Sentences with phrase «concerns about their evaluations»

Are you or the teachers at your school concerned about evaluation initiatives?

Michelle King, District 3 superintendent, said she investigated the matter, attending a meeting at the school in which the entire faculty aired concerns about evaluations and other issues.

Your last letter acknowledged our mutual concern about the evaluation of teachers by student test data.

However, many teachers voice concerns about their evaluations being tied to student achievement given the multiple variables that affect student achievement.

[105] However, by the time of the Social Justice Report 2005, my concerns about the evaluation had not diminished, and I reported that:

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Any issues that would have warranted an in - home child custody evaluation have already been explored, and unless you have a true reason to be concerned about visitation safety, projecting an air of calm confidence will go a long way toward helping to ease your child's pre-visit jitters.

If you feel your daughter's behaviors are not typical for her age or have other concerns about her development contact your local early intervention preschool program for an evaluation.

Go for an evaluation as soon as you are aware of symptoms, or have concerns about concussion.

If you have concerns about your baby's development or if you answer yes to any of these questions, please consult with your child's pediatrician to determine if an evaluation by a pediatric Occupational Therapist or Physical Therapist is warranted.

With worldwide concern about obesity levels in mind, the new regulations call for an evaluation of the need for these products by the European Food Safety Authroity.

So even if you are only concerned about your child's language skills, we are still required to complete a full developmental evaluation.

If after a month you still have concerns about your son's behavior and he is not settling into his new routine or his behaviors have become worse, you can look into visiting with a child psychologist for an evaluation to rule out any underlying behavioral issues.

I recommend that parents always trust their instincts and seek evaluation from a board - certified physician or other appropriate source for questions or concerns about their individual child's health and development.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

The governor said he's open to temporarily changing the state's teacher - evaluation system to account for concerns about the Common Core, but said a full moratorium would be «overkill.»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said state leaders might leave any concerns about teacher evaluations to the State Board of Regents, an education policymaking panel.

The group called Westhill Elementary Schools Together, or «WEST,» is concerned about the way the tests are constructed and potentially used by the state in connection with teacher evaluations.

New York City education administrators should try to learn from the mistakes of their counterparts in Tennessee where a rush to implement a complicated new teacher evaluation system has overwhelmed administrators with paperwork and demoralized staff members concerned about being improperly and unfairly rated.

A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

Flanagan said his colleagues «have a deep and abiding concern» about Cuomo's original proposal for amending the evaluation system, which would have increased the ratings» reliance on standardized testing to 50 percent.

Before the evaluation, their parents completed questions soliciting concerns about their child's behavior and development.

Finally, Chinese researchers at home or away face global concerns about their science that are rooted in the country's evaluation system.

Along with the impressive plans and big numbers, however, are concerns expressed by the international and Chinese scientific communities about the funding, evaluation, and training of Chinese researchers.

Perfectionism is defined as a «striving for flawlessness and the setting of exceedingly high standards for performance, accompanied by tendencies for overly critical self - evaluations and concerns about negative evaluations by others».

During the past year alone, concerns about oversight of high - containment laboratories; vetting of personnel (personnel reliability); the efficacy of security measures in place for the select agent program; medical countermeasure research, development and distribution; bioterrorism and pandemic influenza preparedness; misuse of beneficial biological research and technologies; and microbial forensics have generated several policy evaluations and prompted the development of policy recommendations and legislation.

However, Neal becomes concerned about Scott's sudden change in appearance and insistence that he's Santa, and he forces him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Most of the issues about which they have concerns — whether it's standards, assessments, teacher evaluation, or something else — are policies developed at the state or federal level.

Some rich folks get concerned about testing, President Barack Obama makes a speech, says there is too much testing, and states start rolling back not just testing but also the evaluation systems tied to it.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Meanwhile, a broader backlash against reform, fueled by concerns about over-reliance on standardized tests, the accuracy of new evaluations, and the efficacy of performance - based incentives, has led some states to reverse course.

New teacher evaluations were rolled out alongside the Common Core State Standards and related exams, leaving teachers concerned about how the harder tests will affect their performance evaluations in the future.

Teachers and principals will be concerned about the obligation of states to develop evaluation systems for them that incorporate measures of student progress.

To be sure, mistakes were made: Not understanding the limitations or unintended consequences of federal leadership on education; a disastrous, ill - timed excursion into teacher evaluation reform; a technocratic impulse that was insufficiently sensitive to parents» concerns about issues like student privacy; and on and on.

Here's hoping that i3 can change that, without raising new concerns about groupthink, the influence of politically connected players, or the tyranny of overly narrow evaluation metrics.

The paper is clever, and fine as far as it goes, but leaves me concerned about the direction of teacher evaluation policy.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

Interestingly enough, nearly every time that I ask these kinds of questions, the teacher points out the one thing that I was concerned about, and I can simply respond with excerpts from the evaluation notes that corroborate our mutual understanding.

If you've been reading my blog, you're aware that I've expressed concerns about Race to the Top, i3, Florida Senate Bill 6, overly enthusiastic claims for the power of value - added teacher evaluation, and so on.

As Sandi Jacobs, managing director of state policy for the National Council on Teacher Quality, said, «There wasn't enough concern about how these things [the Common Core and teacher evaluation] were running down the path together until the tests became an issue.»

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Let's take a closer look at some of these oh - so - common questions and concerns about program evaluation within corporate training that emerged in my conversations.

They attribute that to concern about tying scores on Common Core - aligned tests to teacher evaluations.

They can protest this characterization all they want, but one reason we've heard so much about pre-K in the past few years is that, as far as many reformers were concerned, the big and interesting fights on teacher evaluation had already been won.

While I certainly agree that the evaluation system needed significant improvement, I have some concerns about the Commissioner's statements.

You'd think the respondents would be more concerned about that, given their very negative take on Washington's efforts to improve teacher evaluation — with 81 % strongly believing that federal policy should not «support teacher evaluation systems that rely significantly on» student test scores.

And you will be less concerned about asking whether evaluations should target short - term testing gains versus some other outcome.

Evaluations should be diagnostic in nature, drawing on data about program quality to inform inquiries into the sources of success and improvement, as well as areas of concern.