Connecting Teacher Effectiveness Evaluations to Policy and Practice in Education
Explore the State of the States 2013 report on using teacher effectiveness evaluations to inform education policy and practice. The report highlights the structure of teacher evaluation systems, state requirements for teacher observations, additional teacher evaluation policies, and important lessons and recommendations for improving the evaluation process.
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State of the States 2013 Connect the Dots Using evaluations of teacher effectiveness to inform policy and practice National Council on Teacher Quality
Structure of Teacher Evaluation Systems in the States Single statewide system 2 12 Presumptive state model State provides guidelines/criteria/o ptional model 27 10 State has no statewide specifications
State requirements for teacher observations State requires observation as part of teacher evaluations 45 State requires multiple observations 25 States requires some unannounced observations 15 State requires evaluation feedback to teachers 22
Additional teacher evaluation policies State requires or allows use of surveys 17 State requires evaluator certification 14
Lessons and Recommendations States must to connect the dots. Overhauling evaluation systems is expensive and time-consuming work not using the results in meaningful ways is counterproductive and wasteful. Differentiating teacher performance isn t going to happen just because states and districts have a new evaluation rubric.
Lessons and Recommendations All teachers need feedback not just low-performers. The Common Core should not be used as an argument for suspending teacher evaluations. Special education and non-tested grades and subjects cannot be an afterthought.
Lessons and Recommendations While there is a place for collective responsibility for school performance, school wide measures cannot be a substitute for individual measures of performance. States need to require and implement measures that they can demonstrate correlate with student achievement not allow teacher evaluation to become a watered-down process.
