NEA-New Mexico Praises New P.E.D. Transitional Teacher Evaluation

By NEA NM

Commenting on the new, transitional Teacher Evaluation for New Mexico Teachers for the current school year, National Education Association – New Mexico President Betty Patterson thanked Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Public Education Department Secretary Karen Trujillo for having heard and responded positively to the concerns and hopes of teachers throughout New Mexico.

 

“NEA-New Mexico is very happy to have a Governor and Secretary of PED who understand and are demonstrating their deep respect for the importance of the hard work teachers perform every day. We thank Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Public Education Department Secretary Karen Trujillo, and their teams for the positive changes to teacher evaluation for the current year.

 

We look forward with high hopes to the work of the newly formed Educator Growth and Development Team as it engages stakeholders across New Mexico to incorporate appropriate voices in the design of a new, permanent teacher evaluation system,” she added.

 

“The transitional system helps students by putting teachers, not standardized test corporations, back in control over classroom teaching, and it will improve and showcase our teaching.  Increasing classroom observation to fifty-percent the share of the total scoring for teachers is appropriate.   So too is the increased importance of planning, preparation and professionalism to forty-percent of the total. Student and family surveys will account for ten percent in the transitional system.  All teachers will be able to show their hands-on abilities as they are observed by their highly trained administrators.  There is no doubt our students will benefit from these changes,” concludes NEA-NM President Patterson.