Tap teachers evaluation program

TAP allows teachers to pursue a variety of positions throughout their careers—career, mentor and master teacher—depending upon their interests, abilities and accomplishments. As teachers move up the ranks, their qualifications, roles and responsibilities increase—and so does their compensation. This allows good teachers to advance professionally without having to leave the classroom and develops expert teacher leaders within schools to provide support to colleagues.

Unlike traditional models of professional development, TAP provides teachers with a system of professional learning that is ongoing, job-embedded, collaborative, student-centered and led by expert instructors. TAP restructures the school schedule to provide time during the regular school day for teachers to meet, learn, plan, mentor and share with peers, led by a master teacher who is an expert in the content area.

Weekly sessions are focused on the individual needs of teachers and students, determined by data and student work. Teachers collaborate on strategies for how to most effectively utilize the curriculum and teach in a way that helps students acquire the depth of knowledge asked for by state academic standards. We did not start from scratch.

We built TAP using the Google products you already know and love Integrated Google Login means no remembering passwords. Sign in to you gmail and that's it.

All files are stored in Google Drive for virus-safe, unlimted, secure, backed-up storage. Easily enter scores during an assessment, add comments for clarification, save to continue the assessment later if need be.

Quickly and easily attach documents, photos, videos, and other files to Teacher Assessments using Google Drive. Funded by the Joyce Foundation , the study randomly assigned schools that had volunteered and been selected to adopt Chicago TAP to either a treatment group that implemented the program right away or a control group that delayed implementation.

The study also relied on a matched comparison group selected from the more than CPS elementary schools that were not implementing Chicago TAP. The data included teacher surveys, principal interviews, and student test score, teacher personnel, and program participant data provided by the district.

The final impact report found that the program did not raise student math or reading scores, but it increased teacher retention in some schools. Mathematica's final report on the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program Chicago TAP found that the program did not raise student math or reading scores, but it increased teacher retention in some schools.

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