Under the OPE system, teachers are made partly responsible for evaluating other teachers. Doesn this put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, resulting in “soft” evaluations of teaching performance?
To the contrary, communities such as Columbus, Ohio, and Rochester, N.Y. that use peer review, discovered that teachers are actually tougher on each other than administrators. Teachers can readily assess their colleagues’ command of subject matter and their capacity to teach rigorous content and help all students achieve high standards, and they place greater trust in evaluations done by their colleagues. Giving teachers the responsibility for measuring the performance of their peers also helps build teacher leadership and promotes greater professionalism in how they interact with each other.
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