She supported a state law that shielded teachers' evaluation from widespread public view.
Starting in 2009, the Gates Foundation supported a project known as the Measure of Effective Teaching, or MET, which worked with 3, 000 teachers to come up an evaluation and feedback system that helped teachers improve.
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Like districts throughout New York state, the city has been negotiating with its teachers' union over a new evaluation system that makes it easier to fire teachers.
Improving the quality of teaching in the classroom by improving the preparation, professional development, and evaluation of teachers and principals.
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Life-long training, networks of learning teachers, action research, community relations, evaluation and accountability: all these are crucial factors for making teachers who can provide their students with the most productive and successful settings for learning.
And he is willing to use federal handouts as an enticement to states to adopt more exacting evaluation schemes for teachers, a tactic often attacked by conservatives.
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But he said the lingering effects of superstorm Sandy and the administration's failure to broker a deal with the teachers' union on an evaluation plan have exerted significant pressure on the city's finances.
Under the new evaluation law, teachers are required to be ranked on a four-tier system based 40% on how much students have improved on tests or other measures, and 60% on more subjective measures, such as principals' observations.
The governor had set a January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring an evaluation system for all teachers.
"The union wanted to use the expiration of the evaluation system to keep ineffective teachers in classrooms, not to mention hold the city hostage in future negotiations, " she said.
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.
Part of the savings could then be used to give the top teachers a raise. ( In a 2008 survey funded by the Gates Foundation, 83 percent of teachers said they would be happy to teach more students for more pay.) The rest of the savings could go toward improving teacher support and evaluation systems, to help more teachers become great.
An evaluation of SMASE reveals that students of teachers who underwent SMASE achieved better in science and mathematics than students of other teachers.
The systematic evaluation of promising methods and attracting skilled teachers into the early years could save billions of pounds and enhance the outcomes of children in future years.
We could see why Mary Ann is a master teacher, a distinction given to the school's best teachers and an important component of a teacher-evaluation system in Eagle County.
In the recent case of Chicago, the teachers union resisted the notion that 30 percent of their evaluation should be based on student performance.
In addition to amendments made by the teachers, the learners contribute to the design, development and evaluation of the programme.
With unions on the defensive in state legislatures on pension and medical benefits, evaluation systems and collective bargaining itself some teachers may be concerned that unions aren't fighting hard enough for their interests.
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The schools lost that increase from last year because the United Federation of Teachers union and Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to agree to a teacher evaluation system by a deadline set in state law.
The evaluation is a basic checklist, and the vast majority of teachers receive satisfactory ratings.
His merit-pay proposal would expand the uses of a teacher-evaluation system still being hammered out for the city's teachers.
First adopted into state law in 2010, the evaluation system was hailed as a breakthrough for advocates who argue that teachers should be judged by how much their students learn in the classroom.
New York is one of dozens of states moving to adopt new evaluation systems, though there is no consensus on how best to evaluate teachers.
With no evaluation deal in place, the city will revert to its previous system of grading teachers on the up-or-down scale.
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Thursday the district would move to fire teachers who receive low ratings due to incompetence in two consecutive years if a new teacher-evaluation system isn't in place by the time school starts this fall.
These tools provide teachers total control of the devices and content used within their classroom for better lesson planning and student evaluation.
New York has long had a system that rates teachers as "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory, " with a very small percentage receiving a poor evaluation each year.
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 United Federation of Teachers also asked a state labor board to intervene in a standoff with the city over a teacher-evaluation system at most of those schools, though the city said the board had no right to weigh in on the matter.
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