Exiting Ineffective Teachers Policy
West Virginia requires that all teachers who receive unsatisfactory evaluations be placed on improvement plans. However, the state does not address whether a certain number of unsatisfactory evaluations would make teachers automatically eligible for dismissal.
Make eligibility for dismissal a consequence of unsatisfactory evaluations.
Teachers who receive two consecutive unsatisfactory evaluations or have two unsatisfactory evaluations within five years should be formally eligible for dismissal, regardless of whether they have tenure. West Virginia should adopt a policy that ensures that teachers who receive such unsatisfactory evaluations are eligible for dismissal.
West Virginia recognized the factual accuracy of this analysis.
To review the process and types of personnel evaluations observed in other job sectors, including the problems inherent to some evaluation systems see, for example, Gliddon, David (October 2004). Effective Performance Management Systems, Current Criticisms and New Ideas for Employee Evaluation in Performance Improvement 43(9), 27-36.