Sentences with phrase «better teacher evaluation systems»

Better teacher evaluation systems have been shown to be related to better outcomes for students.

Far from being a «dead end» (as asserted by Marc Tucker in Education Week recently), better teacher evaluation systems will be vital for any broad reform effort, such as implementing the Common Core.

If New York State is serious about improving education, it must move forward with a better teacher evaluation system,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

«Ms. Russ is a very effective teacher, and if we put in place a better teacher evaluation system, teachers like Ms. Russ would be labeled very effective and benefit from the new system.»

In a debate between Kati Haycock and Eric Hanushek on how to ensure that more students have effective teachers, the two agreed about the importance of designing good teacher evaluation systems.

And districts that are well - run, and have good teacher evaluation systems in place, can get rid of veteran teachers that don't meet a standard and [don't] improve after that point.

Not exact matches

Cuomo pushed successfully this year for a new teacher evaluation system more closely linking state testing to performance as well as teacher tenure.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

The bill proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to make the state's new teacher evaluation system a valuable tool for parents and the public is almost good enough to support.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

«That's the good news — we have teacher evaluation systems for every school in the system.

«New York City's results prove that Governor Cuomo's evaluation system measures teacher effectiveness when implemented in good faith — making it a critical tool to improve schools for kids.

«Most teachers would do well on any evaluation system, but the union seems intent on watering down our new system to safeguard its lowest performing members, no matter the costs to students.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

Also non-negotiable should be the linkage of the standards to student tests and a teacher evaluation system that for the first time is distinguishing the best teachers from the worst.

«While the UFT focuses on political stunts and lobbying to keep bad teachers in the classroom, the mayor, governor, and State Education Department are working collaboratively to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation system that will help ensure our students have the best teachers,» she said in a statement.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to award $ 20,000 bonuses to teachers who are rated «highly effective» in local school districts» teacher evaluation systems is at best a politically tone - deaf head scratcher.

The UFT went to Albany to fight for better teacher evaluations, and we will continue to work toward a system that works for the students and teachers of New York.

UFT President Mulgrew said the union hopes the governor's assistance «will lead to an evaluation system that helps teachers get better throughout their career, offers help and a process to remove teachers who are not successful in the difficult job of teaching, and is done fairly.»

Whereas even Florida's much - vaunted teacher - evaluation system rated 98 percent of teachers as effective or highly effective, the most recent results from the New Mexico system rated only 71 percent of teachers effective or better.

In Michigan, 98 percent of teachers were rated effective or better under new teacher - evaluation systems recently put in place.

Fulton's approach is a useful example because she has focused on creating a teacher evaluation system that models the structures and processes that comprise «best practices» for student evaluations.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

Addressing the design flaws we have identified in teacher evaluation systems will bring districts closer to achieving the primary goal of meaningful teacher evaluation: assuring greater equity in students» access to good teachers.

One of the consequences of it not being addressed is that teachers who understand how the system works and value high evaluation scores will do their best to be assigned to schools with high ability students, and within schools will do their best to get assigned the best students.

And these evaluation systems are strikingly better than what they replaced: slapdash approaches involving a couple of classroom visits by a building principal for some teachers in some years that resulted in virtually all teachers being classified as high performing.

«Teachers want a fair and transparent evaluation system so we can all become better teachers,» she rTeachers want a fair and transparent evaluation system so we can all become better teachers,» she rteachers,» she remarked.

And centralized teacher - evaluation systems being pioneered by the Gates Foundation in their Measures of Effective Teaching effort were supposed to impose meaningful consequences for failure to perform well on those metrics.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Teachers in shortage areas, such as science, or teachers who take on leadership roles, such as being a peer evaluator in the new teacher evaluation system, will receive pay supplements Teachers in shortage areas, such as science, or teachers who take on leadership roles, such as being a peer evaluator in the new teacher evaluation system, will receive pay supplements teachers who take on leadership roles, such as being a peer evaluator in the new teacher evaluation system, will receive pay supplements as well.

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student perfoteacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student perfoTeacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

In a Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) study of the new evaluation system's 1999 — 2000 pilot, 75 percent of teachers said the new teaching standards were valid descriptions of good teaching.

We expect to use the results of this research to shape both the Instructional Partnership Initiative, which makes innovative use of feedback from our teacher evaluation system, as well as other state strategies for classroom improvement in years to come.»

At the same time, the system needs better career ladders for teachers and far more effective approaches to selection, mentoring, and evaluation in order to enlist such talent productively.

That work rested on a particular theory of action — that more rigorous evaluation systems would empower districts to make better decisions about which teachers to put at the front of the room and thereby improve student outcomes.

Therefore, a better system for teacher evaluation and feedback is necessary to support individual behavior change, and it's a tool for collective culture change as well.

More focused instructional and teacher quality strategies — like implementing the Common Core standards or improving teaching through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains, it seems to me.

Part of Tennessee's Comprehensive Educational Reform Act, the Career Ladder Evaluation System was both well funded and sophisticated in its approach to teacher eEvaluation System was both well funded and sophisticated in its approach to teacher evaluationevaluation.

Answers to these and other questions will shed light on how teacher evaluation systems might improve instructional practice as well as their implications for the teacher labor market.

After all, for those of us who've long embraced rethinking teacher evaluation and pay, a key argument is that well - designed systems will make teaching more attractive to young, motivated professionals.

«A key point of contention about an evaluation system is how much it will identify teachers who are not good and don't improve,» Mr. Gates writes.

That suite includes «public and private school choice,» which would be «a catalyst to improve the system»; better teacher training and evaluation; school evaluations based on student performance; and more digital learning.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

Although presented by supporters as an opportunity for states to put forward their best and most innovative ideas, in fact the selection criteria amounted to a detailed list of commitments in areas ranging from state standards and data systems to teacher evaluation systems and strategies to turn around low - performing schools.

To assess this broad array, an evaluation system might leverage classroom observations, tests and school records, as well as surveys of students, other teachers, and administrators.