Lynette Guastaferro, executive director of the nonprofit Teaching Matters, offers this constructive criticism about the city’s new teacher evaluation system, per a press release:
Many great teachers are feeling threatened by the changes to come – but the plan holds opportunities as well. We believe these are some of the important practices that should be followed:
- Include content experts in observations
- Ask the strongest teachers to volunteer first for feedback from peers
- Limit the number of indicators assessed in each observation
- Use evaluation results to help target the right professional support for teachers