Mid-Year Evaluation

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Our administration just finished up the mid-year TKES evaluations for all certified staff. Talk about starting a WAR! It seems as in years past, 4s were given out like candy on Halloween. Well, this did not happen with our new principal as has caused quite a fuss at work. In truth, many 4s that were handed out in years past were not deserved. This was done because the game of favoritism was played. My new principal's belief: your walk throughs and evaluations are a measurement of growth, therefore, you should receive all 4s on your first formative evaluation. Makes sense to me. Chatter quickly spread throughout the building, evaluations were shared, and emails were sent to leadership demanding their scores be changed. I never was one to share my evaluations with anyone I worked with, because I felt that it was personal and to better my professional skills and growth as an educator. What would you do if you were the new administrator and you were faced with this?

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  1. UnknownNovember 22, 2015 at 5:48 PM

    We have a new assistant principal who measures teacher performance by the book. So there is chatter amongst the masses as well. In all fairness educators must review TKES and become familiar with what merits exemplary scores.

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  2. UnknownDecember 5, 2015 at 5:10 AM

    Did you mean to say they "shouldn't" receive all 4's? I can understand the point about measuring growth, but do you have to rate someone lower on the first evaluation just so you can show/document growth? If they demonstrate exemplary performance and meet all the level-4 criteria in TKES, then how can your administrator justify giving them 3s? I think there are serious flaws with the evaluation system, and one of them is lack of training and consistency for administrators.

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