The Minnesota Department of Education is creating a model teacher evaluation as part of the state’s bid to close the achievement gap. The model must: embed support and professional development; include multiple measures of effectiveness; be transparent, sustainable, and flexible, and lead to increased student success. MDE and Education Minnesota are partnering with VIVA Teachers to hear classroom teachers’ ideas about how to construct an effective teacher evaluation system. Your ideas will become a key resource for the MDE Teacher Evaluation Work Group and a group of you will be invited to discuss your recommendations with Governor Dayton, Commissioner Cassellius and President Dooher.
We need your ideas, your classroom experience, and your participation. Share your voice. Speak out. Make change happen!
VIVA Teachers is a product of New Voice Strategies, a nonprofit whose goal is to raise the level of teachers' voices in education policy. This online conversation is a joint venture of Education Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Education, but VIVA Teachers is a neutral third party. This conversation is open only to classroom teachers, content area specialists, guidance counselors and other classroom professionals who have direct contact with students. Join us and leverage your expertise, ideas and professionalism to effect change.
Our Question
Minnesota is developing its model teacher evaluation right now. To inform that process, tell us: What makes the difference between a good teacher and a great teacher? How would you measure whether a teacher is "good" or "great"?
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Richard is a National Board Certified Teacher who has helped write evaluations and says his own evaluations have helped him improve his practice. What do you think? Could the state create a model evaluation that would give teachers some flexibility over how they are evaluated? How could that work? Would it make the evaluation a more effective tool for helping good teachers become great teachers? |
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Teachers should be involved ...
Richard R., High School
As a social studies teacher I have been developing goals around local assessments ...
Comments (4) | 7th Sep 2012
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Richard is a National Board Certified Teacher who has helped write evaluations and says his own evaluations have helped him improve his practice. What do you think? Could the state create a model evaluation that would give teachers some flexibility over how they are evaluated? How could that work? Would it make the evaluation a more effective tool for helping good teachers become great teachers? |
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Patricia's concern about the value-added model is one shared by a number of Minnesota teachers. For a brief tutorial on how it would work, check out this from MDE:
http://varc.wceruw.org/tutorials/Oak/index.htm
What do you think about how value-added calculations would work for your evaluation? |
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Concerned About Value-Added ...
Patricia M., High School
I have just recently begun to educate myself about the Value Added Model of ...
Comments (10) | 13th Sep 2012
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Patricia's concern about the value-added model is one shared by a number of Minnesota teachers. For a brief tutorial on how it would work, check out this from MDE:
http://varc.wceruw.org/tutorials/Oak/index.htm
What do you think about how value-added calculations would work for your evaluation? |
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