The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice: Evidence From a Survey Experiment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Houston
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Student Growth ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Growth Data ◽  
Student Growth Data

Music Teacher Evaluation and Student Growth in Music

2019 ◽  
pp. 850-869
Author(s):  
Dru Davison ◽  
Ryan Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Growth ◽  
Growth Data ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Multiple Measures ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Teacher Evaluation Systems ◽  
Student Growth Data

This chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the development and implementation of an alternative student growth measures system specifically designed by arts educators to provide teachers with a fair, flexible, and rigorous method of demonstrating teacher effectiveness as part of a multiple measures teacher evaluation system. We also present a brief overview of the Race to the Top legislation as well as the No Child Left Behind waivers in the United States as they relate to the increased attention to the use of student growth and achievement data in teacher evaluation systems. An overview of the multiple-measures evaluation systems with particular attention to the use of student growth data portion of the multiple measures is also included. The initial guidance from the US Department of Education regarding various approaches of incorporating student growth data in teacher evaluation systems is discussed. Implications for music education are also presented.

Lessons Learned Modeling "Connecting Teaching and Learning"

2011 ◽  
pp. 206-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Girod ◽  
Mark Girod ◽  
Jeff Denton
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Student Growth ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Work Samples ◽  
A Site ◽  
Teacher Education Students

While designing a web-based simulation to provide practice for teacher education students as they sought to master the complex skills expected of them as they develop work samples, the authors learned eight important lessons during the development of Cook School District. Work samples are a methodology for helping students learn to analyze their teaching by seeking connections between their work and student achievement. Cook School District serves as a site where teacher candidates begin the arduous process of learning to determine which strategies of instruction and assessment will result in greater student growth. The four years required to develop the simulation brought home eight lessons, often painfully acquired, that are shared with readers. Learning and teaching are not inherently linked. Much learning takes place without teaching, and indeed much teaching takes place without learning (Wenger, 1998).

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