Sentences with phrase «weak teacher evaluation»

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In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

Just 36 percent of them, according to Public Agenda, believe that their tougher scrutiny of weak teachers is leading to tenure denials and only 30 percent report that student achievement is being factored into their teacher evaluations.

Using data captured by that state's intensive teacher evaluation protocol, researchers identified teachers who were weak in one (or more) of a constellation of assessed characteristics, and then matched them with teachers who were strong in corresponding areas.

At those good schools, she said, the state teacher evaluation system could actually get in the way of getting rid of weak teachers.

And, increasingly, we're getting solid evidence of what reforms may help: teacher evaluations based on student performance, higher pay and prestige for good teachers, dismissals for weak teachers.

As a result, principals may be less inclined to dismiss their weak teachers or even to risk offending them with low evaluation scores.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

But now, as part of an agreement reached Thursday, the Education Department and the United Federation of Teachers will put into effect an evaluation system that will bring independent observers into the city's classrooms to monitor the weakest tTeachers will put into effect an evaluation system that will bring independent observers into the city's classrooms to monitor the weakest teachersteachers.

Effective, rigorous teacher - evaluation systems provide substantive, tailored feedback to individual teachers that could be coupled with targeted professional development in teachers» weakest areas in order to improve teachers» practice and, by extension, student achievement.

Evaluation of Effectiveness: Supporting Research Reports strongly suggest that most current teacher evaluations are largely a meaningless process, failing to identify the strongest and weakest teachers.

Washington's new teacher evaluation law may be too weak to satisfy the federal government.

Although the use of some of these successful models has spread, the broad landscape for teacher evaluation has changed little, and impatience with the results of weak systems has grown.

Litigation over value - added teacher evaluations is being conducted in 14 states, and the legal battleground is shifting to the place where corporate reformers are weakest.

Bridge's Measurement and Evaluation team work closely with government bodies to understand which teacher training and support techniques are most effective, and which teacher demographics may indicate a stronger or weaker efficacy in the classroom.

But to suggest that because these observational indicators (artificially) correlate with teachers» value - added scores at «weak» and «very weak» levels (see Notes 1 and 2 below), that this means that these observational systems might «add» more «value» to the summative sides of teacher evaluations (i.e., their predictive value) is premature, not to mention a bit absurd.

Good principals are important to the teacher evaluation process, dismissing weak teachers and replacing them with strong teachers.