Is It Time To Redesign Our Teacher's Evaluation System?

Why Redesigning Teacher Evaluations are so Important? ... 1. To have better learning and teaching experiences. 2. To build professional ...

Redesigning teacher evaluation: Lessons from a pilot implementation

As districts and schools implement the new teacher evaluation systems, they face sub stantial capacity challenges, including evaluators' time and management of ...

Redesigning Teacher Evaluation: Lessons from a Pilot Implementation

Key Findings · Many evaluators and teachers reported that evaluation took too much time and used too many resources · Initial training helped evaluators feel ...

How to strengthen teacher evaluation systems to improve student ...

If teacher evaluations don't improve student growth, we have a problem. Read our blog to learn about effective evaluation systems and the ...

The Rise and Fall of the Teacher Evaluation Reform Empire

These include: limitations of federal incentives to shape system design; financial and time constraints; lack of buy-in from districts and ...

Teacher Evaluation Reimagined - Teacher-Powered Schools

Of course there is. But why does the vast majority of schools' deploy anachronistic and obsolete systems that are devoid of positive outcomes ...

Teacher evaluation reform was very successful—on paper

America's achievement gaps are shameful—and fixable. · Our optimism about children was combined with extreme cynicism about the systems that ...

Efforts to Toughen Teacher Evaluations Show No Positive Impact on ...

Under the system, teachers who receive “ineffective” scores are subject to dismissal, and teachers who score “minimally effective” or “ ...

Improving the design of teacher evaluation systems

States now have the opportunity to reexamine their teacher evaluation systems under the newfound freedom provided under ESSA, Michael Hansen writes.

Q&A: Kraft on Why Reforming Teacher Evaluation Has—and Hasn't ...

On the whole, I don't think the new evaluation systems have improved the quality of professional development teachers are getting very much. We ...

Seven ways to make improving teacher evaluation worth the work

Some research has found that a meaningful evaluation system can even attract individuals to the profession who might not have otherwise ...

5 Ways to Improve Teacher Evaluation Systems | Edutopia

How might we leverage evaluation to build systems of support that not only help teachers reflect upon and improve their practice but also ensure ...

Teacher Evaluation: WHY It Matters and HOW We Can Do Better

First, teacher quality is positively linked with student learning. This is the primary reason to develop, implement, and continue our efforts to improve teacher ...

A Process for Changing Teacher Evaluation Systems

It could be that your current teacher evaluation process is taking too much time, doesn't provide meaningful data, doesn't support professional ...

Teachers' Perspectives on Evaluation Reform

Small-scale study seeks to provide evidence to inform the debate among policymakers on how teacher evaluation should be changed to yield the ...

Teacher Evaluation Reform: Focus, Feedback, and Fear - ASCD

Teachers also noted that the new evaluation system was, in one teacher's words, "much more comprehensive" and "more thorough" than previous ...

Learning from what doesn't work in teacher evaluation

Policy makers may have the power to design and introduce new teacher evaluation systems, but school leaders have the power to implement those ...

Where teacher evaluation went wrong

1. Using value-added scores to evaluate teachers was a mess. This was the biggie. Our technocratic tendencies did us in. We believed that considering growth in ...

Reaching for Better with Teacher Evaluation and Support

If we take the opportunity to make this a transformative year for our teachers and the profession by focusing on support rather than evaluation, ...

In Practice: Creating a Reflective Teacher Evaluation System - NAIS

The teacher evaluation process is often construed as a daunting, time-consuming exercise that produces little more than a portfolio of work filed away in an ...