Pronouns and Preferred Names: When Public School Teachers’ Religious Beliefs Conflict With School Directives

A 2020 lawsuit involves a public school teacher who refused to address transgender students by their preferred names because of his religious beliefs. This case is particularly significant because it is the first K–12 decision that analyzes this matter. This issue has important policy implications for schools and students.

UPAYA MENINGKATAN KOPETENSI PEDAGOGIK GURU MELALUI SUPERVISI AKADEMIK DI SMP NEGERI 8 KETAPANG

This research aims to know the proer steps in achieving academic supervision thus being able to improve teacher pedagogical competencies primarily in the learning process that will eventually affect the quality of education. So resarch is done on two cycles. On every cycles has differentplanning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The principal and teacher’s research subjects. The principal with his academic supervision act, while the 8 Ketapang public school teacher of the country was both object and subject to the administering of academic supervision. The technique of data collection through class supervision stage in the learning process, to record importand events related to research particularly at the time of the learning process. Research shows that teacher’s ability to implement the learning process experiances an increase of percentage per step from cycle I to an average of 63% (enough) and to cycle II to an average of 68% (good).there is a 5% increase in teacher’s ability in this cycle I. There is a significant increase in the initial conditions of the school whwn compared with the final conditions of the second cycle II. Teacher punctuality gets into the classroom increases 48%, media utilization increases 32%, variative methods increase 31%, and study strategies increase 36%.Keywords: Pedagogical Competencies, Academic Supervision, and Improved Middle Education Quality (SMP).

Collective Participation: A Story of Business, Community, Schools, and University Partnering in STEM Education

The quality of the public school teacher has the greatest in-school impact on nurturing cognitive abilities, developing content knowledge, and increasing motivation of students (Ferguson & Ladd 1996; Haycock 1998; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain 2005; Rice 2003; Sanders & Rivers, 1996; Zollman, Tahernezhadi, & Billman, 2012). We also know from educational research (Johnson & Sondergeld, 2015) that traditional professional development formats do not result in improvement of teacher practices nor substantial gain in student achievement. This paper reports on a shift in the traditional professional development project – one to enhance the quality of the public school teacher in STEM education projects through a synergy of business, community, and school districts partners with education and science university faculty.

Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio: política educacional ressignificada por professores de uma escola pública / High School National Evaluation Exam: educational policy resigned by public school teacher´s

Este artigo aborda os resultados de uma pesquisa de natureza descritivo-analítica que buscou compreender a perspectiva dos professores de uma escola pública estadual paulista de ensino médio sobre as repercussões do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio na prática profissional docente. A partir da observação-participante e entrevistas semiestruturadas, buscou-se responder a questão norteadora do estudo: quais as perspectivas destes docentes sobre o ENEM e a repercussão desta política avaliativa em suas práticas pedagógicas? O eixo de análise centrou-se na reconstrução que os professores fazem da política avaliativa ao ressignificarem-na em suas práticas profissionais. Os dados obtidos indicam que, apesar de mudanças pontuais no trabalho do professor, a implantação de uma política educacional que não considera o processo formativo dos docentes, suas condições objetivas de trabalho e a perspectiva que eles têm dessa política enfraquece o seu potencial indutor de mudanças significativas no currículo, nas práticas docentes e na avaliação da aprendizagem.

Adjusting State Public School Teacher Salaries for Interstate Comparison

Using the three-year microdata sample of the American Community Survey for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across US states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, federal tax rates, household amenity attractiveness, and location within the metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan portions of the states. We find high persistence in the state rankings of nominal public school teacher salaries across time. Yet, we also find that the rankings significantly shift with the adjustments, suggesting they are necessary for meaningful comparisons of public teacher salaries across states. The differences in teacher pay across states also greatly narrow with the adjustments. Finally, this is the first study to show and test that teacher salary comparisons across states should be based on a comparison of public school teacher salaries with nonteacher college graduates in the states, adjusted for differences in personal characteristics and effective federal tax rates.

Public School Teacher Management in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students who have completed higher secondary and tertiary education but also that all students obtain a much better education. Raising teacher effectiveness is considered to be crucial for achieving these aims. This article reviews the literature on teacher management in Sri Lanka and points to what may be critical teacher management issues. The article also discusses considerations and options for addressing these issues, informed by international evidence on approaches to improve teacher effectiveness.