Gates Foundation Perspectives on Empowering Effective Teachers?
According to the first of a new series of briefs from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, four strategies are all vital to improving the recruitment, placement, evaluation, retention, and support of highly effective teachers:
- adoption of multidimensional measures of teacher effectiveness;
- creation of better teacher evaluation tools and processes;
- making the tenure decision a more meaningful milestone; and
- the design of career pathways and differentiating compensation.
The brief – Empowering Effective Teachers: Readiness for Reform – also offers examples of how various school districts and charter school organizations plan to implement these strategies in the years ahead.
