The software
promotes teacher effectiveness by understanding the information leaders need to make managing staff performance an efficient and effective process.
But in 2009, when the foundation announced it would award $ 335 million to a number of school districts and charter schools to
promote teacher effectiveness, the union response was a far cry from the anticorporate rhetoric it regularly delivers to its internal audience.
From Qualifications to Results:
Promoting Teacher Effectiveness through Federal Policy.
In several of our states, leaders want to know their progress on innovations to
promote teacher effectiveness.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will waive 10 NCLB provisions — including the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, sanctions for low - performing schools, the 20 percent set - aside for school choice and tutoring, and highly qualified teacher improvement plans — for states that establish higher standards, create differentiated accountability systems,
promote teacher effectiveness, and reduce paperwork burdens.
Our professional development provides charter schools with access to excellent training for educators and networks schools together to
promote teacher effectiveness and professional growth.
The goal of the Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters is to recognize leaders that create schools designed to
promote teacher effectiveness.
The Gates Foundation has avoided systematic efforts to achieve equity of resources for schools and the children who attend them; instead, it asserts that teacher effectiveness is the best lever in this regard, and it has focused most of its research and advocacy on promoting public investment in systems that measure and
promote teacher effectiveness.
What kinds of professional development and support are in place in your school to
promote teacher effectiveness?
Not exact matches
The history of the organization illustrates its
effectiveness in working for the rights of
teachers and students in
promoting public education.
The next round must get to measuring
teacher effectiveness based on student achievement,
promoting professional development that is based on research and effective practice and improves performance, providing incentives for
teachers who are effective, and requiring removal of
teachers who, even with solid professional development, can't or don't improve.
And while early data are promising, it is too early to be certain as to the
effectiveness of online
teacher education in
promoting student learning.
The foundation also announced today that as part of its plan to
promote and support effective teaching it is investing $ 45 million in research to better understand what makes a
teacher effective and how such
effectiveness can be measured.
Historically, state and local policies have tended to treat all
teachers as if they were equally effective in
promoting student learning, 1 but a good deal of evidence amassed over the past decade documents enormous variation in
teacher effectiveness.2 The
effectiveness of a
teacher is indeed the most important school - based factor determining students» levels of academic achievement, yet few state and district policies reflect this finding.
As advocates pore over the results of
teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve
teachers» working conditions and
promote teacher and leadership
effectiveness.
«As school leaders,» write the study's authors, «administrators are charged with creating an organizational climate that
promotes individual commitment and organizational
effectiveness (e.g., providing adequate resources and professional development, giving meaningful feedback and encouragement, and including
teachers in decision making).»
Promoting High Quality
Teacher Evaluations in Michigan: Lessons from a Pilot of Educator
Effectiveness Tools
ASCD worked closely with Sen. Reed's staff, providing both background information on effective professional development and expert input on
promoting and evaluating
teacher effectiveness, in crafting this bill.
Despite some concerns about high - stakes uses of the measures, there is strong evidence that they provide important information about
teachers»
effectiveness in
promoting student achievement growth.
The evaluation brief synthesizes two recent NCEE impact studies, which evaluated key strategies that can be funded through the federal
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants and its successor program, Read more about Key Strategies to
Promote Educator
Effectiveness -LSB-...]
Fund #TitleIIA to support increased student achievement by
promoting strategies to positively impact
teacher and principal
effectiveness.
School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that
promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and
teacher effectiveness.
It brings local unions together to
promote progressive reform in education and
teacher unions, build relationships among key stakeholders and to cultivate the next generation of
teacher leaders to influence education policymaking and improve teaching
effectiveness and student learning.
NCTR described several ways for states and districts to
promote the expansion of
teacher residencies as a strategy to improve teacher effectiveness in our July 2017 report, Recommendations for State Support of Effective Teacher Resid
teacher residencies as a strategy to improve
teacher effectiveness in our July 2017 report, Recommendations for State Support of Effective Teacher Resid
teacher effectiveness in our July 2017 report, Recommendations for State Support of Effective
Teacher Resid
Teacher Residencies.
The history of the organization illustrates its
effectiveness in working for the rights of
teachers and students in
promoting public education.
One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate
teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New
Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate
teachers «based on their
effectiveness in
promoting student achievement.»
While leaving districts flexibility to decide their own pay scales, states should
promote compensation tied to
teacher effectiveness and discourage districts from basing pay solely on criteria not correlated with
teacher effectiveness.
These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach
teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other
teachers, assesses
teachers»
effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration
teacher, who models excellent teaching for
teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to
promote teacher leadership —
teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other
teachers, lead
teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new
teachers.12
Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to
promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new
teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «
effectiveness» of educators.
Support for
teacher learning and evaluation needs to be part of an integrated whole that
promotes effectiveness during every stage of a
teacher's career.
Districts also can use these
effectiveness indicators to recognize outstanding
teachers, to
promote the most effective
teachers into career categories, to focus intensive help for
teachers in the lower
effectiveness levels, and — if performance doesn't improve — for dismissal.
The NTC partners with states and districts to implement new
teacher induction programs, works with state policymakers to
promote policy environments supportive of new
teacher induction, and contributes to the national dialogue on
teacher effectiveness.
Teaching Matters believes such engagement will
promote the best
teacher effectiveness policies and practices, and that the quality of teaching is the single most important school - related factor contributing to student success.
Unfortunately, according to the US Department of Education's report, Providing Effective
Teachers for All Students: Examples from Five Districts, traditional methods of identifying and promoting educators» effectiveness - such as credentials from education and experience - aren't reliable indicators of a teachers» ability to impact student achi
Teachers for All Students: Examples from Five Districts, traditional methods of identifying and
promoting educators»
effectiveness - such as credentials from education and experience - aren't reliable indicators of a
teachers» ability to impact student achi
teachers» ability to impact student achievement.
In addition, and as directly related to VAMs, in this study researchers also found that each rating from each of the four domains, as well as the average of all ratings, «correlated positively with student learning [gains, as derived via the Nevada Growth Model, as based on the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) model; for more information about the SGP model see here and here; see also p. 6 of this report here], in reading and in math, as would be expected if the ratings measured
teacher effectiveness in
promoting student learning» (p. i).
Consequently, value - added from one test might not fully reflect a
teacher's
effectiveness at
promoting learning.
The proposals, aimed squarely at increasing the
effectiveness of
teachers, would be the most far - reaching change in years in how the Los Angeles Unified School District decides which
teachers to
promote and retain.
The Rethink Ed SEL for ALL Learners platform is a school - based social and emotional learning (SEL) program for enhancing the psychosocial health and well - being of
teachers and students while creating an optimal learning environment that
promotes academic, social, and personal
effectiveness.
The
Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme (TEEP) is a teacher CPD programme, which aims to promote pupil learning by changing teachers» classroom pr
Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme (TEEP) is a
teacher CPD programme, which aims to promote pupil learning by changing teachers» classroom pr
teacher CPD programme, which aims to
promote pupil learning by changing
teachers» classroom practice.
CEPA research informs questions such as how to measure
effectiveness, the impact of programs intended to
promote teacher and leader
effectiveness, the impact that effective
teachers and leaders have on student outcomes, and other issues.
Assessment of a Parenting Education Program: Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect in At - Risk Families Through Parent Education and Support (PDF - 730 KB) O'Rourke (2014) Assesses the
effectiveness of a parenting education program offered at Saint Joseph Parenting Center (SJPC) in Stamford, CT in
promoting positive parenting behaviors through parenting education, and assesses the level of client satisfaction with the
teachers, staff, and overall experience at SJPC.