Teacher evaluations — and surveys of students and colleagues - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:
By Katy Murphy
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 8:49 am in
teachers.
Dave Orphal, a teacher at Skyline High School in Oakland, is writing a series of blog posts for The Education Report about revamping teacher evaluations — including a pilot program that two middle schools are using this year. Orphal serves as a veteran teacher leader for the Bay Area New Millennium Initiative and works with the California Teachers Association’s Institute for Teaching. You can read more of Dave’s thoughts on teaching and educational reform atTransformED. 
In my last post, I offered an overview of a proposed teacher evaluation system that two Oakland schools are piloting. The proposed system would replace the six performance criteria outlined in the California Standards for the Teaching Profession in favor of five new, but remarkably similar, criteria. I also examined one major departure from the current system of teacher evaluation, specifically the use of student performance data.
In this post, we will look at another significant difference from the current and piloted systems: feedback from a
