At standing-room-only meeting of the state BOE, administration puts rough percentages to components of teacher ratings
By John Mooney
The Christie administration yesterday continued to fill in the details of next year’s new teacher evaluation system, including how — and how much — test scores will be used to determine final ratings.
Plenty of questions remain. But by presenting their proposed regulations for the new system to the BOE, state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf and his top staff took an important first step, putting specific percentages to how much state test scores and other factors would count toward teacher ratings.
For teachers in grades and subjects that are evaluated by state tests, such as elementary school language arts and math, student progress on those exams would count for 35 percent of an educator’s rating in the first year, officials said. The balance of the rating would come from supervisors’ evaluations of teacher practice (50 percent) and other undefined achievement measures (15 percent).
Officials stressed that state test scores — by far the most controversial piece component — would apply to only about one-fifth of all teachers, and there would be a variety of other measures, often depending on grade and subjects.
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