RIDE Releases 2nd Annual Teacher Evaluations: West Warwick Tops for Highly Effective Teachers
Thursday, November 13, 2014
The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) released its second annual report on education evaluations -- and West Warwick was tops for percentage of "highly effective" teachers.
At 86%, West Warwick schools had the highest percentage of teachers ranked "highly effective" in the RIDE evaluations, with Middletown and The Learning Community just behind at 85%. The report shows that 98 percent of teachers and 99 percent of school leaders (building administrators) attained ratings of effective or highly effective.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTAccording to RIDE's mid-year survey of educators, 68 percent of teachers said their understanding of how to set student-learning objectives increased since the preceding school year, 72 percent of school leaders said they felt more confident in their ability to support teachers and administrators through the evaluation process, and 85 percent of teachers said they had received the scores based on their classroom observations, compared with 78 percent the preceding year.
The report, “RI Educator Evaluation Systems: Improving Teaching and Learning, Year 2,” is based on information from the 2013-14 school year, the second year of full implementation of educator evaluations in Rhode Island.
RIDE on the Record
“The purpose of educator evaluations is not simply to gain a high rating, and the purpose is certainly not to compare one school against others,” wrote Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist in an introduction to the report. “The purpose, as this report notes, is to ‘encourage student-focused conversations that can help educators make improvements in real time.’ Those who receive a rating of highly effective should continue to examine all facets of their teaching so as to continue to improve and to help others do so as well.”
Gist noted that many teachers will not receive formal evaluations this year, adding that “informal observations and conversations about improving instruction and advancing student achievement should be vigorous, thoughtful, and on-going.” New legislation states that tenured teachers with ratings of effective are to complete the evaluation process once every two years and those with ratings of highly effective are to complete the evaluation process once every three years.
The report contains evaluation results at the statewide and district levels only. The evaluation results for individual educators are not publicly released.
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