Principals value teachers who learn new teaching techniques, keep current on technology changes, continue their university coursework, and develop better communication skills.
Not exact matches
Communicate your
values to the school's
teachers and
principal.
This is in no small part due to
Principal Caliber's tenacity, the
teachers» commitment, the parents» engagement and the surrounding community's high
value for education.
03, Ed.D.» 12, offers an analysis of the
value of instructional rounds in education through the testimonies of those whom the fairly new practice affects most directly:
teachers,
principals, and district personnel.
A
teacher's contribution to a school's community, as assessed by the
principal, was worth 10 percent of the overall evaluation score, while the final 5 percent was based on a measure of the
value - added to student achievement for the school as a whole.
The principles of professional learning and training for
teachers and
principals that were advocated
valued the centrality of dialogical conversations with educators as the core of professional development.
Much as we
value and should reward fine
teachers, those who lead them will need to be paid substantially more if we are serious about finding and keeping great
principals.
In an effort to significantly alter the human capital in the nine schools, 100 percent of
principals, 30 percent of other administrators, and 52 percent of
teachers were removed and replaced with individuals who possessed the
values and beliefs consistent with an achievement - driven mantra and, wherever possible, a demonstrated record of achievement.
Student surveys: Many
teacher evaluation systems already incorporate the results of student surveys, which research suggests can also predict school and
principal value - added.
These results suggest either that the academic considerations parents
value are better captured by
principal ratings or that parents have difficulty observing how much
value a
teacher adds to reading and math test scores.
that
principals should «find something to
value in all the school's
teachers.
In these surveys, we asked
principals to evaluate their
teachers along a variety of dimensions, including dedication and work ethic, organization, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, student satisfaction, role model
value for students, and ability to raise math and reading achievement.
We compared the predictive accuracy of a
principal's assessment of
teacher effectiveness with the predictive accuracy of a
teacher's
value - added rating.
The correlation between ratings by
principals and the average test scores of a
teacher's students is significantly higher than the correlation between ratings by
principals and the
teacher's
value - added rating in reading (0.56 versus 0.32), though not in math.
We compared a
principal's assessment of how effective a
teacher is at raising student reading or math achievement, one of the specific items
principals were asked about, with that
teacher's actual ability to do so as measured by their
value added, the difference in student achievement that we can attribute to the
teacher.
Using the overall rating in that way could compromise the accuracy of subjective performance evaluations, especially if
principals value characteristics of
teachers that are unrelated to their effect on student performance.
Measures of
teachers»
value added in previous years are an even better predictor of future gains in students» achievement than are
principal ratings.
Principals can also evaluate
teachers on the basis of a broader spectrum of educational outputs in addition to test scores that parents may
value.
We find a positive correlation between a
principal's assessment of how effective a
teacher is at raising student achievement and that
teacher's success in doing so as measured by the
value - added approach: 0.32 for reading and 0.36 for math.
Principal Maria Berriman has recognised the
value of science and the
value of up - skilling all
teachers.
Teachers and
principals report that the stronger specialists help them analyze lesson plans and student work in the context of the new standards, while the weaker ones add little
value at best and misinformation at worst.
The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring
value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school
teachers and
principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»
While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «
principal walk - through» styles of class observation, its use is on the rise in new and proposed evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom observation is often combined with other measures, such as
teacher value - added based on student test scores.
NAESP's Pre-K-8
Principals Conference offers tremendous
value to Pre-K-8 administrators and
teacher leader teams.
We examined
teachers «perceptions of
principals «efforts to involve others, and
teachers «descriptions of their own leadership for improvement (measured by sense of collective responsibility and the development of shared norms and
values).
The
teachers»
value - added from prior years, in which they had been assigned students based on the
principals» predilections, provided unbiased forecasts of student achievement during the randomized year.
People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring
principals and
teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a
value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.
So there is good reason to fear that
principals in public schools, if given discretion to reward
teachers as they please, will base their decisions on personal relationships rather than on the results of
value - added assessments.
But if
principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower -
value - added
teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher -
value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.
The superintendent, in turn, has an incentive to hire and retain
principals who will use the
value - added results to hire and promote the best
teachers.
When we hire new
teachers, our
principals are always looking for the knowledge, strategies and core beliefs that we
value at Sanger Unified.
In the case of Molina, a high rate of
teacher turnover exacerbated the effects of rapid
principal turnover, thereby muting the potential
values associated with more
teacher leadership.
Principals whose
teachers rate them high on Instructional Climate emphasize the
value of research - based strategies and are able to apply them in the local setting.
They framed it as a function of whether the
principal and district authorities invited,
valued, and acted upon input from
teachers.
What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance
teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive
teacher and
principal evaluations based mostly on
value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.
I don't think this precludes an unscrupulous
principal from assigning challenging students to a
teacher in the hope that the
teacher will fail, and obtain a low
value - added score; however, the models are not designed to illuminate specific cases, but rather to reveal trends across many
teachers and classrooms.
Teachers and
principals now have an incredible opportunity to both ensure that they are using data ethically and effectively to support their students, and to work with families to make sure they too get
value from this powerful tool.
Regardless, and put simply, an SGO / SLO is an annual goal for measuring student growth / learning of the students instructed by
teachers (or
principals, for school - level evaluations) who are not eligible to participate in a school's or district's
value - added or student growth model.
Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force
principals and other
teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of
teachers» effectiveness with
teachers»
value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.
The VAL - ED has not yet been validated to show that the
teacher survey rating is related to student achievement growth, but I'd bet it provides better information about
principal performance than either a rating by a supervisor or any currently existing
value - added measure.
A highly effective
principal might improve the school's
value - added so that it is more effective than it was in the past, but it is likely to take several years before the combination of staff development, improvements in school environment, and replacement of ineffective
teachers can make the school a high -
value - added school.1
It is much harder to measure
principal value - added because students don't change
principals every year, and
principals» effects on students are mostly indirect:
principals affect student achievement through
teachers.
The connection is nearly identical to the correlations that prior studies have found between
value - added measures and confidential low - stakes evaluations of
teachers by their
principals.
Principals trust
teachers who
value their time and understand the enormity of the job.
Henry Braun of the Educational Testing Service wrote: «[
Value added modeling] results should not serve as the sole or
principal basis for making consequential decisions about
teachers.
After talking with more than 1,300
teachers, professional development leaders,
principals, and experts, we were surprised by one thing: While these forms of collaborative PD are backed by research and highly
valued by school leaders,
teachers are far from satisfied with their implementation to date.
«Support for
value added also appears stronger among administrators than
teachers... But
principals are still somewhat skeptical.»
Predictably, the numbers of veteran, highly - skilled
teachers retiring has skyrocketed, leading
principals all over the state to lament the loss of
teacher leadership in their districts; they know the
value of veteran
teacher expertise.
What if parents had an anonymous way to tell their child's
teacher and
principal if they felt
valued by their child's school?
As a result, there is no followership — no commitment among parents,
teachers and
principals to the
values and ideals of reform.