This report identifies five key features
of effective teacher evaluation systems that also support effective teaching: (1) start with standards, (2) create performance - based assessments, (3) build a standards - based system of local evaluation, (4) create structures to support high - quality, fair, and effective evaluation, and (5) create aligned professional - learning opportunities.
In addition, some research, including an ongoing study of measures of effective teaching supported by the Gates Foundation, gives credence to the use of student achievement measures when combined with other measures, such as teacher observations and student feedback, as part of
an effective teacher evaluation system.
To improve student performance, he said, schools need
an effective teacher evaluation system and need to be able to get rid of the worst teachers and to reward the best ones.
«Applying more pressure on unions and local districts to finally implement a more
effective teacher evaluation system is a wise move by Governor Cuomo, especially with nearly $ 1 billion in much - needed state aid and federal Race to the Top dollars now at stake.
«Applying more pressure on unions and local districts to finally implement a more
effective teacher evaluation system is a wise move by Governor Cuomo,...
What does international best practice suggest about the design of fair and
effective teacher evaluation systems?
One of the foundations of
an effective teacher evaluation system is for observers to be calibrated in the feedback they are giving to teachers.
In this commentary piece she lays out why the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) testing system fails to provide accurate and useable information about student performance, why it should not be used as part of
an effective teacher evaluation system and why Connecticut's elected officials should defund the SBAC testing madness and use those funds to help address Connecticut's budget crisis.
The report also points the way to a credible, fair, accurate and
effective teacher evaluation system that would improve teaching and learning.
Educator, poet and fellow education blogger, Poetic Justice, addresses the insidious and damaging impact of the corporate education reform industry's notion that standardized test results should be a part of a fair, appropriate and
effective teacher evaluation system.