In my experience, both teachers and administrators believe that the teacher evaluation system in their district is not ideal. As a teacher, the evaluation process varied from being told what my goals and objectives would be for the year to writing my own annual goals and objectives that are never revisited throughout the school year, except me when I am asked to reflect on what I did to achieve my goals.  I taught at a school where classroom observations were typically very few and far between and usually did not follow-up with ANY meaningful feedback. I have also taught at Continue Reading