"...teacher
evaluations must be about improving teaching, not just rating teachers."
—AFT president Randi Weingarten –
As
stated in the quote as I prepare for teaching in the future and will be
subjected to teacher evaluations throughout my teaching career what I would
most appreciate from my mentors or observers would be feedback on how well he thinks the students grasped the
content, whether my teaching tools were effective in delivering the content and
how best I can improve my interaction with the students to motivate them to
work effectively in the classroom.
Looking into teacher evaluation systems in the U.S , the
district of Ohio uses the Ohio Teacher
Evaluation System. It is used by
school districts to provide the teachers a detailed performance report
that focus on the specifics of teacher strengths and how the teacher can
improve. The teacher ratings will be as follows
Based on the evaluation,
teachers receive one of four ratings.
According to the Ohio
Teacher evaluation system, the teachers are evaluated on two components weighted at 50percent on each section.
1.
Teacher performance
rating,
Based on A professional growth plan, two 30 minute observations
and walk through
2.
Student academic growth
rating.
There’s now a -New Alternative Framework
1. Where the teacher
performance rating is weighted at 42.5 percent, determined from:
A professional growth plan, two 30 minute
observations & walk through;
2. Student academic
growth rating, weighted at 42.5 percent
3. Alternative component
from the list below, using a instruments such as; Student surveys; Teacher
self-evaluations; Peer review evaluations; or Student portfolios.
Another teacher evaluation
system is the Interstate Teacher
Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC): Model Core Teaching Standards:
According to the NEA
Teacher Evaluation guide the InTASC offers a set of model core teaching
standards that outline what teachers should know and be able to do to ensure
every K-12 student reaches the goal of being ready to enter college or the workforce
in today’s world.
These teaching
standards have been based on research and exemplify effective teaching and
learning in a transformed public education system—this is a system that:
• Empowers every learner to take
ownership of his or her own learning.
• Emphasizes the learning of content
and application of knowledge and skills to real world problems.
• Values the differences each learner
brings to the learning experience
• Leverages rapidly changing learning
environments by recognizing the possibilities they bring to maximize learning and engage learners. (Association, N. E. )
There are ten model
core teaching standards covered in this model;
Standard #1: Learner
Development.
Standard #3: Learning
Environments.
Standard #2: Learning
Differences.
Standard #4: Content
Knowledge.
Standard #5:
Application of Content.
Standard #6:
Assessment.
Standard #7: Planning
for Instruction.
Standard #8:
Instructional Strategies.
Standard #9:
Professional Learning and Ethical Practice.
Standard #10:
Leadership and Collaboration.
The Danielson Framework that is aligned to the Intasc standards is
composed of 4 main domains within which there are 22 components;
1 1. Planning and preparation
2 2. Class room environment
3 3. Instruction
4 4 Professional responsibilities.
Each component has a distinct aspect of a
domain. The levels of teaching performance describe each component and provide
a road map for improvement of teaching. The Framework maybe used for school,
district mentoring, coaching, professional development, and teacher evaluation
processes, thus linking all those activities together and helping teachers become
more thoughtful practitioners.( Group, T.
D. 2013)
I believe this frame work is much easier to use
for assessment as it is separated into the specific domains therefore the
teacher will be able to assess the area needing improvement easily work towards
it.
Works Cited
Association, N. E. (n.d.). Teacher Evaluation.
National Education Association.
Education, O. D. (n.d.). Ohio Teacher Evaluation
Systems. Retrieved July 14, 2015, from Ohio Department of Education:
http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Teaching/Educator-Evaluation-System/Ohio-s-Teacher-Evaluation-System
Group, T. D. (2013). The Framework. Retrieved
July 10, 2015, from The Danielson Group: https://danielsongroup.org/framework/
Teachers, T. A. (n.d.). Teacher Development and
Evaluation. Retrieved July 10, 2015, from AFT-- A union of professionals:
http://www.aft.org/position/teacher-development-and-evaluation
