Not exact matches
Albuquerque
Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein told the Journal that the poll «indicates that voters are starting to understand the issues
with these high - stakes
teacher evaluations and how this skews what
happens in the classroom to focus narrowly on a single test, rather than on the deep, well - rounded education that students deserve.»
Likewise, all of this was to
happen at the state level, regardless of the fact that the state was no longer required to move forward
with such a
teacher evaluation system post the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; see prior posts about the ESSA here, here, and here).
Her IMPACT
teacher evaluation system gives
teachers the chance to improve, and that is what is
happening with more than 700 D.C.
teachers judged «minimally effective» on last year's IMPACT
evaluations.
Planning and Preparing for Rigor
With all these opportunities to increase the rigor of lessons built into the
Teacher Evaluation Model, where do we ensure that it
happens?
«They are reading the tea leaves and catching up
with what's
happening around the country in terms of merit pay, in terms of performance
evaluation and assessment of
teachers,» Witte said.
«
Teachers are honest in saying these
evaluations do not always reflect what is actually
happening in their classrooms,» said Rosemary Knab, an associate director of research
with the NJEA.