Dear colleagues,
The teacher evaluation system that the UFT, NYSUT and the State Education Department agreed to jointly support as legislation will make the process much fairer, more transparent and more objective.
Our goal was to create a teacher evaluation system that will accurately identify teachers’ strengths and weaknesses, provide teachers with opportunities and supports to improve their skills and include a fair and expedient process to deal with struggling teachers.
The evaluation system will include content knowledge, pedagogical practices, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, use of assessment techniques/data, effective collaborative relationships, and reflection of teaching practices (criteria that currently exist) as well as multiple measures of student learning such as test scores, classroom work, presentations and projects. The mix of those measures in New York City will be negotiated between us and the Department of Education.
At a time when other states have agreed to base 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation on student test scores, we have capped the use of state test scores at 25 percent so we can rein in test prep and give our students the well-rounded education they deserve.
Since the agreement was announced on Tuesday, we’ve received many questions from members about how precisely the new process would work: How will teachers be judged under the new system? How much say will teachers have in measures used to evaluate them? How will the new system evaluate those who do not teach classes that culminate with students taking standardized state tests? How will it affect the granting of tenure? How will the plan protect due process rights?
We’ve created this detailed Q&A to answer these and other questions.
We hope that this new evaluation system will allow us to make our schools better places for kids to learn – also making them better places for us to work.
Sincerely,
Michael Mulgrew
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