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.
He said that student-achievement data is only one component of the district's teacher-evaluation system, which relies heavily on principal observations.
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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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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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.
As the popularity of Facebook and Twitter has increased, so have the complaints about inappropriate student-teacher contact.
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.
In fact, teacher-student interaction was one of the pillars.
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Alice Kaplan, a close student of French intellectual life, quotes an anti-Nazi teacher who, when coaching pupils for the Ecole's entrance exam, wondered if they would put their intelligence and learning to misuse.
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.
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.
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