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‘MET’ Made Simple: Building Research-Based Teacher Evaluations
Key lessons from the Gates Foundation's 'Measures of Effective Teaching' (MET) initiative.
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Teachers matter.
Nothing our schools can do to give every child a great education matters more than giving them great teachers. Ending educational inequality starts with providing excellent teachers to the students who need them most.
Fishman Prize
Great teaching deserves recognition. The Fishman Prize for Superlative Classroom Practice honors excellent teachers with $25,000 and the chance to share their knowledge with educators nationwide. Applications close Friday.
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TNTP’s 17 Teaching Fellows programs streamline the path to teaching for talented professionals and college graduates. Since 2000, more than 26,000 Fellows have joined urban districts nationwide, teaching where they’re needed most.
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They deserve a profession that expects excellence – and school leaders who offer honest assessments of their strengths and weaknesses, helpful feedback, and a commitment to their development.
Providing Useful Feedback
Having honest conversations with teachers about how to improve can be tough. But one exceptional school in D.C. shows that when a school commits to regular feedback, teachers thrive – and students excel.
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These five simple questions and an easy-to-use scorecard help school leaders pick a teacher observation tool to keep classroom observations fair, focused and accurate.
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In 2010, New York City principals made the most rigorous teacher tenure decisions on record, defying a history in which teachers typically received tenure by default, a change possible in any district around the country.
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For more teachers to be successful, everything that influences teacher quality – from policies at the state and federal level to the systems used in districts every day – must prioritize and support effective teaching.
'MET' Made Simple
TNTP outlines key findings of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) initiative, and provides implementation recommendations for policymakers.
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Value-added isn’t perfect—no single measure of performance is—but the balance of evidence supports its use. Alongside observations, it can help paint an accurate and objective picture of what’s happening in the classroom.
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Evaluation 2.0 proposes six design standards that any rigorous and fair teacher evaluation system should meet in order to become a useful tool for teachers and school leaders.
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