The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in
teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.
Not exact matches
While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «
principal walk -
through» styles of class observation, its use is on the rise in new
and proposed
evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom observation is often combined with other measures, such as
teacher value - added based on student test scores.
Here you can find the latest resources to help
teachers and principals progress
through the
evaluation process
and — ideally — make the process a worthwhile professional experience rather than a compliance experience.
Her work includes the development of approaches to elevating
teacher and principal performance
through new
evaluation systems that include student growth.
Applying LEAs must detail their efforts to institute rigorous
teacher and principal evaluation systems, data systems that specifically connect individual
teachers with individual students,
and data systems that compile student - level data from preschool
through higher education.
Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives
through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based
teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards,
and raising charter school caps.
Technology facilitates such practices
through video - based
teacher evaluation modules for aspiring
principals and leader tracking systems, which build a district's capacity to collect
and organize data on experience
and performance to inform staffing
and other decisions.
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Principals tend to go
through the «motions» of
evaluation,
and «all
teachers receive the same «satisfactory» rating.»
I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this,
and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The
teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the
evaluation law: «Tenured
teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence
and considered for termination
through an expedited hearing process.»
How will
principals and others charged with evaluating
and supporting new
teachers be able to use the
evaluation materials to meet the unique needs of new
teachers,
and move them forward
through their first years of teaching?
We successfully advocated for four major reforms: measuring effectiveness
through better
teacher evaluations, adopting world - class standards for our schools
and students, empowering superstar
principals through improved certification paths
and ensuring that money follows the child — no matter where they choose to learn.
Matching
principals» new responsibilities, such as aligning pre-K
through grade 3 learning
and new
teacher evaluations systems, with proper levels of support «would be a dream,» says
principal - in - residence Susan Holiday, also from Prince George's County, Maryland.
The Pennsylvania
Principals Association is currently offering two Act 45 PIL programs to members
and districts: SIMULATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS and IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH TEACHER SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION: APPLYING THEORY INTO PRACTI
and districts: SIMULATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
and IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH TEACHER SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION: APPLYING THEORY INTO PRACTI
and IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING
THROUGH TEACHER SUPERVISION
AND EVALUATION: APPLYING THEORY INTO PRACTI
AND EVALUATION: APPLYING THEORY INTO PRACTICE.
The
principal or a designee (hereinafter «
principal») will conduct the
evaluation process in which the
teacher will actively participate
through the use of self - assessment, reflection, presentation of artifacts,
and classroom demonstration (s).»
To gather division - level information needed to meet this reporting requirement, the
Teacher and Principal Evaluation Collection (TPEC) is available
through SSWS.
As a supplement to the information
and data collected
through the TPEC system, beginning with federal program monitoring conducted in school year 2015 - 2016 for the Title II, Part A, program, the monitoring protocol will include questions designed to gauge the extent to which a school division has: 1) fully embedded the state's required performance standards
and evaluation criteria in the school division's locally - designed
teacher and principal evaluation system;
and 2) adequately used results of
teacher and principal evaluations to inform the school division's professional development offerings
and educator support system.
Dear Colleagues, As you are aware, in the 2015 - 16 school year, the Board of Regents
and I placed a hold on the use of student performance measures based on the grades 3 - 8 ELA
and math State assessments as part of
teacher and principal evaluations which continues
through the 2018 - 19 school... Read More
To meet these requirements, the
Teacher and Principal Evaluation Collection (TPEC) Survey can be accessed
and submitted
through the Department of Education's Single Sign - On for Web Systems (SSWS) portal.