San Diego County Grand Jury • 2013-2014

Evaluating the Evaluators Teacher Evaluation

Published: April 28, 2014 10 pages

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Findings 5 findings

F01

There is no personalized process to give individualized evaluations of teachers. Fact: Tenured teachers are evaluated infrequently on whatever schedule they and their administrators agree to. Fact: There is nothing in the contracts regarding tenured teachers who may be suffering from the effects of “burn out”.

F02

There is no process to deal with “burn out” of tenured teachers, except transferring them from school to school.

F03

A few enterprising principals are using creative new programs such as Professional Learning Communities to help teachers through mentoring and collaborative interchange of strategies. Ibid 17 Graph of math data viewed in site visit [Note: need more complete reference.] 5 Fact: The Stull Act is state law mandating the use of student performance as an element in teacher evaluation, which some unions/associations override.

F04

Proactive administrators have successfully applied the principles of Professional Learning Communities to improve the performances of both teachers and their students. Fact: Some teachers on their own are proactively seeking ways through peer mentoring and Professional Learning Communities (PLC) to better their teaching strategies. Fact: A model system for teacher evaluation beyond the traditional proscription would contain the following elements:  Student performance;  Participation in professional collaborative programs for interchange of ideas;

F05

A teacher evaluation model containing elements of student performance and collaborative interchange of ideas can achieve great success for the student as well as the teacher.

Recommendations 8

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Take a proactive position in developing guidelines for the evaluation of
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Encourage and support district superintendents to give input to the
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Develop and support programs that give more individualized attention to
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Develop programs to evaluate tenured teachers more frequently to identify
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Empower districts to develop innovative practices in evaluating teachers,
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Give oversight and input to the districts' contracts to assure that teacher
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<b>Encourage districts to allow teachers time for collaborative participation</b>
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Develop a system to measure effects of teacher evaluation on student

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Alpine Union Elementary School District School District

Bonsall Unified School District School District

Borrego Springs Unified School District School District

Cajon Valley Union Elementary School District School District

Cardiff Elementary School District School District

Carlsbad Unified School District School District

Chula Vista Elementary School District School District

Coronado Unified School District School District

Dehesa Elementary School District School District

Del Mar Union Elementary School District School District

San Diego County Office of Education Agency