Sentences with phrase «getting teacher evaluation ratings»

The state is even having a tough time getting teacher evaluation ratings from the 61 charter schools that are participating in Race to the Top.

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Half of the teachers in Palm Beach County schools get the highest rating on their performance evaluations — a bigger percentage than anywhere else in South Florida.

The teacher evaluation program that is in place in Los Angeles, according to the petition, «does not comply with the Stull Act» and «perpetuates a fraud on the community» by letting teachers get high evaluation ratings whether or not their students are learning the material listed in the curriculum - content standards.

But in the districts we examined, only teachers at the very tail end of the distribution are dismissed because of their evaluation scores, and it turns out that teachers who get the very worst evaluation scores remain at the tail end of the distribution regardless of whether their classroom observation ratings are biased.

New teacher evaluation systems represent a significant improvement over the bad old days of every teacher getting a satisfactory rating based on a cursory observation by their principal.

Until recently, teacher evaluations were little more than a formality in most school systems, with the vast majority of instructors getting top ratings, often based on a principal's superficial impressions.

Let's use Massachusetts for an example; I would like to see some data on levels of teacher performance, the state tracks what a teacher gets for a rating on an evaluation.

The analysis found that the portion of teacher evaluations that local districts solely control is heavily weighted in most Long Island school districts toward ensuring teachers to score high enough to get an overall «effective» rating.

If there are no consequences for rating a teacher at the top, the middle, or the bottom, if everyone is getting paid the same, then why would a principal spend a lot of time doing a careful evaluation?

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

At closing schools, teachers» ratings on the old checklist evaluation will determine whether they get priority for jobs following their students to other schools or wind up in a substitute pool.

In March, Governor Cuomo, dismayed at the large percentage of teachers getting high ratings, succeeded in tying teacher evaluations and tenure decisions more closely to the tests.

* Under current teacher evaluation systems, it is hard for a teacher who doesn't have top students to get a top rating.

Half of the teachers in Palm Beach County schools get the highest rating on their performance evaluations — a bigger percentage than anywhere else in South Florida.