Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

Under the present teacher evaluation system in New York, known as APPR (Annual Professional Performance Review), she is not in danger of losing her job. She was rated effective overall due to ...

In response to the recent national focus on measuring teacher performance, NIET recently released a report documenting TAP’s teacher evaluation ... We find that this forms the basis for a ...

Massachusetts presents a novel approach that highly values evaluator judgment and uses test scores only as a check on the system. There has been a sea change in teacher evaluation over the past ...

Observations of teachers—usually the most prominent component of teacher-evaluation systems—can carry significant sources of bias, potentially penalizing English/language arts teachers of ...

and various others are encouraging state governments to revise teacher evaluation systems to consider the impact of individual teachers on their students’ achievement. The states are responding.

Tennessee's prekindergarten and kindergarten teacher evaluation system ... certain standards or students on the form used for the portfolio evaluation, which made it impossible to score.

While some teachers praise the evaluation system for pinpointing their weaknesses and helping them improve, others complain that the evaluators and instructional coaches are too rushed to spend ...