Sentences with phrase «evaluated on classroom observation»

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Schools operating under the alternative contract would be free to evaluate teachers based on student performance and evaluation, as well as classroom observation and other evidence.

We study a sample of midcareer elementary and middle school teachers in the Cincinnati Public Schools, all of whom were evaluated in a yearlong program, based largely on classroom observation, sometime between the 2003 — 04 and 2009 — 10 school years.

After decades of relying on often - perfunctory classroom observations to assess teacher performance, districts from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles now evaluate many of their teachers based in part on VA measures and, in some cases, use these measures as a basis for differences in compensation.

Moreover, the report found that overall, classroom observations — the way most teachers around the country have been evaluated for decades — are highly unreliable on their own.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

(Tenn.) A report out this month marking the results of the first three years of a new program that trains principals to better evaluate teachers using classroom observation found 100,000 additional students were on grade level in math in 2014 as compared to 2010; and 57,000 more were on grade level in science.

Under the Toledo Peer Assistance and Review program, about a dozen «consulting teachers» on leave from their classrooms for three years mentor and evaluate Toledo's first - year teachers through frequent, informal classroom observations and as many as six (usually unannounced) evaluations each semester.

Mastery of knowledge or of a skill should be evaluated based on all of the available evidence, including performance on classroom assessments, assignments, and classroom observations.

Under this system, teachers are evaluated on a four - point scale based on multiple measures that include classroom observations, content standards, and assessments of student growth.

The report also examines principals» capacity to perform teacher evaluations, including their experience conducting classroom observations and formally evaluating teachers before becoming a principal and the support they receive in these areas once on the job.

In the end (which is actually near the beginning of the manuscript), Goldhaber notes that VAMs are «distinct» as compared to classroom observations, because they offer «an objective measure that does not rely on human interpretation of teacher practices, and by design, [they offer] a system in which teachers are evaluated relative to one another rather than relative to an absolute standard (i.e., it creates a distribution in which teachers can be ranked).

The principal would evaluate them based on classroom observations from time - to - time to assess their effectiveness based on what he or she saw them doing.

Until recently, most teachers were evaluated based only on infrequent classroom observations by principals.