«This attempt to
micromanage teacher evaluations from the state level really cuts against that autonomy.
As the «reforms» took hold, the leadership began to
micromanage teachers» classrooms and professional lives:
Not exact matches
Help them strategize a Plan B when Plan A falls through, but do not nag, do not
micromanage, and do not intervene in communications with
teachers, administrators, and college admissions officers.
The Obama administration has used its Race to the Top program and unprecedented, far - reaching conditions for states seeking «waivers» from the No Child Left Behind Act's most destructive requirements as excuses to
micromanage what states are doing on
teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, and much else.
Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to
micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and
teacher evaluation approaches?
He eschews
micromanaging school leaders and instead works alongside them to help them meet the goals of the district's long - range plan and to improve
teacher performance in their schools.
Standardizing inputs into an accountability formula diverts attention from student achievement, by
micromanaging how districts, principals, and
teachers run their classrooms.
But the administration's
micromanaging of basic classroom conditions was a turnoff to many
teachers and did little to win their support for the kinds of changes Klein was seeking.
Julio César Contreras, a former
teacher and principal, eschews
micromanaging the principals he supervises in the Tulsa, Okla., school district.
My school's administrators trust
teachers to use our meeting time to serve our students, and they don't
micromanage us with top - down agendas.
It's good for kids that
teachers are respected and empowered and not
micromanaged by bureaucrats that have never set foot in their classroom, (who have) never met their kids.
More and more major decisions were made behind closed doors, and more and more
teachers felt
micromanaged rather than supported.
To retain good
teachers, we must allow
teachers to make decisions about how they teach and abandon efforts by legislatures to
micromanage their work.
We must respect our
teachers and treat them as professionals, not
micromanage them and impose top down standards.
The Obama administration's unprecedented role in dictating
teacher - evaluation rules to states has resulted in a push to craft statewide systems that
micromanage how every school system evaluates every public - school
teacher.