The Gates Foundation Writes: How Do We Consider Evidence of Student Learning in Teacher Evaluation?
Guest post by Vicki Phillips.
This post tackles the second topic in a five part dialogue with representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A response from Anthony Cody will come tomorrow.
Education debates are often characterized wrongly as two warring camps: blame teachers for everything that's not working in our schools or defend all teachers at all costs.
But there's actually serious work going on in the middle, where there's a lot of common purpose around helping teachers improve their practice and students improve their learning. The fundamental question is how do we reliably measure learning and use a range of quality feedback to provide great support for teachers to continually improve.
Not only do students have a right to effective instruction, good
This post tackles the second topic in a five part dialogue with representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A response from Anthony Cody will come tomorrow.
Education debates are often characterized wrongly as two warring camps: blame teachers for everything that's not working in our schools or defend all teachers at all costs.
But there's actually serious work going on in the middle, where there's a lot of common purpose around helping teachers improve their practice and students improve their learning. The fundamental question is how do we reliably measure learning and use a range of quality feedback to provide great support for teachers to continually improve.
Not only do students have a right to effective instruction, good