But, on Monday, DC Public Schools officials announced some troubling news concerning their acclaimed
IMPACT teacher evaluation program.
Not exact matches
The purpose of this project is to perform the
evaluation portion of a randomized control trial designed to assess the
impact of The Match School Foundation, Inc.'s
teacher training
program for novice
teachers on outcomes such as achievement growth of
teachers» students, principal ratings, and retention with the ultimate goal of improving K - 12 education.
Evaluations of the
impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively
Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of
teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.
But when Paul von Hippel and Laura Bellows took a close look at the
evaluations of
teacher education
programs in six states, they found that the differences between the
programs in their graduates»
impact on student learning were negligible.
A state
program designed to allow districts to provide career pathways, professional development,
evaluations, and pay increases to
teachers, Q Comp has been largely underutilized given its potential
impacts.
As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC]
Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT progra
Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's
IMPACT [
teacher]
evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563
teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT progra
teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the
IMPACT program here].
In addition, the study's analyses of TAH grantee
evaluations found that the
evaluations were not sufficiently rigorous to determine the
impact of the TAH
program on student achievement or
teacher knowledge.
Conversely, a Washington incentive
program tied to the district's
teacher -
evaluation system boosted
teacher performance but didn't have a noticeable
impact on
teacher retention for the most effective
teachers.
The observation - based
evaluations in Cincinnati, for example, have led to improvements in
teacher effectiveness, [17] as has the
IMPACT evaluation system in Washington, D.C. [18] Both of these
programs provide feedback to
teachers on their instructional practices.
The
evaluation found that the
program positively
impacted teachers» beliefs, confidence, and capacity to develop and implement interdisciplinary art units.
The
evaluation brief synthesizes two recent NCEE
impact studies, which evaluated key strategies that can be funded through the federal
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants and its successor
program, Read more about Key Strategies to Promote Educator Effectiveness -LSB-...]
During the forum,
teacher and administrator representatives agreed that improving quality instruction for students should be the top priority of the
evaluation initiative, though DelPlano and Tenturier conceded they were apprehensive over how any implemented
program might
impact their ultimate ratings, particularly using student performance as a criteria.
The
teacher -
evaluation program's reported
impact on
teacher practice was achieved almost entirely through the goal - setting portion of this reform.
An
evaluation of the
Teacher Advancement
Program (TAP) in Chicago: Year two
impact report.
Identifying Alternative Certification
Programs for an
Impact Evaluation of
Teacher Preparation.
Independent
evaluations of the
impact of local
programs show they are making a positive difference in student achievement and
teacher - reported student motivation, attentiveness, pro-social behaviors, and homework completion / quality.
In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate
evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant
program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s
IMPACT System).
Obama and Bush supported strong data - based accountability for schools and districts, charter schools, meaningful
teacher evaluation, school choice and the redesign of most of the education department's
programs for greater
impact.
Analysis of current policy trends influencing leadership preparation and development (e.g., political and contextual issues that
impact leadership education such as state changes in
teacher and principal
evaluation systems,
impact of Common Core Standards on
programs, and / or other timely and relevant policy topics)
Steven Glazerman and Allison Seifullah, «An
Evaluation of the
Teacher Advancement
Program (TAP) in Chicago: Year Two
Impact Report,» Mathematical Policy Research, May 17, 2010.
Strengthen
teacher preparation outcomes by promoting ongoing
evaluation and the meaningful use of
program impact and implementation data
The
evaluation, conducted by EY Sweeney, found that ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching
Program is having a positive
impact on
teachers and supports stronger levels of student financial literacy, and greater engagement within the wider school community in financial literacy.
Data collected through the
program evaluation demonstrates that these research experiences
impact the
teachers long after the initial experience.