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HiPointDem

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Mon Oct 29, 2012, 03:13 PM
Oct 2012

Teacher Evaluation Training and Certification: Lessons Learned from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project

Catherine McClellan, PhD

Key participants in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project, Dr. Catherine McClellan, Charlotte Danielson, and Mark Atkinson, have released the inaugural Practitioner Series for Teacher Evaluation report titled, Teacher Evaluator Training and Certification: Lessons Learned from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. The report, based on the experts' collaborative work on video-taping and scoring over 23,000 lessons across 3,000 classrooms for the MET project, is designed to offer state and district leaders with practical insights. In particular, the report highlights best practices of evaluator training, an often overlooked component of cutting-edge teacher effectiveness systems.

http://www.danielsongroup.org/article.aspx?page=TeacherEvaluation

The Framework for Teaching Proficiency System was developed by Teachscape in collaboration with Charlotte Danielson and Educational Testing Service (ETS) and was born out of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Proficiency System integrates observer training, scoring practice and a proficiency assessment into a complete system and includes more than 15 hours of self-paced online training and over 100 master-scored videos and classroom scenarios covering all proficiency ranges for grades K-12.

http://www.teachscape.com/about/press-and-news/2012/pennsylvania-department-of-education-selects-teachscape%E2%80%99s-framework-for-teaching-proficiency-system.html


Interesting thing about Teachscape is it's owned by ABS Capital Partners, a spin-off from Alex Brown & Sons (the original banking house from which Brown Brothers Harriman came):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex._Brown_%26_Sons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS_Capital_Partners


The guiding luminaries of Alex Brown include former CIA Director Buzz Krongard:

http://www.nndb.com/company/856/000124484/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Krongard


ABS heavily into education 'investment':

- American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEI) is a leading provider of online post-secondary education focused primarily on serving the military and public services communities. APEI completed an IPO in November 2007.

- Whitney International University System is a leading provider of postsecondary education in Latin America.

- Rosetta Stone, Inc. (NYSE:RST) is a leading worldwide provider of interactive language-learning technology solutions used by schools, businesses, government organizations and millions of individuals around the world, with course offerings in 30 languages.

- Teachscape, Inc. provides industry-leading solutions, technology and services for K-12 and higher education markets.



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