Heres a good one and my opinion. Alright, it sounded good until one reads that this would entail in part student surveys and evaluations... where are the parents? Always a trigger pull away from getting something right like returning control to the folks who are actually footing the bill. Pennsylvania’s evaluation system, which will be fully in place next year, includes a variety of measures for teacher performance, which NCTQ considers a plus. Those measures include student growth data, measured in various ways, and classroom observations. Classroom observations are “much more structured,” which helps mitigate the effects of principals’ like or dislike of the teacher being observed, said Jim Buckheit, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators. Good teacher evaluations include data on student growth, classroom observations and student surveys, Waymack said. Ideally, multiple people would observe the classroom, and student surveys would be grade-level appropriate and ask questions that reveal the teacher’s performance and not whether the student likes the teacher. Someone has to be kidding... it will become a personality contest in some ways and those teachers unions are going to tie it all up in the courts. Oh yeah, and what about the political inclinations of those overpaid administrators. The public school system is a very big, complicated mess... good luck Pennsylvania, you are going to need it and a lot more funding to fight the well heeled lawyers.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:03:04 +0000
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