According to council members, a sampling of the positives
generated by the new teacher evaluation system include administrators focusing more on teaching and learning, administrators visiting teachers» classrooms more frequently, and Professional Development and Evaluation Committee (PDEC) members often having a say in the local district evaluation process.
Not exact matches
New York's current law — pushed
by Cuomo in April — allows districts to base up to about half of
teachers» annual evaluations on «growth scores»
generated by a complex numerical formula.
Led
by Dr. Alan R. Berkowitz, Head of Education, ELI works to connect students and
teachers with current ecological information, including
new research being
generated by Cary Institute scientists.
But a
newer option is also
generating a lot of the funding: Crowdfunding via online platforms allows
teachers to raise money
by asking their friends and families — and sometimes their students» families — to donate.
By regularly tweaking the model and sharing their experiences,
teachers generate new ideas.
Enter Usable Knowledge — a project that will take
new ideas and innovative solutions
generated by our faculty and our students and put them in the hands of
teachers, principals, superintendents, policymakers, and others who can have a real impact on students, schools, and education more broadly.
But Steve Brill, in yesterday's
New York Times Magazine story, says that it was «a ferocious lobbying campaign
by the state
teachers» union that
generated more than 100,000 e-mail messages and phone calls to Crist's office.»
New Hampshire has led the way
by gaining federal approval to forego state standardized testing for a growing number of districts and replace them with
teacher -
generated, curriculum - embedded local and common performance assessments (Performance Assessment for Competency Education, or PACE).
Just
by listening to one another, we parents, students, and
teacher generate the trust that lets us all support and engage in
new ways to tackle teaching and learning.
Not only is the Common Core testing system created to
generate the false impression that Connecticut and the nation's public education system is failing, but
by tying the Common Core SBAC test results to the
new inept, illogical and counter-productive Connecticut
Teacher Evaluation System, the incredibly expensive «golden nugget» of the corporate education reform industry aims to denigrate
teachers and blow apart what is left of the teaching profession.