percent of teachers agree that the teacher evaluation
process has led to improvements in their teaching,
and 63 percent agree that it has led to improvements
in student learning. However, there remains room
for improvement in implementation; 32 percent of
teachers still feel that teacher evaluations are not
special education teachers, or that the rubric contains
conducted fairly.19
too many items for teachers to cover in one lesson.
Participants in SCORE’s 2015 Listening Tour noted
that Tennessee’s teacher evaluation system
has fostered more meaningful conversations
with administrators and has resulted in higherquality feedback on their teaching. Teachers and
administrators also appreciate the specificity of the
evaluation rubric used during classroom observations.
However, some participants mentioned ongoing
challenges with implementation of teacher evaluation.
Some administrators feel overwhelmed by the number
of evaluations they are required to complete. Others
feel the observation rubric is not well suited to certain
types of teachers, such as physical education and
Sixty-eight percent of
teachers agree that the
teacher evaluation process
has led to improvements
in their teaching, and 63
percent agree that it has
led to improvements in
student learning.
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