NewsEVENT Tom Kane on Harvard EdCast: The Great Teacher Checklist March 2012 Tom Kane discusses the findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project on Harvard EdCast: The Great Teacher Checklist. Through its research, the MET Project hopes to discover the evaluation methods tat can best aid teachers in discovering which among their schools are most effective in the classroom, and also to help scool districts identify strong teaching. Kane is also a Principal Investigator for NCTE. Click here for Harvard EdCast: The Great Teacher Checklist PUBLICATION NCTE Newsletter February 2012 NCTE releases the first in its series of newsletters. The newsletters provide an opportunity to learn more about the project and current news in education policy. The next installment is expected to be released at the end of the academic scool year. Click here for full newsletter PUBLICATION Prioritizing Teacher Quality in a New System of Teacher Evaluation November 2011 NCTE leaders Heather Hill and Corinne Herlihy are published in the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Outlook Series. The article emphasizes the importance of focusing on the quality of teaching, and not "teacher quality." The researchers make a case for establishing systems of teacher evaluation that provide teacher scores that accurately represent their skill and capacity in teaching and helping students learn. Download full PDFEVENT Supporting Rater Accuracy and Consistency in Classroom Observation October 20 & 27, 2011
The two-part webinar, hosted by NCTE, provided an opportunity for states to hear from and ask questions of experts who help to design and implement classroom observation systems that support rater accuracy and consistency. Presenters included six organizations that are currently supporting this type of work in states and districts to describe what they do and what they have learned to help implement these systems at scale. Click here for more information, PowerPoint slides, and webinar recording.EVENT Putting the Pieces Together: Taking Improved Teacher Evaluation to Scale May 2-3, 2011Conference online resources are up!: NCTE Conference 2011PUBLICATION The Effect of Evaluation on Teacher Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers March 2011NCTE-affiliated researchers release new paper on the effect of evaluation on teacher performance. Do experienced teachers who undergo evaluation in a well developed and rigorous practice-based evaluation system become better teachers as a result of going through the evaluation process? Researchers provide evidence that going through Cincinnati’s Teacher Evaluation System does increase a teacher’s ability to promote student achievement growth as measured by test scores.(Paper updated March 2011.) Download full article
