Sentences with phrase «about teacher performance»

But some observers continue to view them as the most «objective» sources of information about teacher performance.

Therefore, drawing policy conclusions about teacher performance pay on the basis of this analysis is not warranted.

People want to hear more about teacher performance and the academic achievement of their students.

School districts also are under increasing pressure to gather data about teacher performance as part of a related effort to address teacher tenure and in some cases are tied to decisions about pay increments.

And yet there you stand, arm in arm with union bosses and — quelle horreur — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, all in an effort to hide vital information about teacher performance from parents and the public.

School districts continue to make high - stakes decisions about teacher performance based on how well students perform on state mandated...

Now, this is all within a pretty limited context of thinking about teacher performance in terms of value - added on student test scores, and that could be missing a lot about what makes a teacher great.

But in order to have the impact on student learning that supporters of reform intend, evaluation needs to be accompanied by insightful feedback about teacher performance that leads to a strategic set of professional - learning activities to help educators improve their practice.

The bottom - line criticism of the reviewer is that «drawing policy conclusions about teacher performance pay on the basis of this analysis is not warranted.»

Until then, outdated processes for reaching conclusions about teacher performance need to be reconsidered and re-conceptualized.

The better the measure of effectiveness — the closer it is to the truth about teacher performance — the less it will misidentify teachers.

[27] Clearly, a principal who cares mainly about academic achievement thinks about teacher performance differently than one who prefers a caring personality.

«Large majorities wanted to hear about teacher performance (73 percent), followed by student academic performance (71 percent), school crime or violence (69), school curricula (68 percent), school finances (66 percent) and school reform (66 percent),» the survey found.

Kentucky should make aggregate school - level data about teacher performance — from an evaluation system based on instructional effectiveness — publicly available.

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

If decisions about teacher performance are delegated to local leaders, will those leaders have the same ability to make the kinds of human capital decisions that state - based teacher effectiveness systems have provided?

When given the option of expressing neutrality on the issue (as another randomly chosen half of the sample was), 60 percent of the public still says it supports the publication of information about teacher performance, while only 13 percent is opposed, the remaining 27 percent taking the neutral position.

An even bigger gap between teachers and the public emerges on the desirability of releasing information about teacher performance to the public at large.

Duncan's comments mark the first time the Obama administration has expressed support for a public airing of information about teacher performance — a move that is sure to fan the already fierce debate over how to better evaluate teachers.

School - level Data About Teacher Performance: Maine does not publicly report school - level data about teacher performance.

Kentucky does not require districts to publicly report aggregate school - level data about teacher performance, nor does the state collect and publicly report most of the other data recommended by NCTQ.

In addition, this release is only to be pushed back until around March, even though the data to be released are about teacher performance from the 2012 - 13 school year.