DoE testing educator rating system

Georgia’s Department of Education is piloting a statewide program to professionally rate teacher educational skills.

The field study will include some 190 elementary, middle and high schools, and is meant to improve teaching performance standards.

A Department of Education official says the training program was developed over the past two years, in part, by the Board of Regents.

The training will enable administrators to rate teachers’ professional skills according to established criteria, rather than according to a supervisor’ subjective impressions.

Sessions will bring school principals and administrators together with a cross-section of teachers with varying experience, and in various subjects, including music, art and physical education.

The field testing will continue until April 2009, after which it may be implemented statewide.

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