Sentences with phrase «objective measure of teacher effectiveness»

For the first time, an objective measure of teacher effectiveness — based on standardized tests that measure student learning — will be part of annual evaluations.

But the Obama administration, which was elected with teacher - union support, has pushed for objective measures of teacher effectiveness, and some union leaders have gradually shifted positions.

Most teachers» unions have not supported these new evaluation laws and will look for any excuse to gut them and go back to the world where there were no objective measures of teacher effectiveness.

Not exact matches

Our objective is to measure the impact of practice - based performance evaluation on teacher effectiveness.

By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to measure student performance, NCLB created objective standards that could be used for other purposes, too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.

Teaching is entirely over scrutinized — what other profession has a multitude of evaluators who sit in the worker's cubicle, office, or warehouse and take verbatim notes of what is seen and heard, then evaluates them with no objective means because there is simply no way to objectively measure a teacher's effectiveness to ALL students.

With EA as your partner, you'll get objective and expertly developed measures of teacher or school effectiveness.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

«I fully recognize that any system of accountability will not be able to perfectly measure teacher effectiveness, but I respectfully disagree with your suggestion that the closest thing states have to an objective measure of student achievement should not be part of the equation.

Changing the current evaluation system to focus on improved student outcomes, including objective measures of student growth, is critical to improving teacher effectiveness, raising student achievement, and meeting the objectives of the federal «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.»

Also recall that one of the key reports that triggered the current call for VAMs, as the «more objective» measures needed to measure and therefore improve teacher effectiveness, was based on data that suggested that «too many teachers» were being rated as satisfactory or above.

No matter how many times our commissioner might say it, these tests are NOT objective measures of a teacher's effectiveness.