Sentences with phrase «in untested grades»

Some are grappling with state versus local control; training and staffing; evaluating teachers who teach in untested grades or subjects; and mitigating concerns about specific evaluation methods.

• It prevents schools and districts from «hiding» less effective educators and programs in untested grades.

Not exact matches

Elliot Regenstein of the Ounce of Prevention Fund offers a sensible solution: an external inspectorate of teaching, particularly in the untested early grades.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

States struggle to find ways to grade teachers in untested subjects such as art and music.

Many principals mentioned they use value - added measures to place teachers in tested subjects and with students in grade levels that «count» for accountability purpose... some principals [also used] VAM [output] to move ineffective teachers to untested grades, such as K - 2 in elementary schools and 12th grade in high schools» (p. 100).