Have you heard of these?

• YES, and if you haven’t, you should familiarize yourself with it. Especially, if you are a teacher or wish to become one.

What do you know? What should teachers know?

• These Common Core Standards will be a critical first step to bring about real and meaningful transformation of our education system to benefit all students.
• The Common Core Standards help define  the knowledge and skills all students need to succeed in college and careers
• Expectations will be consistent for all students.
• AAPR:  An education law that requires a new performance evaluation system for classroom teachers and building principals. New York State will implement a statewide comprehensive evaluation system for school districts and boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES). The evaluation system is designed to measure teacher and principal effectiveness based on performance, including measures of student achievement and evidence of educator effectiveness in meeting New York State teacher or school leader standards.

My opinion as to why WE SHOULD have a teacher evaluation…

• To know what is going on in the classroom.
• To determine the teacher’s abilities.
• To measure the teacher’s effectiveness.
• To make the teacher accountable.
• To measure progress or regression.
• To foster competency in the teacher.
• To lay the groundwork for removing the incompetent.
• To emphasize a particular educational thrust or direction.
• To correct a problem.