Educators in case study districts and across the state generally agree that areas of
strength with teacher evaluation include the instructional framework, the conversations about instructional practice, and the focus on growth.
Not exact matches
This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare
with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of
teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies
strengths and weaknesses of different
evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.
Principals who rotate their faculty by
strength during the year, or augment classroom
teachers with online lessons, will find their staffing models a poor fit for
evaluation systems predicated on linking each student's annual test scores to a single
teacher.
Recognizing the challenges associated
with use of student growth and assessment data in the high stakes
evaluation of
teachers and administrators, MASSP in collaboration
with MASA has designed a one day institute April 25, 2018 for central office and K - 12 building administrators,
teacher leaders, and others responsible for managing student data to come together as a team to revisit current practice, identify areas of
strength and challenge within their system, and make plans to further address growth requirements for the future.
Efforts to centralize control —
with decisions about everything from
teacher evaluation, school improvement strategies, and accountability increasingly dictated by Washington — would almost certainly fail and, if they succeeded, would undermine these
strengths.
Nebraska should require that
evaluation systems provide
teachers with adequate feedback about
strengths and areas that need improvement identified in their
evaluations.