NEA Announces Picks for Teacher-Effectiveness Panel
The National Education Association last week announced the names of 21 educators and academics who will sit on its Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching, a group that will make recommendations to the union for "maximizing teacher and teaching effectiveness."
The commission was announced at this past summer's Representative Assembly, but these are the first details NEA has unveiled about what it will be doing.
According to the union, the panelists will:
• Analyze existing standards, definitions, policies and practices related to teacher effectiveness and effective teaching, and develop a teacher's definition of an effective teacher and effective teaching;
• Craft a new vision of the teaching profession;
• Write a comprehensive set of recommendations for the NEA about the union's role in advancing and promoting