It adds that any tests used must be of high quality, must be transparent to teachers and parents, and must be only one measure of many in assessing the performance of teachers and students alike.
By making these skills transparent to teachers, parents and children, and by providing a range of activities designed to progressively monitor and develop these skills, the Ottawa-Carleton school district is empowering all those involved in the process of skill development.
"A lot of people are arguing the methodology used must be so transparent that a teacher can go to their dining room table with a $2 calculator and scratch pad and calculate her value-added," Sanders said.
City Hall should work with the union to implement a comprehensive, transparent and rigorous teacher-evaluation system.
Unlike another recent publication [ 2], this review did not focus on 'teaching effectiveness' as overall course ratings do not necessarily measure effectiveness (they might do, but unless the underlying construct is well defined and transparent to both teachers and learners, this cannot be taken for granted).
Atkinson is on stage almost constantly, but as an often silent, almost transparent figure, a hopeless teacher who prises himself from his staffroom armchair to make a gaffe or meekly receive a snub.
And then once we have a transparent rubric, we want teachers to understand what they need to do to get better.
It allows students to make the relatively opaque process of class and teacher selection fully transparent, by providing grade distributions and teacher feedback to allow a student to shape their individual class schedule, based on their own needs and style (e.g., "I am fine with exams, but I hate teachers who give tons of quizzes").
But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused and I am so powerless to do anything about it that my claim to be a teacher seems a transparent sham.
Forcing states to be transparent about the quality of teachers in high-poverty schools will create pressure to make changes, Duncan said, so that low-income children will have equal access to good teaching compared with their more affluent peers.
With respect to program implementation, I noted previously the need to investigate ways to make connections among the STEM disciplines more transparent for both students and teachers.
