Teacher Evaluations
We believe that fair and rigorous evaluations of our teaching must look at multiple measures. Learn about how teachers can grow through holistic and comprehensive evaluations.
From E4E New York
Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York
June 2011
In Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York, our teacher policy team proposes an evaluation system based on student growth data, administrator observations, independent outside observations, student surveys, school community participation, professionalism and attendance.
Additional Resources
Fair to Everyone: Building the Balanced Teacher Evaluations That Students and Teachers Deserve
September 2011
The Education Trust states that everyone benefits from teacher evaluation systems when they are based upon regular classroom observations and multiple measures of a teacher’s contribution to student achievement.
Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of the Value-Added
November 2010
The Brookings Institution discusses how value-added measures can be an important – though not the only – piece of information in teacher evaluations.
Teacher Evaluation 2.0
October 2010
The New Teacher Project envisions how policymakers can create new evaluation systems that avoid the pitfalls of previous ones through offering six design standards that an evaluation system should meet.
Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance On the Job
April 2006
Proposing federal support to help states measure teacher effectiveness, The Brookings Institution offers student achievement, subjective peer and administrator evaluations, and parental evaluations as evaluation criteria.
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