That evaluation system, known as APPR, required that 20 percent of an educator’s evaluation be based on student standardized test scores. Now, New York Schools Chancellor Merryl Tisch wants to ...

Answer Sheet The fundamental flaws of ‘value added’ teacher evaluation December 23, 2012 By Valerie Strauss ...

The Mentor Teacher Evaluation Form should be completed during week 6 and week 13 of the placement. The form (please see Appendix D) requires the mentor teacher to evaluate the teacher candidate ...

Applying lessons from the MET project and similar work, there are some best practices that all HR directors and other education leaders should consider around teacher evaluation. 1.

In Georgia, teacher evaluation using the existing voluntary state model hinges primarily on each evaluator’s interpretation rather than clear standards, said Barbara Lunsford, the state manager ...

Like school districts all across the country, California’s are figuring out the best way to evaluate teachers. The stark reality is that some districts will be successful in this, and others will not.

It struggles with declining enrollment, poverty and academics. Teacher evaluations from 2014-2015 show 51.4 percent of teachers were rated highly effective and 48.2 percent of teachers were effective.

He was there to conduct an observation of one of his teachers, a process Shumpert said has become much easier since the school switched to an electronic system, which allows him to choose categories ...

The district's appointed Board of Managers is expected to consider next month a proposed teacher evaluation system that would determine a teacher’s rating based on classroom observations (45% ...

Portland's current teacher evaluation form, unchanged since the 1980s, is out of sync with other districts' and skirts many teaching practices that matter most to student achievement, both sides ...

Rebecca Sellers, an eighth-grade English teacher at the Lester Pre-K-8 school in Memphis, looked wary as she walked into the teachers’ lounge on a Monday afternoon last fall. The previous week, the ...