The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is rolling out new educator evaluation regulations. In the Hechinger Report, I explain the importance of using multiple measures of evaluation, and explain how effectively capture student growth in an elementary Spanish classroom. http://hechingerreport.org/content/multiple-measures-matter-for-teachers-too_8662/
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Riana, what a great voice you are for both teachers and the school. Your example of what you might expect a third grader to do and how to use that information to inform your instruction reaffirms why I am so happy you are my daughter’s teacher.
Thank you and congratulations.
Carolyn
Thank you. It is inspirational to be part of a school that values the whole child and recognizes the need for multiple measures to capture the many forms that learning takes place.
Riana-
I am interested in finding out more about your evaluation rubric. I read about it in the Hechinger Rpt. I am currently the Pres. of a local teachers union and as we work toward annual evaluations of all of our teaching staff we hope to be able to have evals of all that are meaningful and not generic. Yours sounds wonderful! It sounds like you have put much effort, thought, and time into developing an evaluation.
Jill Carpenter, Grandville Education Association (MI)
Thank you! I would be glad to contribute to your generation of meaningful evaluations when I return later in the summer.
Riana,
I read your article from the Hechinger Report with great interest, from the perspective of a consultant from the PA Dept of Education working on the evidence of student achievement portion of teacher evaluation. I am interested in what the rubrics or evaluative measures look like for assessing the student portfolio that you describe in addition to any tools (or resources) you may have developed to provide teachers in non-tested grades and subjects an opportunity to showcase their teaching skills based on student achievement.
Thanks,
Dave Deitz
Hi Dave, Sorry for the delay – I have been away for most of the summer. I currently have rubrics for individual assignments, but have not yet crafted an assessment for the student portfolios. Here in Massachusetts we are just starting to roll out new Educator Evaluation regulations that will likely develop such assessments down the road.