Teacher accountability research powerpoint

Teacher Accountability

Your child is assigned to one of the following…

The Great TeacherThe Average TeacherThe Poor Teacher who needs another career

How do you know? How will your child fair?

How do they measure up?

The current components of teacher accountability systems need to be revised to adequately reflect the result of proper techniques and

student improvement.

Houston WE have a PROBLEM!

http://www.thefrustratedteacher.com/2010/03/sunday-cartoon-fun-accountability.html

Current Issues with Teacher Accountability

Components“teachers do not have control over all the variables that lead to successful student performance on external tests”“a large scale test is too blunt to determine how well an individual students is learning”

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“Teachers need professional development in order to develop the understanding that leads to commitment. Through teacher commitment the classroom realities change for our students.”


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“We need teacher accountability…the kind that builds capacity not creates fear…accountable for grounding professional practices in best available research…providing students with engaging and relevant lessons…”


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“High resolution accountability …emphasizes information feedback and continuous improvement…takes time, leadership, attention to details of practice and a culture of reflective practice.”


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The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future believes “peer assistance and review systems are successful, gauge teacher competence with more useful measures and emphasize assistance and professional growth rather than punishment.”


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“Today teacher accountability has come to mean how well a teacher’s students perform on standardized tests.”“Our standardized tests…are nowhere near sophisticated enough…to be used as a real measure of performance.”


Components

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Education historian, Diane Ravitch studies of teacher effectiveness wrote, the scores “reflected something other than what the teachers did…”“Test scores do not make an evaluation system.”


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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/teachers/obama-and-jay-matthews-and-teac.html

The goal of this research is to evaluate current teacher accountability systems to highlight their deficiency as well as offer possible components for an efficient system.

Research Purpose

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Trends in preparedness of students for higher-level education or college show that our

students are being adequately prepared. Even what is considered to be the standard of determining teacher effectiveness is not

seeming to meet the rigor to reflect success on college-entrance exams or in college. If we

plan to produce students who can be ultimately contributing citizens, the testing

that hold teacher accountable should directly reflect their preparedness and the

effectiveness of our teachers.

Significance of Research

Significance of Research

Video clip of Joel Klein on Teacher Accountability

Whether for one of these or some other reason, “accountability” is now a major issue. It’s widely believed that if America doesn’t shape up, scientists and engineers from beyond our borders will soon be eating our technological lunch.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7359553n

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Conclusion

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/btp/pdfs/stlouis_accountability_2005.pdf

Answers Anyone?

Approaches to ensure quality teachers in classes:

Evaluate teacher preparation programs on a continual basisEncourage performance-based evaluation in all states, districts and schools.Institute peer review systems and teacher mentoring programs to encourage new instructional techniques and continued progress

Conclusion

http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/12/28/1228.htm

Answers Anyone?

Setting up an adequate teacher evaluation system based upon student performance measures requires at least the following…

See article

http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/12/28/1228.htm

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jones, K. (1998, May/June). Teacher Accountability: High Resolution, Not High Stakes. NCTM Dialogues. Retrieved from http://www.nctm.org/resources

U.S. Department of Education. (1998, September). Improving Teacher Accountability and

Incentives. Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/PromPractice/chapter7.html

Strauss, V. (2010, March 15). On Obama (and Jay Matthews) and teacher accountability. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com

http://www.nctm.org/resources

http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/PromPractice/chapter7.html



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ballard, K. & Bates, A. (2008). Making a Connection between Student Achievement, Teacher Accountability and Quality Classroom Instruction. (The Qualitative Report Vol. 13). Retrieved from

http://www.nova.edu/sss/QR/QR13-4/ballard.pdf

Who is Acountable for Children’s Education? (2005). PBS Newshour. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/btp/pdfs/stlouis_accountability_2005.pdf

Allen, M. (1999). Student Results and Teacher Accountability. (ECS Policy Brief). Retrieved from Education Commission of the States website: http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/12/28/1228.htm

http://www.nova.edu/sss/QR/QR13-4/ballard.pdf

