? AP, 2013
By Jeffrey Tousey SYRACUSE (NCC News)-?The days of only students stressing out over report cards are officially over, at least in New York State. ?For the first time in New York state history all 700 hundred school districts have implemented mandatory teacher evaluations. Every teacher in every district received a report card based on their performance in the classroom and how their students scored on standardized tests.
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Why are we evaluating teachers?
This comes after the federal government ?put together an incentive program that would provide states with millions of dollars in additional funding if they had a teacher evaluation system in place for every school district. ?Governor Cuomo realized that New York state spends more money on education that any other state in the nation, and had no system in place to track how the money was being distributed.
After a failed attempt to get the teacher?s union to work with him on getting an evaluation system put in place, he came back with an ultimatum; if school?s did not put in an evaluation system they would not receive any state funding. ?By early 2012, every school district in the state of New York had a teacher report card in place. ?This now gave state officials the ability to measure every teacher, every classroom and every school in the state and further cross reference between districts, to better determine what is and isn?t working in the New York state education system.
How are the teachers being evaluated?
The teacher evaluations are scored on a 100 point system and broken down into three sections.
Weighing in the heaviest and accounting for 60 points is teacher performance in the classroom. ?This is scored by an unannounced visit by the principal or a school administrator, where they will observe the teacher for a 40 minute lesson.
?I don?t care if people are in my classroom,? said Anna Morrow, a teacher at?Liverpool elementary, ??Like come in, see what I?m doing, and come in often, so that my evaluation isn?t based on a 40 minute lesson.?
The other two sections are a twenty, twenty split based on student achievement in state and local standardized tests.
?And that?s scary to me that we?re?. We?re taking 20 points and basing it on six days of testing,? said Morrow.
Once all the observations are recorded and the test scores returned teachers are then rated as either ineffective, developing, effective, or highly effective.
If a teacher scores ?ineffective,? the school district is then required to work with that teacher individually to help them become a stronger educators. ?If after two years, the teacher is still scoring ?ineffective,? they may face a termination hearing.
Governor Cuomo believes?the program puts students first and makes New York a national leader in holding teachers accountable for student achievement.
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Source: https://nccnews.expressions.syr.edu/?p=101967
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