The California Department of Education provides these links as information only and makes no claim that one link or article is/can be superior to any of the others, or that one method of evaluation is the correct method that all LEAs should use. Please visit this site often due to the fact that new links will be added frequently.
Teacher Evaluation Systems
National Resources
The following links are national resources that discuss the topic of teacher evaluations:
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
- Teacher Quality Center Teacher Quality Products (Outside Source)
This link provides to teacher evaluation products. The reader can select various types of evaluation models coupled with grade or subject area and the system will search for models in existence.
- Enhancing Teacher Evaluation: Effective Practices for Evaluation Teachers of All Students - TQ Webcast April 14, 2010 (Outside Source)
The webcast brought together experts to discuss the existing research and strategies that address evaluating teachers with focus on the teachers who teach students at-risk population.
- Resources on Teacher Evaluation - July 2010 (Posted 04-Nov-10; PDF; 206KB; 5pp.)
This research and policy update highlights challenges and consideration for regional and state stakeholders on the topic of teacher evaluation.
- Determining Processes That Build Sustainable Teacher Accountability Systems about the Study - October 2009 (Posted 04-Nov-10; PDF; 1.28MB; 24pp.)
The study team conducted phone interviews with representatives from three school districts (Chicago Public Schools, Denver Public Schools, and the New York City Department of Education) and three state education agencies (Minnesota Department of Education, Ohio State Board of Education, and South Carolina Department of Education) on the subject of teacher accountability systems.
- Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: The What, How and Why of Educators Evaluation – TQ Webcast March 30, 2009 (Outside Source)
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) and the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest cohosted a webcast titled Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: The What, How, and Why of Educator Evaluation on Monday, March 30, 2009, at 3 p.m. (ET). Douglas Harris, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Laura Goe, Ph.D., of ETS and the TQ Center, provided practitioners and policymakers with an overview of the existing and emerging research on teacher evaluation methods, including value-added models and observation protocols.
- Improving Instruction Through Effective Teacher Evaluation: Options for States and Districts – February 2008 (PDF, Outside Source)
This brief discusses the measures used in teacher evaluation and focuses on their strengths, limitations, and current use. It underscores aspects of evaluation policies currently aligned with best practices and illuminates areas in which policymakers can improve evaluation rules, regulations, and implementation—thereby improving teacher instruction and student performance.
- Using Value-Added Models to Identify and Support Highly Effective Teachers – May 2008 (Outside Source)
This study provides definition for Value-Added measures, and discusses benefits and various use of value-Added measures, to name a few, as a part of a teacher’s performance assessment, to help make differentiated pay decisions, to determine the impact of teacher characteristics and teacher practices on student outcomes, and to improve professional development.
National Council for Teacher Quality
- National Council on Teacher Quality (Outside Source)
This Web page provides a list of various reports created by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
New Teacher Center
- Continuum of Teaching Practice: California’s Continuum of Teaching Practice (PDF, Outside Source)
Based on foundational work of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), the California Department of Education (CDE) and the New Teacher Center (NTC) over the past 15 years, the 2010 Continuum of Teaching Practice is aligned with the California Standards for the Teaching Profession. It builds on California’s pre-service Teaching Performance Expectations and sets forth a description of teaching that respects the diverse ways teachers pursue excellence in teaching and learning.
Research
Center for American Progress
- Paying Teachers for Results: A Summary of Research to Inform the Design of Pay-for-performance Programs for High-Poverty Schools - May 2009 (Outside Source)
This paper defines pay-for-performance and outlines its logic as a strategy to improve teaching.
- From Qualifications to Results, Promoting Teacher Effectiveness Through Federal Policy - January 2009 (Outside Source)
This paper explains why a focus on effectiveness is needed and how it might work, and it describes current federal policy related to teacher quality. It then provides some new ideas about how federal policy can stimulate change at the state and local level to help states and districts move from a qualifications focus to an effectiveness focus:
- Stanford University (Outside Source)
Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness:
How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching
- Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: How Teacher performance Assessment Can Measure and Improve teaching – October 2010 (Outside Source)
This report discusses a promising approach to the question of how to measure teacher effectiveness. Specifically, it describes the ways in which assessments of teacher performance for licensing and certification can both reflect and predict teachers’ success with children so that they can not only inform personnel decisions, but also leverage improvements in preparation, mentoring, and professional development. It outlines progress in the field of teacher assessment development and discusses policies that could create much greater leverage on the quality of teacher preparation and teaching than has previously existed in the United States.
