The push for accountability in public schooling has extended to the measurement of teacher performance, accelerated by federal efforts through Race to the Top. Currently, a large number of states and districts across the country are computing measures of teacher performance based on the standardized test scores of their students and using them in…

Describes a $50 million research and development program begun by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) to develop assessment instruments and prototypes for its teacher certification system. NBPTS's mission is to develop a national voluntary certification system for experienced teachers. (FMW)

A recent experiment in French second language teacher training in Indonesia, where French culture has little or no historical place, uses teacher evaluation to improve teacher training. The project has also succeeded in bringing together professionals and organizations that generally have had little contact. (MSE)

This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a teacher evaluation system at Eisenhower Elementary School in Pinellas County, Florida. The evaluation system developed was designed to address the goals of team teaching and individualized instruction. The system is intended to evaluate teacher performance in three areas,…

Since the announcement in 1999 of a plan to tie teachers' salary increases to student achievement by Denver Public Schools, there has been a flood of nationwide policy activity around teacher compensation. This paper examines pay plans in Denver, Toledo, Minneapolis, and New York City, offering a snapshot of the changing landscape of teacher…

For the purposes of this booklet, staff development is defined as "all those learning activities organized, conducted, and funded by the local school district that are designed to improve the on-the-job performance of district employees." Comprehensive school district staff development programs provide activities focusing on curriculum and…

An early childhood teacher education program using developmental perspectives as an organizing framework for formulating competencies and interweaving courses and practicum experiences is described. Emphasis is placed on understanding the cognitive and behavioral development of children and their maturation patterns. Included in this document is a…

A bibliography and a review of the literature on the evaluation of competency based teacher education programs are presented. The literature review highlights over 150 references which would be helpful to program evaluators with little formal training in evaluation, and covers several aspects of educational evaluation. The general theory of…

A description of the staff development program in the Dade County (Florida) Public School District is presented. The remarks focus on many elements of the program including needs assessment for staff training, the use of television in various capacities, supplementing the expense of continuing education for teachers and administrators, incentive…

The multi-faceted role of the advisor in an open education setting is defined in this paper. Background information on the development of the open corridor approach to elementary education (created in America by Lillian Weber), the subsequent emergence of the teacher support position of advisor and the resulting advisor training program is…

This report describes the implementation of a training program designed to help Head Start teachers and assistants use the Responsive Model Head Start program in their classroom. Teachers trained at five locations in California with workshops and inservice training units, were required to study materials, videotape themselves with children, and…

Provided is a competency based career ladder model (developed for Colorado) to enable universities and colleges to improve preservice programs for teachers of the moderately and severely retarded, and to aid state and local agencies in planning meaningful inservice programs. Administration requires cooperation of state groups such as the state…

A project was designed to develop a system that would prepare adult vocational instructors to design, develop, and implement competency-based programs for their students. Additional objectives included identifying occupational competencies, developing and field testing vocational materials, and evaluating participating instructors' teaching…

This report is a description of the Flexible Learning System (FLS) project as viewed from the three major work phases of development, research and implementation. The Flexibile Learning System (FLS) began as an outgrowth of the Far West Laboratory's several years of investment in research and development of a Responsive Model of Early Childhood…