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Welcome to the Chicago Teacher Evaluation Project. This project is designed to develop a system for evaluating teachers that is fair, that has teacher buy-in, that is convincing to stakeholders who are not teachers, and that is affordable.

Other pages at this wiki include Original Listserv Posts that helped to launch this initiative, and op-eds written at the time of its launch.Feel free to develop pages as the need arises. This project has no official leader, so use the wiki in a democratic fashion and make changes to the site as you see fit.

We might proceed in a Hillocksian manner, e.g.

1. Propose a means of assessing teaching. 2. Identify the assumptions behind it. 3. Where possible, include supporting theory, research, or other source of perspective or evidence. 4. Make sure to explain how the plan can be afforded.

Assumptions: 1. Teacher assessment should:
 * be fair
 * be reliable and valid
 * have teacher buy-in
 * be convincing to other stakeholders
 * be affordable
 * draw on multiple sources of evidence
 * take a developmental approach that relies on improving teaching, not punishing instances of teaching considered ineffective
 * involve mentoring at early stages and beyond if necessary
 * be considered part of professional development toward articulated ends
 * involve multiple perspectives
 * involve consequences, including incentives and disincentives

OK, that's all for starters; got to do the Day Job. Your turn. p