These training sessions are the school district's first concrete steps toward replacing its age -
old teacher evaluation system, which is widely regarded as a failure.
This week legislators debated Governor Haslam's plan to respond to educator feedback regarding Tennessee's four - year -
old teacher evaluation system.
Under
the old teacher evaluation system, New York City public school teachers were subjectively rated either satisfactory or unsatisfactory and almost all teachers received a satisfactory rating, with fewer than 3 % rated unsatisfactory.
Not exact matches
He's complained that while only one third of students are passing the new tests connected to Common Core, 95 % of
teachers, under a two year
old evaluation system, are rated as effective or highly effective.
In a recent New York Times opinion piece even Bill Gates, a harsh critic of the
old system of
teacher evaluation, cautions against shaming educators by publishing
teacher scores in the media.
New
teacher evaluation systems represent a significant improvement over the bad
old days of every
teacher getting a satisfactory rating based on a cursory observation by their principal.
States must agree to meet Duncan's requirements in order to free themselves from the original dumb requirements: adopt the Common Core standards, participate in a test - development consortium to create Common Core tests, tie
teacher and administrator
evaluations to test scores, develop a new way to humiliate schools — that is, a new accountability
system to replace the
old «failure to meet AYP» label — and use that
system to fire
teachers and close schools.
Mr. Weast, whose district is a finalist this year for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, has said he does not want to change the district's decade -
old «peer assistance and review»
system of
evaluation, which the
teachers» unions strongly support.
Related, three articles were recently published online (here, here, and here) about how in Louisiana, the state's
old and controversial
teacher evaluation system as based on VAMs is resuming after a four - year hiatus.
Under
old - school
evaluation systems, principals might rank
teachers on how often they smiled, how quiet their students were, and the quality of their pre-packaged hand - outs.
The new
evaluation system, which the TEA has been piloting for over a year, would replace the 20 - year old method known as Professional Development and Appraisal System, which consistently produced results reflecting over 95 % ratings of excellence among teachers in spite of student achiev
system, which the TEA has been piloting for over a year, would replace the 20 - year
old method known as Professional Development and Appraisal
System, which consistently produced results reflecting over 95 % ratings of excellence among teachers in spite of student achiev
System, which consistently produced results reflecting over 95 % ratings of excellence among
teachers in spite of student achievement.
The movement for new
evaluations stemmed from research showing nearly all
teachers under
old systems were deemed satisfactory or better.
Leroy stated that even though the new
evaluation system isn't working, we can't go back to the
old system because we favor multiple measures to evaluate
teachers.
A suspension of the use of TVAAS for
teacher evaluation, as called for by PET and others could allow the state to re-examine the
evaluations and phase - in improvements, fully implementing the new
system as Common Core tests replace the
old TCAP and EOC tests.
REACH will replace the current 40 - year -
old outdated
evaluation system that is disconnected from the needs and vision of today's
teachers and classrooms.
But the
old evaluation system that ignores student achievement and finds virtually all
teachers «satisfactory» simply sets the bar too low, lacks objectivity and does not address whether students are actually learning.
A group of parents and education advocates is preparing to sue the Los Angeles school district, demanding that it follow an arcane 40 - year -
old law that requires all California school
systems to link
teacher and principal
evaluations to student performance.
However, the early results in states where new
evaluation systems have been in place for more than a year are not much different from the
old results, as nearly all
teachers have scored in the top tiers.