Supporting State Efforts to Design and Implement Teacher Evaluation Systems
TQ Center Workshop
December 13–14, 2010
Denver, CO
Summary
This workshop was designed to provide regional comprehensive center staff with increased knowledge of select topics related to the creation and implementation of comprehensive evaluations. The workshop included four working sessions on the following topics: using evaluation data to support and improve effectiveness, measuring student growth in tested subjects, measuring student growth in nontested subjects and for teachers of at-risk students, and understanding the basics of quality assessments for measuring growth.
Presentations
Measuring Teachers' Contribution to Student Learning Growth for "The Other 69%"
Laura Goe and Lynn Holdheide
Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation: Putting the Pieces Together
Sabrina Laine
Assessing Teacher Effectiveness
Charlotte Danielson
Using Value Added Models to Monitor Teacher Effects
Pete Goldschmidt
The Colorado Growth Model: Accountability 2.0 & Educator Effectiveness
Richard Wenning
Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and a District's Approach to Teacher Effectiveness Work
Theress Pidick
Developing and Selecting Student Growth Measures for Use in Teacher Evaluation
Margaret Heritage