These tools provide teachers total control of the devices and content used within their classroom for better lesson planning and student evaluation.
The SMILE Plug provides teachers with a platform to expand access to and utilization of new educational content and the ability to control mobile devices within the classroom, enabling overall better lesson planning and student evaluation.
These would eventually include requiring all states to adopt higher standards for student proficiency and teacher-evaluation systems that included student achievement.
Many of the proposed improvements in teacher education and evaluation, student assessment, and school design in traditional public schools do not seem to be novel.
He has become a right-wing hero by demonizing teachers, lambasting unions, challenging tenure rights and introducing a crude teacher-evaluation process based on student test scores.
In the recent case of Chicago, the teachers union resisted the notion that 30 percent of their evaluation should be based on student performance.
Meanwhile, all manner of reform advocates continue their decades-long scramble for solutions: smaller classes, longer days, better teachers, better principals, better superintendents, improved student testing, more rigorous teacher evaluation, more imaginative use of technology.
The teacher evaluation system (TEVAL) has student learning, instructional practices, and professional values as its core components.
Online tools enable evaluation of a much wider range of student actions, such as how long they devote to readings, where they get electronic resources, and how quickly they master key concepts.
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The city said its evaluation plans included things like the implementation and use of student feedback surveys as well as specific considerations for teachers who are dealing with students who are English language learners and students with disabilities.
New York City has forfeited hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars because union and city officials haven't agreed on a new evaluation system that would judge teachers, in part, on student test scores.
The program faces challenges from tightening budgets, but Eagle County so far has been able to keep its evaluation and support system intact likely one reason why student test scores have improved in Eagle County over the past five years.
He said that student-achievement data is only one component of the district's teacher-evaluation system, which relies heavily on principal observations.
Pat Hunter, a principal at Maple Elementary in Seattle, said she supports using student-achievement results to guide instruction and as a "small piece" of the overall evaluation.
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