First, it is now widely understood that not only are teachers the most important school - related factor in student learning, but
that teacher effectiveness varies drastically.
If
teacher effectiveness varies a lot across subjects, leaders might make more careful distinctions among teaching jobs so teachers are teaching the subjects at which they are best.
Additionally, though individual
teacher effectiveness varies, schools with more new teachers are, on average, not comparable to schools with more experienced teachers.
There's a tendency among education reformers and economists who study data on teacher effectiveness to say, «See,
teacher effectiveness varies dramatically from one teacher to another, even in the same school.
Not exact matches
We have also found that
teachers, schools, and charter management organizations within BCRC
vary in their
effectiveness in supporting the development of non-cognitive skills.
Though exact results
vary from one study to the next, there is little doubt that credentials and additional years of experience (beyond the first few years) matter far less to
teacher effectiveness than they do to
teacher compensation as it is currently designed.
About a decade ago, some researchers reported that
teachers are the most important school - level factor in students» learning, and that that their
effectiveness varies widely within schools (McCaffrey, Koretz, Lockwood, & Hamilton 2004; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain 2005; Rockoff 2004).
It's easy to argue that the current system provides equal pay for unequal work, as two
teachers with the same education and experience can
vary widely in their
effectiveness in the classroom.
As
teachers, we are often asked to «do» a lot more than necessary: memorize standards, plan lessons, prepare for various assessments, call homes, provide a warm environment for our students (and visitors), attend faculty meetings with
varying effectiveness and relevance, grade mounds of papers, and take what little time we have left to eat and sleep, usually less than we should.
And there are tough policy issues —
teacher turnover, measurement of
teacher effectiveness,
varying teacher career paths, variable pay and incentives — that must be addressed in a comprehensive compensation package.
Dr. Min Sun, Assistant Professor in the University of Washington College of Education, shares her recent study on Black
teachers» retention and transfer patterns in North Carolina, and how these patterns
vary by
teacher effectiveness, subjects and school conditions.
* The value - added model that the MET project employs, while common in the literature, is also not designed to address how the distribution of
teacher effects
varies between high - and low - performing classrooms (e.g.,
teachers of ELL classes are assumed to be of the same average
effectiveness as
teachers of gifted / talented classes).
Each decision presents
varying degrees of ethical dilemmas that can result in professional and personal tension which is often evidenced by diminishing
teacher retention and
effectiveness.
While compact activities have continued with joint principal training,
teacher effectiveness initiatives, and Common Core implementation, success has
varied widely.
• Research
varies on the extent to which prep programs explain meaningful variation in
teacher effectiveness.
That problem is more likely when the observers
vary in how they are prepared for observing
teachers or in how they define
teacher effectiveness.
It is clear from the research so far that value - added measures will never be completely stable across time, topics, or student groups, nor would we necessarily want them to be because true
teacher effectiveness likely
varies across these dimensions.
Although the «soft skills» of novice
teachers may improve with training and experience, teaching
effectiveness varies within cohorts of new
teachers, and
effectiveness remains reasonably stable over time.
Teacher observation systems, which are increasingly used to measure teacher effectiveness, also tend to vary in how they assess teachers in meeting the needs of English language learner st
Teacher observation systems, which are increasingly used to measure
teacher effectiveness, also tend to vary in how they assess teachers in meeting the needs of English language learner st
teacher effectiveness, also tend to
vary in how they assess
teachers in meeting the needs of English language learner students.
No longer will our
teachers and principals be treated as interchangeable parts, because the data clearly tell us that
teacher and principal
effectiveness varies widely.
Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that
teachers are not only widely
varying in terms of their
effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify
teachers in terms of their variation in (in)
effectiveness.
Teachers» measured
effectiveness varies significantly when different statistical methods are used.
Schools also
vary in contextual conditions such as parental expectations, neighborhood safety, and peer influences that may directly support learning or that may contribute to school and
teacher effectiveness.
The analysts found that the variation in such value - added scores was quite large, indicating that
teachers do, in fact,
vary substantially in their
effectiveness.
While the programs can be a draw, experts say their
effectiveness varies greatly depending on factors like the quality of
teachers and school leaders.
A study of
teacher testing in North Carolina found a positive relationship between
teacher performance on licensure exams and student learning gains.108 However, other studies have failed to find a significant relationship between
teacher effectiveness and performance on licensure exams.109 Some of that inconsistency may be linked to the quality of the exams, which
vary by state.
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