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- Purpose: Making sure the teacher is covering the correct material and doing
so in a clear and coherent manner.
- Race to the Top Initiative 2009: Goal was to improve teacher efficiency, giving
grants to states who are performing well.
- Pros: 2005 in Louisiana- The state takes student test scores in grades 4-9
and traces them back to their teachers, who are then traced back to whatever
institution gave them their training and certification(Navarette, 2011, para. 8).
Student Polls/Surveys
- Course Evaluations: Students are afforded the opportunity to give feedback
to their school on their educators and classes(Molloy is an example of this).
- This feedback must be carefully considered but is a valuable tool, given the
students are the main recipient of the educators teaching, and the focus of
the education system
Colleague Review
- Teacher to teacher, much like peer review, where co-workers guide and
assist each other in their efforts.
- The PAR program requires all new teachers to work with a consulting, or
mentor, teacher. Struggling teachers can enter the program either voluntarily
or through administrator recommendation(Hertling, 1999, para. 8).
- Results: Eighty percent of new teachers are still on the job five years later,
while in other urban districts without peer review, 50 percent of new hires
leave after five years(Hertling, 1999, para. 8).
Classroom Observations
- This is when an individual sits in on a class session, and observes a teacher.
- Gives the observer a first-hand look at the teacher, seeing their performance
for themselves.
- Results: Student math achievement was .09 standard deviations higher for
teachers whose overall evaluation score was 1 standard deviation
higher(reading was .08)(Taylor & Tyler, 2012, para. 12).
In Conclusion
- We can all agree that teachers need to be evaluated and held accountable,
but how?
- We have actually seen effective and ineffective teachers over the course of
time and have thought about how we would approach our possible job
References
Hertling, E. (1999). Peer Review of teachers. Teacher Librarian, 27(2), p.26.
Culbertson, J. (2012). Putting the Value in Teacher Evaluation. Phi Delta Kappan
Magazine, 94(3), pp. 14-18.doi:10.1177/003172171209400304
Taylor, E.S. (2012). Can Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching? Education Next,
12(4), pp.78-84.
Strauss, V. (2015, April). How students with top test scores actually hurt a
teachers evaluation: You wont believe how convoluted -- and, frankly,
ridiculous - - this teacher evaluation process is. Washington Post- Blogs.