A council working to develop new
educator evaluation guidelines reached favorable consensus today on a basic framework that will meet the needs of Connecticut teachers.
Not exact matches
The Board of Education is required to establish performance standards and
evaluation criteria for teachers, principals, and superintendents to serve as
guidelines for school divisions to use in implementing
educator evaluation systems.
The Board is required to establish performance standards and
evaluation criteria for teachers, principals, and superintendents to serve as
guidelines for school divisions to use in implementing
educator evaluation systems.
The Board of Education is responsible for establishing teacher, principal and superintendent
guidelines including performance standards and
evaluation criteria to assist school divisions in implementing
educator evaluation systems.
Cohen said, «Given the numerous issues that continue to interfere with a successful
educator evaluation system, teachers — together through CEA — feel it is important to act and take a leadership role in proposing new
evaluation guidelines.»
As teachers around the state are writing, emailing, and calling their legislators, asking them to pass a bill to permanently decouple SBAC from their
evaluations, the committee that advises the State Board of Education on
educator evaluations is still meeting to discuss revisions to other parts of the
evaluation guidelines.
Research done over the past decade, as well as the perspective of Connecticut's public school
educators on the use of the current teacher
evaluation guidelines, has shown time and again how inappropriate it is to base the
evaluation of a teacher on standardized test scores.
PEAC unanimously agreed to recommend new
guidelines for
educator support and
evaluation programs to the State Board of Education.
Donaldson added that the situation has led to «classroom teachers in the pilot schools coming to very different understandings of what is expected of them» under the new state
evaluation guidelines — a system scheduled to be mandated for all
educators next year.
69 percent of teachers and 76 percent of administrators thought that the Connecticut
guidelines for
educator evaluation are clear and assist the PDEC to complete its charge.