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With many U.S. states overhauling their teacher evaluation systems and introducing student test scores as a factor, how can schools ensure fair evaluation of teachers of non-tested subjects like art and physical education? One of the first states to begin implementing evaluation reform was Tennessee and, back in February, Education Week's Teaching Now blog noted the efforts of arts teachers in Memphis to devisealternative evaluation criteria based on portfolios, work that went on to be lauded by Arne Duncan. Absent alternative criteria, such teachers would be evaluated in part on a schoolwide value-added score unrelated to their subject specifically.
Curious how this effort was unfolding, I took a look at Teacher Evaluation in Tennessee: A Report on Year 1 Implementation (PDF), issued by the Tennessee Department of Education in July. Echoing the Teaching Nowpost, it states: "teachers in subjects and grades that do not yield an individual value-added score consistently
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