The August 28th Principal Insight blog entry provided viewpoints on revised teacher evaluation processes from school divisions in various parts of our country. Shortly after this blog was posted, an article appeared in Education Week that offers a position challenging the multi-step, time consuming processes associated with many of the revised evaluation programs. Mike Schmoker’s article, “The Next Education Fad – Complex Teacher Evaluations That Don’t Work” presents an argument for an effective teacher evaluation with a minimal set of criteria. The timing of the article may be a little late for some states’ education evaluation programs, but the thoughts are interesting.
You may read the article at: www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/08/29/02schmoker_ep.h32.html?cmp=ENL-EU-MOSTPOP
