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08 Nov 09

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- ‘It looks like teacher differences are really important.’”
- William Sanders
- “value-added
- Tom Kane
- the solution to the problem is right in front of us, if we could just get much more serious about identifying and rewarding effective teaching
- Jesse Rothstein
- potential pitfalls are everywhere
- The Widget Effect,
- “This phenomenon where you get schools where year after year the kids are failing, and the teachers are all deemed to be great — that’s not a recipe for improving learning for kids in poor neighborhoods,” says Dan Weisberg
- principals often have little training in how to review teacher performance, they allot minimal time for evaluations in already overworked days, and there is often so little riding on the outcome that negative evaluations may only sow ill will among a school’s teaching staff, while doing little to improve teacher performance.
- Value-added assessments couldn’t serve as the only basis
- clear learning curve for those in their first few years in the classroom
- Donaldson, the University of Connecticut researcher
- “These people expect to be assessed based on their performance and receive rewards, if they perform well, or sanctions if they do not,”
- “Isn’t that real life? I’m being held accountable and I’m holding principals accountable as school building leaders for educational performance. If they can’t pick their team, how can you hold someone accountable for the results?”
- once three teachers have bid on a position, the building principal must make a hire from that group, regardless of whether he or she thinks any one of them is an ideal candidate to fill the job.
- The guidelines for Race to the Top funding say that any state with a legal ban on the use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations is automatically ineligible for an award

13 Jul 09

The Innovative Educator: 25 Random Things Innovative Educators Can Do To Enhance Teaching and Learning

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20 Apr 09

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