Teachers speak on evaluation, unions, and reform

[via District 299 and the Associated Press]

A new study by Education Sector continues to break down the image that teachers are opposed to evaluation, interested in protecting bad teachers, and disinterested in professional development.

Some findings:

Only 26 percent of teachers say that their most recent formal evaluation was useful and effective in helping them to improve their teaching. Seventy-nine percent support strengthening the formal evaluation of probationary teachers. And nearly a third of teachers (32 percent) say that tenured teachers should be evaluated on an annual basis.

And…

Teachers say they would support the union taking an active union role in improving teacher evaluation, supporting and mentoring teachers, guiding ineffective teachers out of the profession, and negotiating new/differentiated roles/responsibilities for teachers.

Download the full study here. [pdf]

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