Florida Department of Education retracts teacher evaluation report
Accurate data or not, the report was suppose to contain a new evaluation system that includes the state's first stab at a value-added model. In essence, the value-added model is the difference between the learning growth a student makes in a teacher's ...jacksonville.com
Evaluation agreement clears union hurdle; teachers endorse Zimmer
Proponents emphasized that the deal did not permit a "value-added" calculation for an individual teacher to be a specific part of that teacher's job evaluation. Value-added formulas gauge a teacher's role in student growth by attempting to account for ...latimesblogs.latimes.com
Teacher Evaluations In South Carolina Questioned By Educators
The proposed evaluation system, which is being beta-tested in 22 schools across the state this year, is partially a value-added model (VAM) by which teachers are evaluated on individual students' growth from one year to the next on the Palmetto ...www.huffingtonpost.com
A 'value-added' travesty for an award-winning teacher
Her plight stems back to last spring when the Florida Legislature passed Senate Bill 736, which mandates that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation must be based on student scores on the state's standardized tests, a method known as the value-added ...www.washingtonpost.com
Confused, discouraged teachers file complaints over new reviews
Amid the complaints, however, the value-added data helped or had no impact on teachers' final evaluations far more often than it hurt them in Central Florida, according to data from three local school districts. In Lake County, for example, 80 percent ...articles.orlandosentinel.com
Collier, Lee teachers receive high rankings on state evaluations; Some ...
State law passed in 2011 requires teacher evaluations and pay be based in part on students' academic growth as determined by standardized tests.www.naplesnews.com
Florida releases first report on test-driven teacher evaluations
Under the old system, there were only two grades for teachers: satisfactory and unsatisfactory. And the state received reports that less than 1 percent of Florida teachers were unsatisfactory. The new test score-driven evaluations -- dubbed "value ...www.miamiherald.com
Florida union seeks delay in teacher evaluation plan
At a press conference Tuesday morning, shortly before the Legislature convened for its organizational session, a parade of teachers talked about how they feel the "value-added model" - which relies on test scores to help measure a teacher's impact on ...www.miamiherald.com
Florida's teacher evaluations aren't ready
This year's value added measurement scores "should be used only for purposes of discussion and professional development.jacksonville.com
Louisiana launches controversial new teacher evaluations to praise, fear
And as in other states, 32 of which have passed teacher evaluation laws in the past four years, the new system is built around a controversial provision requiring that half of a teacher's ranking be based on "value-added modeling." That means using ...hechingerreport.org
State: More than 1300 Manatee teachers were 'highly effective' in 2011-12
The state's Department of Education released its first report on new, controversial evaluations for teachers Wednesday.www.bradenton.com
St. Charles School Board adopts new teacher salary schedule
The St. Charles School Board voted unanimously Wednesday night to adopt a customized teacher salary schedule for the 2013-2014 school year that lays out new guidelines for how teachers will be evaluated and compensated in the parish. ... Roughly one ...www.nola.com
Teacher evaluation models redesigned
One component will be teacher-level value-added data - Terra Nova Achievement tests, Ohio Graduation Tests, Ohio Achievement Assessments, exams, etc.newsdemocrat.com
Central Florida teachers react to new evaluation system
The teachers union plans to lobby the Legislature to revise the law it passed last year requiring the new value-added model. The new system has Central Florida teachers riled up, too. "We've said all along it's not a valid way to teach teaching skills ...www.clickorlando.com
Report: Brevard teachers outperform peers across state
More than a quarter of Brevard public school teachers are considered highly effective, the highest possible ranking in a new state evaluation system rolled out last school year. A preliminary report released by the Florida Department of ... The "value ...www.floridatoday.com
Teachers upset with newly released appraisals
The state-mandated value-added model, which is attached to progress from a student's FCAT scores from one year to the next, factored into 40 percent of a teacher's appraisal this year. As a media specialist at Littlewood Elementary, she does not ...www.gainesville.com
Teachers, Union Outraged Over New Evaluation Reports
The Value-Added system is based on what the state thinks students should be doing, versus what they actually are doing.news.wfsu.org
Remainders: Teachers rally and counter-rally over evaluations
(HuffPo); A Florida teacher of the year says value-added measures alone fueled her ineffective rating. (Facebook); Rick Hess pans Thomas Friedman's unproductive "fanboy praise" of Ed Sec Arne Duncan.gothamschools.org
Editorial: Evaluations of teachers need reset
Without a better understanding of the evaluations, especially the yet-to-be released Value-Added Model, which determines whether a teacher will receive additional pay, the entire plan could be on a course destined for failure. Beyond that, it could ...www.news-press.com
Race to the Top gets an "F"
Contrary to what these editorials have claimed, while state law currently mandates that "student growth" be part of teacher evaluation, the district's RTTT application would take this one step further by implementing a value-added evaluation model that ...socialistworker.org
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