The document discusses the disconnect between teacher licensing criteria and evaluations. Teacher licensing focuses on student development, instruction skills, and professional conduct, but evaluations primarily assess student test scores. This leads to issues like evaluations not considering a teacher's social or professional skills, and teachers focusing only on test preparation instead of creativity. The document argues evaluations should incorporate additional measures beyond test scores, like social surveys and feedback from administrators, to better align with licensing goals and encourage teacher growth.
2. Does the Licensing process for
becoming a teacher reinforce the
values looked for in teacher
evaluations, or does it provide a false
sense of what it is to be a teacher?
3. Teacher Licensing
• Receiving a teacher
license is no easy
task.
• You have to know
much more than
simply the subject
you are attempting
to teach.
4. 3 Key Licensing Criteria (#1)
Student Development and Learning
• A teacher must be able
to analyze their
students strengths and
weaknesses and adapt
accordingly.
• A relatively good
understanding of the
human psyche is
essential to a teacher.
5. 3 Key Licensing Criteria (#2)
Instruction and Assessment
• Teacher lessons and
instruction must help
children grow not only
academically but socially
as well
• Assessing students is
also considered on both
the academic and social
field.
6. 3 Key Licensing Criteria (#3)
The Professional Environment
• Teachers are
professionals and are
required to do many
things other than
simply teaching.
• They also must know
how to handle issues
such as speaking
with parents in a
professional manner
7. Things looked for in Teacher
Evaluations
• Teachers are graded on
clear and precise
performance
expectations.
• The absolute most
important factor in the
evaluations is evidence
that the students are
learning the material.
• This is most commonly
observed through state
mandated testing.
8. Reasons for the Teacher Evaluations
• Teachers are
expected to be
learning from the
feedback that they
receive.
• If they are not
adapting and
becoming more
successful their must
be consequences.
9. Why are evaluations considered
important
• They allow for teachers
to have an outside
source offer feed back
and encourage growth
even for already
established teachers.
• Teaching needs to be a
very flexible field
because generations are
constantly changing so
the evaluations offer a
quick way to find out
new successful teaching
trends.
10. Issues (1)
Imbalance in social and academic
• The Licensing process
and test to become a
teacher focuses heavily
on both the social and
academic requirements
teachers must possess.
• The teacher evaluations
however focus primarily
on student
performance.
11. Issues (2)
No professional follow up
• The process to
become a teacher
requires a knowledge
and understanding of
the professional
environment.
• Evaluations pay
literally no attention
to a teachers
professional manner.
12. Issues (3)
Lack of Creativity
• Since the largest
proportion of your
rating comes from state
mandated testing
teachers begin to only
teach to the test.
• Originally creativity in
assignments and lessons
was encouraged,
however the evaluations
make it dangerous to try
new styles of teaching.
13. Issues (4)
Scores made public
• Some evaluations are
displayed so the
public can see.
• These statistics cause
pandemonium in
school districts and
humiliate teachers
rather than
encourage growth.
14. Are Evaluations Successful?
• They try to pin point the
scores of the evaluation
mainly on state test
scores.
• They very often
contradict the skills
learned and developed
through the licensing
process.
15. Can they be Successful?
• There needs to be more
than just state mandated
states as a means to
judge the success of
teachers.
• Ranked just as highly
needs to be the teachers
ability to help kids
develop socially (Social
surveys?)
• Also direct praises and
criticisms from higher
ranking officials needs to
be totaled in.
16. Bibliography
• "Evaluation 2.0." . The New Teacher Project, 2009. Web. 26
Mar 2012. <http://tntp.org/assets/documents/Teacher-
Evaluation-Oct10F.pdf?files/Teacher-Evaluation
• Friedman, Stephen. "Grading Teachers Grading Policies." .
N.p., 1995. Web. 26 Mar 2012.
<http://www.middleweb.com/PrinGrdng.html>.
• "New York State Teacher Certification Examinations." . N.p.,
21012. Web. 26 Mar 2012. <http://www.nystce.nesinc.com/>.
