Understanding the Gates Foundation's Measuring
Effective Teachers project [blog post].
So it is no accident that the release of the third and final round of reports from the Gates Foundation's Measuring
Effective Teachers project was greeted with the following headline in the Washington Post: «Gates Foundation study: We've figured out what makes a good teacher,» or this similarly humble claim in the Denver Post: «Denver schools, Gates foundation identify what makes effective teacher.»
On Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, the Gates Foundation released the third and final component of the Measuring
Effective Teachers project, a gargantuan effort spearheaded by Harvard economist Thomas Kane.
Not exact matches
There are plenty of deeper - learning skeptics out there, and one of their chief concerns is that while
project - based learning in the hands of a well - trained educator can be used in the classroom in a highly
effective way, it is also a technique that is easy for an unprepared
teacher to do quite badly.
Recentanalysis by the Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project found that
teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.
Recent analysis by the Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project found that
teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.
Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on
teacher evaluation, the Measures of
Effective Teaching
Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the
teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.
A powerful way to support the development of growth mindsets among
teachers is for them to experience a positive impact in their classrooms, and
teachers have shared with us the positive impact they have seen when they have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and work on
projects, such as creating more
effective lessons.
For instance, in the Measures of
Effective Teaching
project, we learned that even with trained raters, a single observation of a single lesson is an unreliable measure of a
teacher's practice.
IMPACT's features are broadly consistent with emerging best - practice design principles informed by the Measures of
Effective Teaching
project, and are intended to drive improvements in
teacher quality and student achievement (see «Capturing the Dimensions of
Effective Teaching,» features, Fall 2012).
After extensive research on
teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of
Effective Teaching
Project mentions three different measures to provide
teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of
teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.
What Makes an
Effective Team The researchers, members of The
Project on the Next Generation of
Teachers, looked...
In fact, an under - reported result from the MET
Project is that current state tests can be used to identify
effective teachers.
• In the Measures of
Effective Teaching
Project, students were surveyed about many dimensions of the instruction they received and these were correlated with their
teachers» value - added estimates.
In the largest study of instructional practice ever undertaken, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project is searching for tools to save the world from perfunctory
teacher evaluations.
During
projects,
teachers can deliberately emphasize those strategies that research shows to be highly
effective — such as formative assessment, feedback, learning from errors, setting goals, and self - monitoring.
Teachers who are familiar with the Program to Enhance
Effective Learning or PEEL
project will know about «Think, Pair, Share».
Much more
effective, he says, is encouraging students to follow their natural interest in technology and then bring them together with
teachers whose expertise in subject matter provides content for
projects involving technology.
These ideas are based upon the RISE model and have been trialled as Pop Up Pedagogy
projects, which are small trials of new ideas
teachers have found
effective.
The exhibit, in which 15
teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from
Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain
effective and equitable schools.»
This special page offers definitions of those terms and many sample
projects from
teachers who believe that involving students in service
projects is an
effective strategy for engaging interest in the curriculum and in their communities.
Project - based learning
teachers can choose from among many types of driving questions, but sometimes we get stuck when trying to come up with a great one because there are so many considerations in the design process that informs the crafting of an
effective driving question.
In accordance with research on
effective problem - based learning designs (Hung, 2009),
teachers at Manor New Tech design
projects so that learning the content defined by the state standards is necessary in order to successfully complete the
project.
According to its website, the Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
Project is «designed to find out the best way to give
teachers the information and support they want.»
He recently partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the «Measures of
Effective Teaching» (or MET)
project, which was intended to develop metrics capable of determining which
teachers are faring better than others, and to determine what factors help determine success.
A second step would be to design more -
effective professional development and training systems for
teachers, a
project that could also benefit K — 12.
I'm the production lead for Common Sense Education's EdTech Tips
project, where we create short, actionable, video - and web - based content to help
teachers and students learn new, innovative, and
effective ways to use edtech tools.
She is involved in several research
projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of
effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.
Through one case study, WestEd's Academic Parent -
Teacher Teams (APTT) developed a project that put a new and effective twist on parent - teacher inter
Teacher Teams (APTT) developed a
project that put a new and
effective twist on parent -
teacher inter
teacher interaction.
Yesterday I described the Gates Foundation's Measuring
Effective Teachers (MET)
project as «an expensive flop.»