Other National Research
- Teacher Evaluation 2.0 (PDF, Outside Source)
This guide proposes six design standards of a teacher evaluations.
- Florida Department of Education Unveils "Effectiveness Compensation" Plan for Teachers. Press Release February 10, 2006 (Outside Source)
The "E-Comp" plan consists of two parts, including a requirement that all Florida teachers must have a portion of their salary based on their students' learning gains. In addition, the plan calls for those teachers who are recognized as outstanding to receive a bonus of five percent of their salary. An outstanding teacher is one that does the best job of improving student achievement.
- Problems With The Use of Student Test Scores To Evaluate Teachers - August 29, 2010 (PDF; Outside Source)
In this Economic Policy Institute (EPI) briefing paper scholars discuss what is now necessary in a comprehensive system that gives teachers the guidance and feedback, supportive leadership, and working conditions to improve their performance, and that permits schools to remove persistently ineffective teachers without distorting the entire instructional program by imposing a flawed system of standardized quantification of teacher quality.
California Resources
- A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom: Creating a Teacher Evaluation System that Works for California. Perspectives from Accomplished California Teachers - By National Board Resource Center at Stanford University -2010 (Outside Source)
This report offers recommendations on making teacher evaluation a more useful tool to advance the quality of teaching across California. [This report was conducted by the Accomplished California Teachers, a program of the National Board Resource Center at Stanford, in collaboration with the Center for Teaching Quality.
- A Possible Dream: Retaining California Teachers So All Students Learn - 2007 (PDF; Outside Source)
The Center for Teacher Quality at the California State University, Sacramento conducted a study to better understand the factors that contribute to teacher attrition and turnover.
- Incompetent Teachers or Dysfunctional Systems? Re-framing the Debate on Teacher Quality and Accountability - January 2007 (PDF; Outside Source)
This paper will begin by examining the case in favor of teacher removal and then describes three problems with this approach. It offers suggestions for the significant improvements to the overall quality of teaching in our schools.
- California Standards for the Teaching Profession: The California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP) (PDF, Outside Source)
Intended to provide a common language and a vision of the scope and complexity of the profession by which all teachers can define and develop their practice. The CSTP was formally adopted by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and endorsed by the State Board of Education.
- Effective Teacher Evaluations - Approved by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Board of Directors as submitted by the ESEA Reauthorization Task Force, October 8, 2010 (DOC; Outside Source)
This link lists the criteria which forms the basis of what a quality evaluation process should include.
- Great Teachers and Leaders - Adopted by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Board of Directors as submitted by the ESEA Reauthorization Task Force, July 2010 (DOC; Outside Source)
This link provides the California Standards for the Teaching Profession and the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.
Principal Evaluation Systems
National Resources
The following links are national resources that discuss the topic of principal evaluations.
- Principal Evaluation System (PPT; Outside Source)
Evaluation process is same for all. Principal Evaluation System promoting knowledge/skill areas that will constitute principal's evaluation portfolio.
- Teacher and Principal Evaluations - Home (Outside Source)
Principal Evaluation Procedures: Principals and assistant principals are evaluated in accordance with district policy.
- Principal Evaluations [Mackinac Center] (Outside Source)
Principal and vice principal evaluations can also help pinpoint good teaching, and policymakers who face resistance to value-added.
- Leadership Performance Planning Worksheet (Outside Source)
This site provides a leadership performance planning worksheet from New York City Department of Education. The theory behind the worksheet is that focused work on a set of clearly defined school leadership competencies will help principals promote student success.
- Principal Procedures/Assurance Form (PDF; Outside Source)
This resource is from South Carolina Department of Education, Program for Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Principal Performance, which contains a Principal Procedures/Assurance Form.
The Principal Procedures/Assurance Form contains a listing of the major activities to be completed prior to and during the evaluation of the principal. At the completion of the evaluation process, the evaluator and the principal complete and sign the Principal Procedures/Assurance Form to document that the principal’s evaluation has been conducted as required.
California Resources
- Effective Principals for California Schools (Outside Source)
The purpose of the Integrated Leadership Development Initiative (ILDI) is to collaboratively guide and support leader development and improve conditions of leadership through articulation, professional development, quality review, policy assessment and recommendations, and resource sharing and development so that there are highly accomplished leaders in every district and school in California.
- Great Teachers and Leaders - Adopted by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Board of Directors as submitted by the ESEA Reauthorization Task Force, July 2010 (DOC; Outside Source)
This link provides the California Standards for the Teaching Profession and the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.
