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Teacher evaluations: Too much change too fast?
- 10-27-2011
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Blog by Emily Richmond/The Educated Reporter
The National Council on Teacher Quality has a new report out today, tracking teacher evaluation models and reform across the country. (For the full report you can go to the NCTQ web site.) What's remarkable to me, as evidenced by the report's findings, is just how fast this train is moving. Two years ago, annual teacher evaluations were mandatory in just 15 states. Today, that number stands at 24 states and the District of Columbia. Additionally, those evaluations "including not just some attention to student learning, but objective evidence of student learning in the form of student growth and/or value-added data," according to the NCTQ report. I was surprised to learn from the report that both Indiana and Tennessee make it clear that a poor evaluation is grounds for dismissal. But neither state has specific policies as to how those low-scoring teachers will be helped to improve their performance. To not give teachers a chance to improve -- or provide any support for them to do so -- doesn't seem fair. (more...)
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