Traditional teacher evaluation systems often focus the evaluator's observations on the teacher's behavior.
And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for
traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.
It may require less attention to
traditional teacher evaluation systems than measures of teacher satisfaction and professional growth.
Not exact matches
According to the administration source, instead of a three - year probationary period before
teachers are offered the
traditional job protections, they would need to earn three consecutive «effective» ratings under the state's performance
evaluation system.
But Cincinnati administrators offered to allow current
teachers to return to the
traditional salary schedule if their salary ever decreased under the new plan, according to former associate superintendent Ware, and to exempt first - year
teachers from the rigorous
evaluation system.
You've brought up a major issue with
traditional teacher evaluations, as for years, many
teacher evaluation systems have involved little more than principals collecting static pictures of how well
teachers perform in any given moment.
The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the
teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard
teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new
teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by
traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).
This week, as part of his proposed budget, the governor is tying a four percent increase in the $ 20 billion in subsidies given by the state to
traditional school districts and charter schools to implementation of the new
teacher evaluation system by next year.
These
teachers were evaluated on their «performance» using almost exclusively (except for the 5 % school - level value - added indicator) the same subjective measures integral to many
traditional evaluation systems as well as student achievement / growth on
teacher - developed and administrator - approved classroom - based tests, instead.
Prodded by the Education Department, most states have set up
evaluation systems for
teachers built on the gains of their students on standardized tests, alongside more
traditional criteria like
evaluations from principals.»