September 12, 2014
Categories: Strategies, Teachers, Teachers Evaluation
Tags: Common Core, experimentation
Given the nature of the job, school superintendents are master jugglers. Even so, implementing new teacher evaluation systems has been a massive challenge for many of them, because of the demands such a system places on principals, the strain it exerts on labor relations, the inherent difficulty of creating a new vocabulary to describe effective […]
April 11, 2013
Categories: Policies For Teachers, Recipients, Report On Education, Strategies, Teachers, Teachers Evaluation
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MET Project :: Welcome. How can effective teaching beidentified and developed? The Measures of Effective Teachingproject aimed to find out. Two-thirds of American teachers feel that traditional evaluations don’t accurately capture the full picture of what they do in the classroom. They want information that they can trust from measures that are fair and reliable. […]
October 8, 2012
Categories: Strategies, Teachers Evaluation
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By RAJIV SHAH “Our responsibility doesn’t end when a young girl or boy walks through the doors of a classroom. In fact, it’s at that moment our greatest responsibilities begin.”
July 13, 2012
Categories: Teachers Evaluation
Tags: evaluations, teachers
Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems | Brookings Institution. U.S. public schools are in the early stages of a revolution in how they go about evaluating teachers. In years past there was little more than intuition and anecdote to support the view that teachers vary in their quality. The little data that was available came […]
July 13, 2012
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put it, “Today in our country, 99 percent of our teachers are above average.” he evaluation of teachers based on the contribution they make to the learning of their students, value-added, is an increasingly popular but controversial education reform policy. We highlight and try to clarify four areas of confusion […]