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Ellen Moir, Executive Director, New Teacher Center

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Ellen Moir is founder and executive director of the New Teacher Center. For more than twenty years, she has pioneered innovative approaches to new teacher development, research on new teacher practice, and the design and administration of teacher induction programs. Ellen continues to work with the Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project and is an advocate for new teachers across the country. Ellen has received national recognition for her work, including the 2008 National Staff Development Council Contribution to the Field award, the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. 2005 Prize in Education and the 2003 Distinguished Teacher Educator Award from the California Council on Teacher Education.

Moir is the author of several articles and book chapters and has produced video series related to new teacher development. Her work has been supported by over twenty private foundations and donors, the National Science Foundation, and several state and federal agencies.

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October 20, 2009 11:10 AM

RE: How Should Teacher Effectiveness Be Assessed?

“The Widget Effect” report offered a comprehensive and crisp diagnosis of the problem with existing teacher evaluation systems. Evaluations typically do not result in sufficient gradations to reward the most exemplary educators and hold the most ineffective accountable for unacceptable performance. Even more important, they rarely provide informative feedback to help individual educators improve their practice. How do we best define and measure teacher effectiveness? Some conceive the definition of teacher effectiveness as exclusively based upon value-added student achievement data. While value-added data can be used to reward and recognize teacher performance and should be used to inform teacher…  Read more

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Latest response: Robert GreensteinNovember 20, 2009 3:38 pm