How do we evaluate teachers? Do we assume that by virtue of the fact that they were once certified that they are always excellent? Your fundamental argument seems to be that you can't evaluate the effectiveness of educators until the "fullness of time" has passed. Does this mean that I have to wait till my kid's 18 to get a disastrous 1st grade teacher (who may have irreparably damaged the child) fired for incompetence?
How would I go about it?
Seriously - I'm all ears. In my job, I have goals that I need to accomplish. Goals are:
Understandable
Measurable
Time-boxed
I need to accomplish X by August 15th. It will be judged successful if the following criteria are met.
If I miss enough of these, guess what? I'm probably gonna lose my job. That's what I understand. Now, allowing for the fact that teachers are "different" - how can something similar be put in place? I really, really, really want to know? Cause if you can't measure it, you can't put a price on it.
Really - I'd love to hear the thoughts. I don't want some system that's highly subjective, cause that'll raise the usual "teachers are victims of capricious acts of administrators" or "nepotism, nepotism, nepotism". So, leaving that it has to be somewhat objective - how do we do it?
I'm for anything that provides accountability. But, it has to be measurable and timely - that is, you can't say it's measurable over 18 years - that's utter tripe. Help me out guys. Gimme a good answer and I'll carry the water for you.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
So, I'm not as smart as you Stan...
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