Unfortunately, the excitement about big data may obscure this important distinction and may end up degrading, rather than improving, the quality of the teacher-student connection.
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If a teacher is dealing with a student through social media and it's within the bounds of the teacher-student relationship, and it's related to school and all that, I have no comment on that.
Infant mortality has declined, and some 100, 000 teachers have been hired to narrow the yawning teacher-student ratio.
Jim Keith, an education lawyer who represents several school boards in Missouri, has been giving talks to teachers in which he explains that most of the inappropriate student-teacher relationships start out on a friendship level.
The programme has been designed for both pre-service teacher education, i.e. for student teachers, and in the in-service education of experienced teachers.
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But if that realization is leading his team to shun "structural" reforms in favor of classroom-level changes only--merely reconstructing "the learning partnership between teacher and student" as their new materials put it--they're apt to end up disappointed once again.
As the popularity of Facebook and Twitter has increased, so have the complaints about inappropriate student-teacher contact.
Charter schools are the exception, beacons of success which attract many parents with the promise of low student-teacher ratios, alternative programs and proven results.
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Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.
As an example, he said that a moment of "indiscretion" between a "23-year-old male teacher with a 17-year-old female student after a sixth form social function could land the teacher in the criminal court, facing six months of imprisonment".
In fact, teacher-student interaction was one of the pillars.
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It is part of a broader initiative, NYC21C, that began last year and looks for ways ways to educate students beyond the classic model of one teacher, one lesson and a 35-student classroom.
The combination of software, broadband networks and powerful, affordable devices is making it possible to put high-quality educational resources into the hands of any teacher or student who has access to basic technology infrastructure and tools.
He said that student-achievement data is only one component of the district's teacher-evaluation system, which relies heavily on principal observations.
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The law's mandated student testing and teacher training have come with little funding, forcing many low-income schools to choose between investing in core academic offerings or paying for the new requirements, the Arizona governor said.
The research, based on the US-wide National Education Longitudinal Survey, found that a teacher's gender had "large effects on student test performance".
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It illsutrates teacher-centred and student-centred approaches which can play a part in helping students relate the curriculum to the real world - both the natural and technological environments in which they live.
The project also found that using multiple measures to understand a teacher's performance -- including classroom observations, student surveys and growth in student achievement -- provides a richer and more reliable picture of a teacher's strengths and areas for improvement than any one measure alone.
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