Sentences with phrase «provide feedback to teachers beyond»

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In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

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.

While these assumptions have an attractive ring to them, they rest on shaky ground, at best; the evidence to date suggests that few principals have made the time and demonstrated the ability to provide high quality instructional feedback to teachers.17 Importantly, the few well - developed models of instructional leadership posit a set of responsibilities for principals that go well beyond observing and intervening in classrooms — responsibilities touching on vision, organizational culture, and the like.18