As school breaks up today I am just finishing my fourth year of teaching physics to students aged between 11 and 16 at a school in the South West of England. (sciencemag.org)
However, if, by their fourth year of teaching, a probationary teacher has not moved beyond the performance of the average novice in their district in terms of student achievement growth and measured classroom practice, students would be better off on average if the district were to commit to fill that teacher's assignment with a novice teacher every year instead. (gse.harvard.edu)
The department should specify that a probationary teacher is «ineffective» during their fourth year of teaching if: (i) a teacher's average student achievement gain during their second through fourth year of teaching falls below that of the average first - year teacher in their district or (ii) the classroom observations done by external observers during their second through fourth year of teaching falls below that of the average first - year teacher. (gse.harvard.edu)