Alaska Staff Development Network – 2013 Spring Leadership RetreatEmerging Trends and issues in Teacher Evaluation: Implications for AlaskaDeep Dive Break-Out SessionBill and Melinda Gates FoundationMeasures of Effective Teaching Study - Findings and RecommendationsSession Leader: Al Bertani, RAPPS Senior Design Consultant
Learning about Teaching – Initial Findings from the MET ProjectPublished by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2010
A new approach to development and evaluation that teachers endorse and that helps all teachers improve.
Goals of the Gates Foundation MET Study
Learning about Teaching – Initial Findings from the MET ProjectPublished by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2010
1. Whenever feasible, a teacher’s evaluation should include his/her students’ achievement gains.
2. Any additional components of the evaluation (eg. classroom observations, student feedback) should be demonstrably relate to student achievement gains.
3. The measures should include feedback on specific aspects of a teachers’ practice and support teacher growth and development.
Premises of the Gates Foundation MET Study
Gates MET Study
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Learning about Teaching – Initial Findings from the MET ProjectPublished by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2010
If we want to change the curve of improvement, we must…
Identify great teachers
Find out what makes them so effective
Transfer those skills to others
Strategies of the Gates Foundation MET Study
Learning about Teaching – Initial Findings from the MET ProjectPublished by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2010
Measure 1 Student achievement gains on different assessments.
Measure 2 Classroom observations and teacher reflections. Measure 3 Teacher pedagogical content
knowledge.Measure 4 Student perceptions of the
classroom instructional environment.
Measure 5 Teacher perceptions of working conditions and instructional
support at their school.
Data Collected-Gates Foundation MET Study
Learning about Teaching – Initial Findings from the MET ProjectPublished by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2010
1. In every grade and subject studied, a teacher’s past successes in raising student achievement on state tests is one of the strongest predictors of his/her ability to do it again.
2. Teachers with the highest value-added scores on state tests also tend to help students develop a deeper conceptual understanding as well.
3. The average student knows effective teaching when he/she experiences it.
4. Valid feedback need not be limited to test scores alone.
Gates MET Study Findings – Phase 1
MET Working with Teachers to Develop Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching June 2010
TODAY FUTURE SCENARIO
High Level Principal Evaluations Only
Rigorous Classroom Observations
Input Observations Student Feedback
Seniority Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Degrees Earned School Working Conditions
Moving From and To…
MET Project Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching January 2013
Question 1 Can measures of effective teaching identify teachers who better help students learn?
Question 2 How much weight should be placed on each measure of effective teaching?
Question 3 How can teachers be assured trustworthy results from classroom observations?
Research Study Questions – Phase 2
MET Project Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching January 2013
1. Effective teaching can be measured. Teachers previously identified as more effective caused students to learn more. Groups of teachers identified as less effective caused students to learn less.
Major Research Findings
2. Balanced weights indicate multiple aspects of effective teaching. Teaching is too complex for any single measure of performance to capture it accurately. Trade off’s to using different models.
3. Adding a second observer increases reliability significantly more than having the same observer score an additional lesson.
Adding outside observers can provide an on-going check against in-school bias.
MET Project Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching January 2013
Framing What We Know Now…
MET Project Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching January 2013
Lesson 1 Student perception surveys and classroomobservations can provide meaningful feedback toteachers.
Lesson 2 Implementing specific procedures in evaluation systems can increase trust in the data and the
results.
Lesson 3 Each measure adds something of value.
Lesson 4 A balanced approach is most sensible when assigning weights to form a composite measure.
Lesson 5 There is great potential in using video for teacherfeedback and for the training and assessment of observers.
What We Know Now
How Teacher Development Could Revolutionize Our Schools?By Bill Gates published in the Washington PostFebruary 28, 2011
“We know that of all the variables under a school’s control, the single most decisive factor in student achievement is excellent teaching. It is astonishing what great teachers can do for their students. Yet compared with the countries that outperform us in education, we do very little to measure, develop, and reward excellent teaching. We have been expecting teachers to be effective withoutgiving them feedback and training.”
Influence of the Gates Foundation
How Teacher Development Could Revolutionize Our Schools?By Bill Gates published in the Washington PostFebruary 28, 2011
Proxies for improving student achievement… Automatic salary increases based on seniority ($50 billion per year)
Bump in pay for advanced degrees ($15 billion per year)
Reducing class size (U.S. has twice as many teachers per student
than they did in 1960.
Influence of the Gates Foundation
Learning about Teaching – Initial Findings from the MET ProjectPublished by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation2010
1. Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) - Pianta and Hamre
2. Framework for Teaching – Danielson
3. Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI) – Hill & Ball4. Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations
(PLATO) – Grossman5. Quality Science Teaching (QST) - Pecheone
Evaluation Instruments Used in the MET Study
ATLANTA Not Evident Emerging Proficient Exemplary
COLLEGE READY PROMISE Level 1 Level II Level III Level IV
DENVER Ineffective Approaching Effective Distinguished
HILLSBOROUGH Requires Action
Developing Accomplished Exemplary
MEMPHIS Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
PITTSBURGH Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished
PRINCE GEORGE’S
Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished
TULSA Ineffective Needs Improvement
Effective Highly Effective
Superior
Gates Partnership Sites – Levels of Performance
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