage many good teachers to stay.
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Teacher Attrition Rates
Many see a shortage of good teachers being related to those teachers retiring or low recruitment numbers of new teachers. There is a different analysis of the data.
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Developing Effective School Communities
All schools should be learning communities, supportive communities, and collaborative communities in which all faculty and staff benefit toward a common goal.
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Teacher Expectations beyond the Classroom
Preempting teacher burnout might begin by assessing the myriad of extra responsibilities added to the normal teaching schedule.
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Revisiting the Need for Faculty Meetings
Regularly scheduled faculty meetings frequently impair institutional efficiency when not linked to specific focus areas involving the entire professional staff.
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Counseling Students by Classroom Teachers
School systems seeking to save time and money are empowering class room teachers as student counselors and advisers but may be circumventing the law.
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Creating a Clear Leadership Vision
There isn't a magic formula for compelling people to action, but there are some essential components to an infectious vision.
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A Need for Quality Teachers
Many people see current teachers as under-qualified. Thus, it is essential to attract top students to the teaching profession.
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Social Networking Sites and Teacher Integrity
As inappropriate internet communication increases, school systems and boards must grapple with privacy issues that affect professional standards of behavior by teachers.
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How to Build Staff Morale
When issues of staff morale affects the functionality of an organization, they should be addressed and managed using clear steps,best practices and plan of action.
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