With the passage
of teacher evaluation legislation across the country, it is clearer than ever that an instructional framework — coupled with protocols around observation and feedback — is central to improving teaching practice and learning for all students.
Building Administrators face a wide variety of challenges: All
new teacher evaluation legislation and procedures; changes in Ed Yes, School Improvement, and AYP requirements; along with ever increasing demands to improve student achievement.
With the new Common Core tests a year away, is this the best time for reformers to focus so much attention in Sacramento
on teacher evaluation legislation incorporating student growth?
There was a point when the Senate passed the Race to the Top legislation — both the charter cap lift and
the teacher evaluation legislation — at a time and in a way that completely took the Assembly by surprise.
After speaking to more than a dozen observers of
the teacher evaluation legislation from various points of view, the answer is a more complex layer of personality rubs, distrust and skepticism, mixed in with the state's longstanding feud between the state's conservative school reform community and teacher unions.
Indiana's
Teacher Evaluation Legislation: Implications and Challenges for Policy, Higher Education and Professional Development
We are seeking an agreement that meets the spirit of
the teacher evaluation legislation in two important ways.