The Politics and Practice of Teacher Evaluation Policy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Federal, state, and local policy efforts to reform teacher evaluation have sought to improve the quality of teaching and student outcomes in US public schools. In this panel, we will discuss research associated with the policy and politics of teacher evaluation, providing historical context of teacher evaluation policies in the United States as well as the important roles that instructional and educational leaders play in implementing teacher evaluation policies. We also discuss the development of a collaborative effort to re-invent teacher preparation across the state of New York through the design of a clinical, rigorous, professional educator preparation program that seeks to balance accountability policies and economic development goals within the state.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Politics of Education

Chair

• Sally J. Zepeda, University of Georgia

Papers

• A Policy and Political History of Educational Supervision and Teacher Evaluation - William Kyle Ingle, University of Louisville; Jane Clark Lindle, Clemson University

• Accountability Policies, Control, and Teachers' Work in American Schools - Richard Ingersoll, University of Pennsylvania; Gregory J. Collins, University of Pennsylvania

• National Policy Standards: Changes in Instructional Supervision in the Wake of Recent Federal Legislation - Fred C. Lunenburg, Sam Houston State University

• Necessity Is the Mother of Reinvention: Making Teaching Excellence the Norm Through Policy and Practice - Nancy Zimpher, State University of New York

Discussant

• Judith A. Ponticell, University of South Florida