Skip to main content

Home/ Teacher Professional Development/ Group items tagged evaluation

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Teachers Without Borders

3 Teacher Evaluation Mistakes to Avoid - Washington, DC, United States, ASCD EDge Blog ... - 3 views

edge.ascd.org/...127586.html

professional educators teacher development teacher evaluation

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • Teachers Without Borders on 25 May 12
     
    School districts across the US are creating new teacher evaluation systems that are supposed to better identify ineffective teaching and, in some cases, tie a teacher's rating to student performance. My quarrel is not with the evaluation systems themselves however. My quarrel is with how they are being implemented. Here are three of the most common mistakes I've seen:
Teachers Without Borders

Foundation Center - PubHub - Brookings Institution - Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher... - 1 views

foundationcenter.org/...pubhub_item.jhtml

teacher education teachers evaluation

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Teachers Without Borders on 13 May 11
     
    Describes how state or federal governments could reward exceptional teachers based on a uniform standard across various district-level teacher evaluation systems by determining the systems' reliability in predicting future performance. Includes Q & A.
Colleen Broderick

http://metproject.org/downloads/MET_Feedback%20for%20Better%20Teaching_Principles%20Pap... - 2 views

metproject.org/...eaching_Principles%20Paper.pdf

Gates Foundaion teaching teacher evaluation

shared by Colleen Broderick on 14 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Colleen Broderick on 14 Jan 13
     
    Nine principles for using measures of effective teaching
Teachers Without Borders

BTW, teen writing may cause teachers to :( - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08 - Cached
  • It's a teachable moment," said Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew. "If you find that in a child's or student's writing, that's an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction ... just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing.
    • Teachers Without Borders
      Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08
       
      It's also a great opportunity for teachers who use blogging in their classes. At the same time, I don't think discouraging informal writing is the right thing to do. Students should have the freedom to use the kind of language they feel is most appropriate given their audience and content. Teaching to adjust one's voice based on audience is therefore crucial.
  • Teens who consider electronic communications with friends as "writing" are more likely to carry the informal elements into school assignments than those who distinguish the two.
    • Teachers Without Borders
      Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08
       
      I'd be interested to learn how many teachers use emoticons or other informal elements when writing on blogs or communicating with students outside of formal class assignments. For example, do teachers use informal elements when leaving comments on student blogs. Shouldn't they if they want to be seen as readers rather than evaluators?
  • Teens who keep blogs are more likely to engage in personal writing. They also tend to believe that writing will prove crucial to their eventual success in life. Parents are more likely than teenagers to believe that Internet-based writing such as e-mail and instant messaging affects writing overall, though both groups are split on whether the electronic communications help or hurt. Nonetheless, 73 percent of teens and 40 percent of parents said they believe Internet writing makes no difference either way.
    • Teachers Without Borders
      Teachers Without Borders on 25 Apr 08
       
      If the teacher models informal and formal writing well then this kind of informal writing is not likely to affect students' grasp of formal writing. However, the freedom to use informal, expressive writing might help students develop a stronger sense of voice in all kinds of written work, leading to improved confidence.
Teachers Without Borders

A Push to Improve Teachers' Colleges - WSJ.com - 1 views

online.wsj.com/...4138204576602992880869786.html

teacher education pre-service teachers evaluation standardized tests

shared by Teachers Without Borders on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The Obama administration announced a new $185 million competition Friday that would reward colleges for producing teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests. The competition would require states to provide data linking collegiate teaching programs inside their borders to the test scores of their graduates' students. Under the proposal, to be eligible for the money, states would have to ratchet up teacher-licensing exams and close persistently low-performing teacher-training programs.
  • In a news conference Friday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted that that nearly two-thirds of new teachers report feeling unprepared to run classes. "What if 62% of our new doctors felt unprepared to practice medicine?" said Mr. Duncan, adding that "the status quo is unacceptable."
  • Evidence is mounting that teacher quality is the biggest in-school determinant of student achievement. Yet the nation's colleges of education are a patchwork of programs that vary in quality. Each state sets its own admissions, graduation and licensing requirements.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Recruiting and training a strong teaching force has been a main priority of Mr. Duncan, and he has chided teacher-prep programs for their failure to produce high-quality instructors. The U.S. requires states to identify low-performing teacher-prep programs. But in the past 12 years, 27 states haven't found even one program lacking in quality, Mr. Duncan said.
1 - 10 of 10
Showing 20▼ items per page