Sentences with phrase «to evaluate teacher performance»

I was wary of ever using such scores as a basis for evaluating teacher performance.

So evaluating teacher performance is the simplest way to see if they are able to do that.

Using alternative student growth measures for evaluating teacher performance: What the literature says.

Earlier this month, the school district and the teacher's union agreed to use student test data in evaluating teacher performance, but they never agreed on exactly how much it would count toward calculating teacher effectiveness.

We also left ourselves open to grossly misleading claims about our policies, such as the myth that we advocated evaluating teacher performance based on test scores alone.

There are approximately 700 school districts in New York State and every one of them needs to have a system of evaluating teacher performance in place by January 2013.

Edutopia: Am I correct in stating that administrators evaluate teacher performance by using authentic assessment strategies like the UbD supervisor form and then they provide critical feedback, similar to what the teachers should be providing their students?

The state Education Department and Buffalo's school district tried to ratchet up the pressure in advance of a critical meeting today of the city teachers union on the stalled system for evaluating teacher performance at six troubled schools.

New York City, alone, has almost $ 60 million in federal School Improvement Grants at risk after its negotiations with the United Federation of Teachers around a pilot system for evaluating teacher performance broke down this past Friday.

Mattituck - Cutchogue Superintendent Anne Smith said the district «takes assessments seriously and administers them with fidelity» and uses the results to help evaluate teacher performance and student academic growth.

It also eliminates the requirement under the Obama administration's NCLB waiver program that states evaluate teacher performance based on, in part, student test score growth.

Marshall's work focuses on how our school leaders can successfully evaluate teacher performance.

(Calif.) School districts will have more time to evaluate teacher performance before offering permanent status or letting them go under an Assembly bill announced Tuesday.

These included signing on to the Common Standards effort, facilitating the unfettered growth of charter schools, and allowing for the possibility of including student test standardized test results in evaluating teacher performance.

The issue of evaluating teacher performance has been in the news a lot lately, including yesterday, when a school in Rhode Island fired every one of the educators in the building.

Originally enacted by the California Legislature in 1971, the Stull Act — California's existing teacher evaluation law — requires school districts to evaluate teachers performance by considering student progress toward district and state academic standards, as measured by state - adopted standardized tests.

IMPACT articulates clear standards for effective instruction, provides instructional coaches to help teachers meet those standards, and evaluates teacher performance based in large part on direct, structured observations of teachers» classroom practices in addition to evidence of student learning.

Rooted in just a single measure for evaluating teacher performance, today's evaluation system is based on a checklist of subjective, surface level details such as references to clothing, administrative tasks and bulletin boards.

«The framework initially proposed by the State Board of Regents provides us a critical opportunity to create a system that evaluates teacher performance based on multiple measures of effectiveness — including student outcomes.

Granted, there are mechanisms in place to evaluate teacher performance, but many of these value - added measures feel more like punch lists than professional reviews.

This includes using it to identify who is or isn't a good teacher — at times — performance pay keeps cycling back into educational discussions, and the tests are not designed to evaluate teacher performance,» she says.

In the Odyssey School in Denver, Colorado (an Expeditionary Learning [EL] school), the school's director Marcia Fulton has launched an innovative approach to evaluating teacher performance.

These are just some of the questions that surround the issue of whether student test scores should be used to evaluate teacher performance.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

Common reform policies included the use of objective student data to evaluate teacher performance, more frequent classroom observations, and the rollout of performance - based incentives (or disciplinary action).

Improving methods for evaluating teacher performance and using the resulting information to change teaching practice has been a focus of recent reform efforts.

Administrators must use the results of the highly aligned assessments to evaluate teacher performance and provide them constructive feedback.

The Pillars also address recommendations to address how California can evaluate teacher performance in the classroom, a critical component to ensuring quality teachers are in the classroom.

The most - positive aspect of Kline's plan lies with its requirement that states develop teacher evaluation systems that use student test score growth data (along with other «multiple measures) in evaluating teacher performance.

Just as we should compensate teachers based on more than the number of years of service, we should be able to evaluate teacher performance and impact fairly and transparently.

There is insufficient evidence to support using test measures that were never meant to be used to evaluate teacher performance.

Now they're used to evaluate teacher performance and gauge the effectiveness of schools, ultimately determining their fate.

A Measured Approach: Value - Added Models Are a Promising Improvement, but No One Measure can Evaluate Teacher Performance, Measuring Up, Daniel Koretz, American Educator, Fall 2008, AFT

But there's a fundamental problem here and that's the fact that many of the state tests that are being considered as a means of evaluating teacher performance were never designed to do that.

Evaluating a teachers performance is an process that should be so transparent that all citizens understand the process as well as particpate in the process.

She spoke out against Florida's model for evaluating teacher performance, known as VAM (Value - Added Model)-- a method of measuring performance that takes into account where students start from.

That means it may be easier for the district to measure and evaluate teacher performance based on students» overall performance instead of focusing on state tests.

TCTA has consistently opposed attempts to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores based on the weight of research showing that using student test performance to evaluate teacher performance is invalid, unreliable and unfair.

On the surface at least, President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney see eye to eye on a number of key education issues: Both politicians place great store in standardized testing to evaluate teacher performance and student progress, and both generally back former President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind program.

«It's undeniable that the push for more testing shined light on things we didn't know before,» said Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Center on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group that presses to use student test scores as one key metric for evaluating teacher performance.

The real question, then, is whether this analysis can improve the methods we use to evaluate teacher performance.

Via The Los Angeles Times By the Editorial Board A new study out of USC and the University of Pennsylvania finds that value - added measurements — a way of using student test scores to evaluate teacher performance — aren't a very good way of judging teacher quality.

They talk about «a process of reflection, judgement and action» using «multiple sources of evidence» to evaluate teacher performance.

Using alternative student growth measures for evaluating teacher performance: what the literature says

Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says is a resource from the Institute of Education Sciences and the Regional Education laboratory that looks at approaches to alternative methods of evaluating student achievement in order to measure teacher performance.

Bay Area News Group's Joyce Tsai reported in the Mercury News on the hearing, in which the Petitioners — a group of California teachers, parents and concerned taxpayers — asked Judge Barry Goode to compel 13 California school districts to comply with the Stull Act, a longstanding state law that requires school districts to evaluate teacher performance based, in part, on student progress.