More focused instructional and teacher quality strategies — like implementing the Common Core standards or improving teaching
through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains.
More focused instructional and teacher quality strategies — like implementing the Common Core standards or improving teaching
through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains, it seems to me.
When pressed, everybody in the system nodded knowingly and said sanctimoniously, «we need to develop
a better evaluation system.»
Tom Kane, the lead researcher, concludes that
the best evaluation system uses a combination of student - growth measures, evaluations, and student surveys.
OF COURSE bad teachers cheat on an evaluation system that allows them to cheat; the solution to this is
a better evaluation system, one that really measures quality.
I applaud the teachers for not using that as an excuse for not creating
a better evaluation system that focuses on improvement.
He said that ineffective teachers all over the city and state should start to feel uncomfortable with
a good evaluation system.
Of those who argue that
a good evaluation system needs to find some portion of teachers ineffective, he said: «That's absurd.
The group that will benefit most from
a good evaluation system will be those teachers who do have the potential of being «really good» but do need some help from a master teacher along the way.
«It was a big step at the beginning to get some consensus from players around the state as to what
a good evaluation system will look like.»
That resulted in
a better evaluation system in the long run, state officials told GAO.
Better evaluation systems are also designed to provide districts with the data they need to make performance management decisions — such as professional development, compensation, and tenure — around teachers and school leaders.
The question is which evaluation system is best and who is going to pay for the costs associated with developing and implementing
a good evaluation system.
«CEA and its members want
a good evaluation system that supports teachers and helps them do an excellent job of teaching students.