An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with aligning state ...

A year since its implementation, teachers are still questioning the effectiveness of Student Growth Objectives in classroom evaluation. (Star Ledger file photo) What’s old is new again. That’s ...

The value of subjective and objective evaluations of teacher effectiveness Date: October 17, 2011 Source: Columbia Business School Summary: A new study has found that subjective evaluations are ...

Shaker Heights teacher Paul Springstubb practices the time-honored approach of shooting the messenger when condemning the Ohio school report cards in his Forum article"School report cards are ...

It has to start with what the teacher objectives are. And if technology isn’t the tool that addresses that, then that may not be the right use that day.

He suggests an alternative: using value-added modeling to generate objective data on how each teacher performs, and use that data as part of teacher evaluations. Winters analyzes data from Florida ...

By Derek C. Briggs, Rajendra Chattergoon, and Amy Burkhardt. The process of setting and evaluating Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) has become increasingly popular as an example where classroom ...