Individualized Evaluations
Professional performance reviews are the keystone of the alt comp (alternative compensation) model within which PVSD's teachers operate. Determining whether or not a teacher is being paid according to the work they do, rather than time served, involves careful observation and objective analysis by a skilled, highly trained educator. One or two "drive-bys" by an administrator with little or no expertise in the subject area or grade level of the teacher being reviewed is a grossly inadequate protocol, given the high-stakes task of deciding whether an employee merits increased compensation, intense remediation, or eventual termination.
Alternative evaluation systems represent the mirror image of the traditional check list, everyone-meets-standards model now almost universally employed by American school districts and almost universally deplored by education reformers. Alternative evaluation is a review model that is authentic, accurate, and reliable. It involves multiple and varied measures of teacher performance across a broad spectrum of skills. It takes into account professional development, student growth, classroom management and practices, and standards-based student achievement and is an instrument tailored to the teacher being evaluated. And it does all this with the active involvement of the teacher himself or herself. Performance reviews have never been more fair or transparent.
Alternative evaluation systems represent the mirror image of the traditional check list, everyone-meets-standards model now almost universally employed by American school districts and almost universally deplored by education reformers. Alternative evaluation is a review model that is authentic, accurate, and reliable. It involves multiple and varied measures of teacher performance across a broad spectrum of skills. It takes into account professional development, student growth, classroom management and practices, and standards-based student achievement and is an instrument tailored to the teacher being evaluated. And it does all this with the active involvement of the teacher himself or herself. Performance reviews have never been more fair or transparent.
PVSD's teachers are evaluated based on the following criteria clusters:
Continuum of Teaching Practice
California Standards for the Teaching Profession
Continuum of Teaching Practice
California Standards for the Teaching Profession
For more on the changing nature of evaluations, see . . .
Articles:
How Should Teachers Be Evaluated? Let's Ask Teachers!
A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom: Creating a Teacher Evaluation System that Works for Calif.
Education Week Spotlight on Teacher Evaluations
Evaluations That Help Teachers Learn, Educational Leadership. December 2010
Edutopia: Teacher Evaluation
Test Scores Aren't Best Criteria to Judge Teachers (CTA President David Sanchez, San Francisco Chronicle editorial)
Making Sense of Teacher Professional Development
Education Week, "The Plight of Teachers' Unions"
How Should Teachers Be Evaluated? Let's Ask Teachers!
A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom: Creating a Teacher Evaluation System that Works for Calif.
Education Week Spotlight on Teacher Evaluations
Evaluations That Help Teachers Learn, Educational Leadership. December 2010
Edutopia: Teacher Evaluation
Test Scores Aren't Best Criteria to Judge Teachers (CTA President David Sanchez, San Francisco Chronicle editorial)
Making Sense of Teacher Professional Development
Education Week, "The Plight of Teachers' Unions"
"Why not just use traditional evaluations?" . . .
The Probelm of Inauthenticity
The Probelm of Inauthenticity
