Sentences with phrase «true evaluation of the teacher»

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Fred LeBrun on Cuomo's reported about face on linking test results with teacher evaluations: «If what we're being told is true, this reversal by the governor would be a long overdue triumph of common sense over ideological idiocy.

It's true that neither the Regents vote of the governor's task force recommend ending the new teacher evaluation rules altogether.

But can it possibly be true, as reported in his recent post, that the Regents and the New York State Department of Education went to court with the teachers union over whether test scores would count as 20 percent or 40 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation?

First, if they are the sole basis for a teacher evaluation (as is true in many systems now), they may stifle innovation, forcing teachers to conform to particular notions of «effective practice.»

New York Opt - Out Leader Explains the True Costs of the Tests https://vimeo.com/261373078/e139f7bab6 New York Petition to End Test - Based Teacher Evaluation https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/repeal-nys-teacher-evaluatio

True, but the idea of linking teacher performance evaluations, jobs, and salaries to student test scores has no research basis.

The trend is that instead of having such figures with 99 % of teachers being rated as satisfactory or above (see «The Widget Effect» report here), these new and improved teacher evaluation systems are to distribute teachers» evaluation scores around a normal curve, that is more likely true, whereas many more teachers are to be identified for their ineffectiveness.

Although Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, has yet to approve Madison's teacher evaluation plan, it is and will remain as a true example of what communities can do when given the opportunity to make public education a true priority.

While it is true that the bill includes significant changes to Connecticut's teacher tenure and evaluation laws, there are still many people — including many legislators — who apparently don't know or don't understand the ramifications of some of the other incredible policy changes that have been packed deep into Malloy's bill.