Our foundation is working with a number of districts, including Hillsborough (Florida), Memphis, and Pittsburgh, to advance comprehensive
teacher reforms, and we are engaged with nearly 3,000
teachers in six school districts on a
project called «Measures of
Effective Teaching.»
The Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array of measures that will be viewed by
teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a
teacher's impact on student achievement.
About the MET
Project The MET project is a research partnership of academics, teachers, and education organizations committed to investigating better ways to identify and develop effective te
Project The MET
project is a research partnership of academics, teachers, and education organizations committed to investigating better ways to identify and develop effective te
project is a research partnership of academics,
teachers, and education organizations committed to investigating better ways to identify and develop
effective teaching.
This pilot
project focused on improving
teachers» understanding and use of
effective feedback.
The Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET) project was designed to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to help districts identify and develop great
Effective Teaching (MET)
project was designed to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell
teachers more about the skills that make them most
effective and to help districts identify and develop great
effective and to help districts identify and develop great teaching.
«The Measures of
Effective Teaching
project will examine the work of 3,700
teachers from across the country, using videotapes, surveys, and student assessments to figure out what works and what doesn't.»
The research, by Brian Kisida and Anna Egalite, relies on Tripod surveys and other data from the Measures of
Effective Teaching
project to examine the impact of having demographically similar
teachers on a wide range of students» academic perceptions and attitudes.
Projects have included:
teacher career pathway programs that diversified roles in the teaching force;
teacher career pathways that recognize, develop, and reward excellent
teachers as they advance through various career stages; incentives for
effective teachers who take on instructional leadership roles within their schools; incentives that attract, support, reward, and retain the most
effective teachers and administrators at high - need schools; rigorous, ongoing leadership development training for
teacher leaders and principals, leadership roles for
teachers aimed at school turnaround; and the creation of new salary structures based on effectiveness.
We are thrilled to launch a partnership this Spring with a new organization called the Black
Teacher Project, who, through a combination of programming and research, seeks to identify successful strategies for developing and retaining highly
effective Black educators in Oakland schools.
Despite the challenges that
effective technology integration poses for educators, there is hope in the powerful suggestions provided by preservice
teachers and those
teachers who continue their professional development through opportunities like the National Writing
Project and its regional and state sites across the country.
The Gates» foundation also «bought» many of the Common Core State Standards initiatives and it funds multi-state
projects where
teachers who produce above average gains in test scores are defined as «
effective.»
The program has funded 131
projects to improve pay structures, reward
effective teachers and principals and provide greater professional opportunities to educators in high poverty schools.
In addition, and building upon the success of the 1:1 iPad
project at Roy B. Kelley Elementary School, Mrs. Bradley, along with the administrative team and
teacher leaders began to search for efficient and
effective resources that would make it possible to differentiate instruction and accelerate learning.
Hill, Ball and Brian Rowan find only modest links between measures of the mathematical knowledge that
teachers need for teaching and their students» performance on standardized math tests, and the vaunted Measures of
Effective Teaching
project had to abandon its content knowledge for teaching measures, designed to assess some aspects of pedagogical content knowledge, as they were not associated with student achievement.
For example, the New York City research shows that
teachers tend to more
effective when their student teaching has been well - supervised and aligned with methods coursework, and when the training program required a capstone
project that related their clinical experience to training.
Designing
teacher evaluation systems: New guidance from the Measures of
Effective Teaching
project (pp. 278 - 302).
In that role, she developed
projects to improve retention of highly
effective teachers, including LIFT: Leadership Initiative for Teachers, a career ladder system for teachers, and Teaching In Action, a program that connects teachers with high performing colleagues for classroom obser
teachers, including LIFT: Leadership Initiative for
Teachers, a career ladder system for teachers, and Teaching In Action, a program that connects teachers with high performing colleagues for classroom obser
Teachers, a career ladder system for
teachers, and Teaching In Action, a program that connects teachers with high performing colleagues for classroom obser
teachers, and Teaching In Action, a program that connects
teachers with high performing colleagues for classroom obser
teachers with high performing colleagues for classroom observations.
So, rather than having «figured out what makes a good
teacher» the Gates Foundation has learned very little in this
project about
effective teaching practices.
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An earlier promise of this
project is that they would figure out which
teacher evaluation rubrics were best and which sub-components of those rubrics that were most predictive of
effective teaching.