Waubonsee Community College

Getting teacher evaluation right, what really matters for effectiveness and improvement, Linda Darling-Hammond

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-169) and index

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Getting teacher evaluation right

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Linda Darling-Hammond

what really matters for effectiveness and improvement

In her new book, Linda Darling-Hammond makes a case for a research-based approach to teacher evaluation that supports collaborative models of teacher planning and learning. She outlines the most current research informing evaluation of teaching practice that incorporates evidence of what teachers do and what their students learn. In addition, she examines the harmful consequences of using any single student test as a basis for evaluating individual teachers. Finally, Darling-Hammond offers a vision of teacher evaluation as part of a teaching and learning system that supports continuous improvement, both for individual teachers and for the profession as a whole

Think systemically : Problems with current evaluation systems ; How should we think about the improvement of teaching? ; Understanding teacher quality and teaching quality ; A systemic approach to evaluating and supporting teaching -- Start with standards : Standards for student learning ; Standards for teaching -- Create a continuum of performance assessments : Features of performance assessments ; Creating a state system ; A performance-based continuum in action :the case of New Mexico -- Build standards-based systems of local evaluation : Standards-based evaluations of practice ; Professional contributions ; Evidence of student learning -- Use evidence of student learning appropriately : The benefits and challenges of looking at learning through a value-added lens ; How value-added achievement measures operate in the real world ; Productive uses of student learning evidence -- Support meaningful professional learning : Professional learning that pays off ; Building collective expertise -- Create structures to enable fair and effective evaluation : Evaluator expertise ; Governance structures that enable personnel decisions ; Peer assistance and review in action ; A feasible system that is adequately resourced -- Remember the goal: keep your eyes on the prize : Coordinating state licensing and local evaluation ; Integrating evidence of practice with evidence of student learning ; The critical importance of a collective perspective -- Appendix: Student learning evidence template: Albuquerque, New Mexico