Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

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Using Competency-based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore

E-newsletter: 
June 2010

Public Impact recently released a paper describing the use of performance-linked "competencies" to measure, reward, and develop teacher performance. The paper presents a brief background on the state of teacher evaluation in the United States, the case for what can be learned from Singapore, and key facts about Singapore's competency-based teacher evaluation system.