It is a process that requires a delicate
balance with a teacher evaluation system.
Not exact matches
Effective leadership is a pre-requisite for a successful school; in successful schools head
teachers and senior leaders understand the changing needs of their schools and their staff, continually communicate their ideals, vision and expectations, use robust monitoring and
evaluation,
balance support
with challenge and plan ahead to sustain excellence.
The Marzano
Teacher Evaluation Model provides guidance on a calculation system that
balances fairness
with expectations for results.
About half of a
teacher's
evaluation is based on skills and knowledge,
with the
balance on outcomes like student test scores and graduation rates.
So while the
teachers keep barking up the tree that the
teacher evaluations are junk science, when will the
teachers speak up
with the same loud voice in regards to the personal and private data that is being stolen from our kids within Smarter
Balanced Assessments and included in CT's Statewide Longitudinal Data Base, and shared
with 3rd party vendors without parental consent?
The problem is to
balance the reality of today's pressure for test scores and required
teacher evaluation with the changes that can be anticipated during the next two decades.
Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective
teacher evaluation system rather than continue
with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.
We need fair,
balanced and regular
teacher evaluations that allow parents to trust that their child has a
teacher who is passionate about his or her craft, knows how to engage students
with creative lessons, and connects
with students as individual learners.