How can effective teaching beidentified and developed?
The Measures of Effective Teaching
project aims to find out.
Watch a video to learn about the Measures of Effective Teaching project.
Our Goals
The goal of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project is to help educators and policymakers identify and support good teaching by improving the quality of information available about teacher practice. With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, independent education researchers, in partnership with school districts, principals, teachers, and unions, will work to develop a fair and reliable measure of effective teaching.
Current measures of teaching rarely take into account the full range of what teachers do, or the context in which they teach. The MET project is different. It's informed by the real work of real teachers in real classrooms. It goes beyond the exclusive use of student assessments as a proxy for effectiveness and, instead, is geared to developing a set of measures that together serve as an accurate indicator of a teacher's impact on student achievement.
We hope you'll join us in our efforts to improve education in our public schools by identifying, measuring, and supporting great teaching.