The Center for Educator Effectiveness works with CESA 7 districts and DPI to implement fully the DPI Educator
Effectiveness System beginning 2014 - 15 school year.
Not exact matches
Buoyed by the promise of federal funding and a burgeoning dialogue about teacher
effectiveness, districts are
beginning to overhaul their evaluation
systems to provide more finely grained information on teacher performance.
When school
systems begin to use measures of effective teaching to assess the
effectiveness of their own efforts, teachers will understand that the burden for improving teaching does not sit upon their shoulders alone.
«I'm excited that we have
begun our work with these national leaders and that our local school districts will be able to use their expertise to help build the types of comprehensive evaluation
systems that will provide meaningful feedback to teachers while gauging their
effectiveness in a fair manner.»
To
begin integrating formative assessment into a district
system, Perie and colleagues (2007) recommend that district leaders build capacity for formative assessment practices and evaluate the
effectiveness of these practices through teacher feedback and cost - benefit analyses.
A new way to evaluate teachers, known as the Wisconsin Educator
Effectiveness System,
begins this school year across Wisconsin — giving equal weight to teachers» performance in the classroom as judged by principals and student academic achievement.
As my recent book on Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education (Routledge, 2011) argued, when these
effectiveness indicators come online, the education
system can
begin to really engage in strategic management of the most important individuals in the education
system — teachers.
Though only four states require and provide funding for a multi-year teacher induction program, some states are also focusing on crafting residencies or induction programs to ensure new teachers» success.53 South Carolina's
System for Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Professional Teaching requires that before the
beginning of the school year, all new teachers be assigned mentors for at least one year.54 The mentors are selected and matched to mentees on the basis of
effectiveness; knowledge of new teacher professional development and effective adult learning strategies; and similar experience, certifications, and grade level assignments.
Earlier this year, it
began taking soundings on shareholder democracy issues, including proposals on whether to ban slate voting and mandate majority voting, which would ensure all directors are elected by a majority of voting shareholders, advisory votes on compensation, and the
effectiveness of the proxy voting
system.