Category Archive: Teacher Standards/Educator Evaluation
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Teacher and Principal Evaluation: Professional Growth through a Common Language
Teachers and principals must work together to find ways to authentically support and implement fresh ideas about teaching and learning in the classroom.
The required implementation of Washington State’s new teacher and principal evaluation law (E2SSB 6696) is rapidly approaching in the fall of 2013. Several of my fellow Core …
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Friday Forum – Any Helpful Resources for Teacher Evaluations?
Friday Forum is a bi-weekly advice column for educators seeking guidance on educations issues. Please join the discussion – we want to hear your stories and suggestions, too!
Q: What are a few helpful resources that provide good examples of teacher evaluation criteria? Thanks! – Corrie
A: Want an honest answer …
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How Success at the Core Helps Me “Lean In” to New Teacher Evaluations
“By talking openly about the challenges that we all face in the workplace and at home, we can work towards solutions together.” — Sheryl Sandburg
Sheryl Sandburg could have written her new book Lean In not about corporate America, but about the challenges teachers face adapting to changes in teacher evaluations. …
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Preparing to Talk Evaluation with My Principal
Like many of you, I’m already thinking about my final evaluation conference with my principal. I know that the new teacher evaluation system in my state (Washington) requires me to give evidence of differentiating instruction to meet my students’ needs. I must also show evidence of students’ academic growth. Trying …
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New Teacher Evaluations: A Road Map to Great Teaching
I’m teaching a training class for teachers about the best way to give students feedback, and it dawns on me: When do teachers get the type of formative feedback that we strive to give our students? We talk about kids needing specific, timely feedback in order to improve. Don’t teachers …
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A Principal Speaks about Performance Evaluation
Educators in the state of Washington have been presented with a variety of new challenges during the 2012-2013 school year. Some of these have been foreseeable, such as the adoption of the Common Core State Standards and new teacher and principal evaluation systems. Other responsibilities, such as addressing school safety …
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What Do Students, Teachers and Administrators Need to Learn?
Professional Learning Communities often ask four essential questions to guide their work:
- What do the students need to learn?
- How will we know when they have learned it?
- What will we do when they haven’t learned it?
- What will we do when they already know it?
“Learning,” in this case, refers both to knowing a …
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How I Survived a Teacher Evaluation Pop Quiz
At my school, there’s a lot of talk about Washington state’s new teacher evaluation system, which will be implemented statewide in Fall 2013. Principals are gearing up to measure teacher performance and teachers are working to strengthen their practice around eight new criteria. Last week, such preparatory efforts became very …
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Strange New Worlds
What do you think it takes to be an instructional leader in the 21st century?
Recently, I participated in two professional development offerings to help equip me for this challenge. First, as a Success at the Core (SaC) Fellow, I had the opportunity to learn more about SaC with a small …
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When School Budgets Dry Up: Innovation Can Help Educators Ride out the Storm
In the wake of what the National Science Teacher Association calls “unacceptable” standardized test results, U.S. educators everywhere are nervously grappling with the reality of deeper spending cuts that threaten to challenge our kids further. As professional educators, we have an obligation to find additional resources that will …
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