Sentences with phrase «more meaningful teacher evaluation»

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

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

Not exact matches

«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.»

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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.

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

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.»

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.»

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