Many of us like to see the standards as endorsing our own
view of effective teaching and learning.
Despite the intuitive appeal of evaluating teachers based on student learning, heavy reliance on these indicators narrows
our view of effective teaching in potentially damaging ways.
Not exact matches
The Measures
of Effective Teaching (MET) project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array
of measures that will be
viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators
of a teacher's impact on student achievement.
We find it important to note that researchers, who often represent opposing
views about the characteristics that define
effective teaching, do agree on the dangers
of using the VAM student growth model to measure teacher effectiveness.
Teachers are more - likely to base their evaluation
of peers on their own subjective biases, giving thumbs up to those who fit their
view of what
teaching should be than on whether they are actually
effective in improving student achievement.
Through open - ended interviews, Aboriginal students and community members express their
views of the characteristics
of effective teachers and
effective teaching.
and in my limited
view, having spent years
of my life with beginning hockey players, the very best way to quickly
teach someone how to be most
effective with their hockey stick, is to make sure all right handed kids learn FIRST using their stick left - handed.