New teacher ratings not dramatically different [View all]

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more good reporting from chicago's public radio station, wbez

How do teachers and principals feel?
As CPS rolled out the new evaluations, the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research surveyed almost 1,200 administrators and more than 20,000 teachers about the new system.

Overwhelmingly, teachers and principals felt the new evaluations encouraged professional growth and improved instruction in the classroom. Eighty-seven percent of teachers said their evaluator--in most cases their principal--was fair and unbiased.

But researchers found 57 percent of teachers surveyed still believed the new evaluation system relied too heavily on student growth. They also found many teachers did not fully understand how much student growth would count both for themselves and their colleagues.

http://www.wbez.org/news/new-teacher-ratings-not-dramatically-different-108703