When I retired from leading a portfolio of schools with 10,522 students K - 12 in December, I felt my job dealt mostly with compliance with law and less
about effectiveness in the classroom.
Not exact matches
How do you apply research
about teacher
effectiveness in your
classroom decisions?
Decisions
about licensure, and presumably tenure, would be based on — and here's where things get tricky — «observations of candidates» performance
in real - time
classroom settings and demonstrated
effectiveness in supporting students» academic growth.»
Failing districts often use resources
in a manner that runs counter to the evidence
about the practices that most improve the
effectiveness of teaching and learning
in the
classroom.
He further testified that standardized test scores don't provide enough information
about what goes on
in a
classroom and should therefore not be used to assess a teacher's
effectiveness.
The Advocate Guest column: School choice data doesn't reflect
classroom reality As school choice continues to gain support, we must broaden the conversation
about effectiveness to include more than scores, and we must seek access to more data that can help us determine not just how students are performing
in math and reading, but what effect expanding educational options has on them beyond graduation.
If anyone tries to convince you that you can judge a teacher's
effectiveness or you can help a teacher improve her teaching without observing that teacher
in a normal
classroom situation that person knows little or nothing
about teaching.
There's been chatter
in the educational blogosphere lately
about the
effectiveness of
classroom walkthroughs.
More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement
about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their
classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity
in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher
effectiveness), and the like.
The chapter provides information
about a teacher's background
in professional knowledge, verbal ability, preparation and certification, and experience relative to
classroom effectiveness.
To put the magnitude of this leadership effect
in perspective, quantitative school
effectiveness studies (Hill, 1998) indicate that
classroom factors explain only a slightly larger proportion of the variation
in student achievement -
about a third.
New insights are emerging
about the critical role students play
in maximizing the
effectiveness of formative assessment practices;
about how to help teachers develop and hone their formative assessment skills; and
about how education policy can be used more effectively to deepen and scale up the use of
classroom - based assessment practices.