TQ Connection
Making the Connections between Educator Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Instructional Practice, and Student Achievement
Determining how best to develop and assess educator effectiveness is a central focus in states and districts across the county. A substantial change in teacher evaluation today is the inclusion of student growth as a criterion for effectiveness. In many states, this component of the evaluation system constitutes 50 percent or more of a teacher’s overall rating. Isolated changes within a teacher evaluation system alone, however, are unlikely to produce the desired changes in teacher practice or gains in student achievement. A systematic approach that coherently engages all components of educator effectiveness and addresses all areas of school accountability, assessment, and teacher development and support is necessary for a teacher evaluation system that produces results.
Innovation Configurations: Preparing and Supporting Teachers to Provide Quality Instruction
Recognizing the connection between quality preparation and highly effective teachers, the TQ Center developed a series of Innovation Configurations designed to support state teacher preparation and professional development efforts to improve teaching practices in the classroom. Visitors to this resource will find a focus on the growing body of empirical evidence that identifies research-based strategies designed to improve student achievement.
Innovation Configuration
Accompanying TQ Connection Issue Paper or Research & Policy Brief
Barriers to the Preparation of Highly Qualified Teachers in Reading
Effective Classroom Management: Teacher Preparation and Professional Development
Teacher Preparation to Deliver Inclusive Services to Students With Disabilities
Teacher Preparation and Professional Development in Effective Learning Strategy Instruction
Teacher Preparation for Response to Intervention in Middle and High Schools
Linking Assessment and Instruction: Teacher Preparation and Professional Development
TQ Connection Discussion Forum
In 2008, the TQ Center unveiled a new, interactive space on its website to promote communication between institutes of higher education, regional comprehensive centers, state education agencies, and practitioners in an effort to link conversations about special education and general education populations. This interactive space, the Online Discussion Forum, hosted 14 discussions between February 2008 and June 2010. The discussion topics included multiple aspects of teacher preparation and response to intervention. The following topics were discussed. These discussions are being archived and will be made available soon.
- Effective Classroom Management
- Response to Intervention: Multitiered Interventions
- Response to Intervention: Critical Assessment Strategies
- Response to Intervention: Evidence-Based Instruction
- Response to Intervention: Prevention/Early Intervention Strategies for Challenging Behavior
- Response to Intervention: Implementation in Secondary Schools
- Response to Intervention: Learning Strategies
- Response to Interventions: Evidenced-Based Mathematics Interventions
- Response to Intervention: Addressing Disproportionality
- Response to Intervention: Teacher Preparation for RTI in Middle and High Schools
- Preparing Teachers of English Language Learners
- Linking Assessment and Instruction: What Do Teachers Need to Know and Are They Prepared?
- Teacher Preparation in Mathematics
- Teaching as a Clinical Practice Profession
