Sentences with phrase «more meaningful evaluation»

Jacobson methodology, in distinguishing between improvement and recovery on a standardized measure of general vulnerability to anxiety, provides a stringent but clinically more meaningful evaluation of the efficacy of psychological therapies with GAD than has been available hitherto.

In a growing number of states and school districts, new, more meaningful evaluation systems have focused principals» attention on instruction, prompted valuable discussions in schools Read more about Grading the Graders: A Report on Teacher Evaluation Reform in Education -LSB-...]

Zeynep Memecan, a special education teacher at P.S. 28 Wright Brothers in Washington Heights and a member of the teacher group Educators 4 Excellence, said she wants a more meaningful evaluation than the two - tier rating system of either «satisfactory» or «unsatisfactory.»

«The purpose of our current pilot is to collaboratively develop more meaningful evaluation systems that will help all educators continuously improve their practice,» Shulman wrote to the pilot districts.

For others, it was an opportunity to begin a collaborative dialogue with local stakeholders to build a more meaningful evaluation system together.

It provides a much more meaningful evaluation than a dermatologist's eyeball, which must rely on the vague, ambiguous clues offered by the surface appearance of the skin.

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«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

Obviously we await the details of the legislation, which are important, and the decisions that face the State Education Department will be critical: this evaluation system must do more than simply exist — it must be meaningful.

«We are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing NY standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» said Karen Magee, President of NYSUT.

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The group's recommendations call for an expanded definition of college and career readiness, continued funding for each discipline, rigorous evaluation of those funded activities, and more meaningful accountability for student achievement across subjects.

Finally, here are some of their important recommendations, as related to all of the above, and to create more meaningful teacher evaluation systems.

Rubrics also make meaningful feedback and evaluation more efficient.

This compliance - driven approach is more concerned with checking off boxes than providing meaningful evaluation.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel focused on trying to improve the quality of public education, with a longer school day and more meaningful teacher evaluations.

Rather than the same old, entrenched fights you read about in the paper, we're talking about the changes that would make evaluations more meaningful to teachers, which will result in more positive experiences for our students.

Not only will principals finally receive more meaningful feedback on their performance but the union also agreed that student growth data — the major sticking point in the ongoing fight over teacher evaluations — could be one factor on which principals are rated.

In addition these scores show us that we need to continue to give teachers more meaningful support and feedback through the City's new evaluation system, Advance.

Beginning in 2008, CPS piloted the Excellence in Teaching Project, a more robust evaluation system that was the first step in moving beyond the rudimentary checkboxes that failed to delineate great teaching or to provide meaningful feedback to teachers and administrators.

«I think it will make me a better teacher because it will make the evaluations more meaningful, and put more teeth behind them,» Ms. Bain said.

The Florida Education Association gathered 17 top teachers and together they came up with an evaluation system that would provide more meaningful, productive evaluations that teachers could use to improve, would provide ongoing support and opportunities for teacher promotion, and would even allow for a fair, equitable system of merit pay.

As states implement more meaningful teacher - evaluation systems, they are building the foundation for other policies — including compensation and career ladders — based on the information gained from those systems.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

Yet we are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing New York standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee said in a statement.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

Likewise, technology can make evaluations less painful — and more meaningful — for both principals and teachers.

During this session the presenter will demonstrate how the Group Math and Diagnostic Evaluation (GMADE) help to make reading more meaningful to each and every student, which will improve the overall quality of instruction.

Consistent evaluation, paired with meaningful data analysis can help you identify why certain teachers experience more success in different areas than others.

«Tennessee and Washington, D.C., are out in front on meaningful teacher and principal evaluations, and the NAEP results show that those evaluations, along with the shift to the Common Core, are helping students learn more.»

Best practice in risk communication offers insights ranging from how to present a quantitative evaluation of multiple risk management options, to more general insights about problem framing and presenting probabilities, consequences, and uncertainties in a format that is intuitively meaningful to diverse audiences (Morgan et al 2002).

Associate Reviews: Performance Standards Make Them Valued, Not Dreaded is an article that explains how you can make performance evaluations more meaningful and valuable for associates and for the firm.

Finally, effective programs utilized rigorous evaluation methods and examined meaningful outcomes.115 In the field of home visiting, many programs lack one or more of these critical elements, a shortcoming that can be useful for understanding why some programs failed to show positive effects.

The purpose of this evaluation was to determine client and staff response to the Safe Haven Program to elicit recommendations from families currently participating, former participants, and staff as to how the program could be made more meaningful to the local African - American population.