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Originally Posted by zimmy
Any idea what an accurate measure of teacher performance would be? Most teachers I know would be all in for raises based on performance, but it is very difficult to quantify performance. Standardized tests are not designed as a measure of teacher performance. It is kind of like measuring physicians based on the health of their patients. Some terrible physicians would look great and the best oncologists in the world could look terrible. The city schools can't keep teachers to begin with. A well meaning, but misguided system for judging performance won't help the kids or tax payers.
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Sure -
1. Standardized tests - dont use average scores, use the median (the extremes high and low will drop off) and test begginning of the year and end of year. - 50% of rating
2. Parent rating - after all, teachers are our customers, we should have a say - rating questionairre - 25%
3. Evaluation - teachers should be evaluated by their superiors - 25%
There you go, not so hard.
Not making this another texas thing - but I can give you some thoughts. We left a good town in MA where we had decent schools. I rarely heard from my kids teachers. Texas schools started 2 weeks ago- do you know i get DAILY emails for both my kids teachers detailing what is going on in the class, weekly summaries of the work and other random updates. Thats about 8-10 emails A WEEK from my kids teachsers. Thats awesome and thats what great teachers do.
I believe teachers hands are tied by political correctness. Kids should take a reading and english test at the beginning of the year, if they fail - they should go to an 8 hr a day special class where ALL they do is learn to read and learn English. Why bother teaching anything else if they cant read or understand english? No one has the balls to implement something like this.