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: Debate Over Teacher Evaluation Spawns a New Bad Idea Teachers in Kansas May Soon Face Jail Time for Doing Their Job

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But Jodi Peterson, assistant executive director for legislative and public affairs for the National Science Teachers Association, thinks the change would be a bad idea.

«There's an idea that all our problems originate from outside; that something bad happens to you and therefore you become miserable, but that's not actually the case,» says Judith Shaw, an assistant teacher at the Dhamma Aloka Vipassana meditation centre.

It's about time someone took the whole «Bad Santa / Teacher» idea and pushed it into the hands of awards caliber artists who will bring something emotional to the table.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

It is not a bad idea to review the meanings and usage of these verbs to ensure students understand precisely what you, and their future teachers, are looking for.

If attaching stakes to individual teachers is a bad idea and leads to the testing tail wagging the school dog, it's hard to see what will change four years from now.

Akin to Obamacare, it's an idea that seems appealing at first blush (let's recognize our best teachers and fire our worst!)

But while most parents are able to distinguish a good teacher from a bad one, few have any idea what difference it makes in the lives of their children.

In 2007, Mass Insight showed that instruction - driven, curriculum - driven policies could not transform the schools with the greatest challenges, and that the mass dismissal of teachers was a bad idea.

Asked to elaborate, the consultant added, «[De Blasio] is someone who just subscribes to the traditional teachers union based belief that anything outside the old school public education, any innovation, any reform, is a bad idea.»

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It said, when it invited proposals from states, that you needed to have more charter schools, you needed to have merit pay — which is a terrible idea — you needed to judge teachers by test scores, which is even a worse idea.

Our Elon University / News & Observer / Charlotte Observer poll shows North Carolina teachers think that's a bad idea.

The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.

Dammeier said delaying work on the teacher compensation issue until the Legislature is scheduled to reconvene in January would be a bad idea — partly, he said, because lawmakers» short 60 - day session in 2016 doesn't allow much time to address such a complex issue.

When these were put in to practice by many colleagues then behaviour tended to get worse, and most teachers abandoned the ideas after a few weeks.

The idea is that if we define teacher effectiveness as the impact that teachers have on student test scores, then we can use statistics to try to then tell us which teachers are good and bad.

A decision by state lawmakers to let prospective teachers slide on a basic skills test is a bad idea.

Two thirds isn't a bad showing, of course, but the ideas with overwhelming support were focused on giving more power to the teachers and principals inside actual classrooms, with one caveat: That they be better trained.

Is the idea to let the public know how bad some teachers are (at least as their students» test scores seem to show) so maybe they will fight for teachers to be more easily fired?

To understand why this academic alchemy is a bad idea, it's helpful to recap on what teacher assessment involves.

The idea is that good teachers add value by helping students progress further than expected, and bad teachers subtract value by slowing their students down.

Everybody knows that evaluating teachers on the scores that their kids get is a really bad idea because too many variables are out of a teacher's control, but this example shows why even «value - added models [1]» don't work.

We; ve lost a couple of generations of kids to this, not because of bad, teachers but because the politicians and the court have no idea what to do.

And they are adding some of their own bad ideas to make things worse: linking teacher evaluation and pay to how well kids do on standardized tests.

«Unfortunately Romney's budget ideas would just make the issues in Chicago worse,» she said, arguing that a Romney administration would increase cuts and decrease supports for teachers all while placing a higher emphasis on testing.

For instance, Victor, a caring 19 - year - old Dad, is dumbfounded when Baby College teachers tell him the system of physical punishments he's devised to train his son is a bad idea.

Also one very, very bad idea: procedures to arm more teachers and school officers.

But using existing test results to evaluate teachers is a bad idea.

Sam Freedman, the head of research at Teach First, which places high - achieving graduates into schools with disadvantaged intakes, said that even among teachers, there is hostility to the notion that what they do can be analysed and replicated: «The idea of learning heuristics seems bad because you're not discovering your inner teacher.»

I can not in good conscience support Minnesota's teacher tenure system as it's currently constituted, but that doesn't make the * idea * of tenure unworkable or somehow a bad thing.

Now, more than four years later, the idea that firing bad teachers will make schools better is catching on.

«They have this idea that I'm the worst eighth - grade math teacher in the city.»

If we make a request under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act to inspect or copy the list, the district would arguably have to make it available... Interestingly, it's not just teachers unions that think this is a bad idea.

Taking the time to identify these things and then brainstorming ideas on how to keep the good going and reconfigure the bad will help make your classroom run smoother and will help you to be a more effective teacher.

I * know * there are «bad» teachers out there, but I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of attempting to identify them based on data and / or the observations of ONE person (regardless of how much time doing so).

Weber County's training teachers to use guns a bad idea (Ogden) Standard - Examiner op - ed by Larry Bennington of Eden

Now I know the idea is that even if most of these first year teachers are pretty bad, if 1 % of them go on to become major players in education reform then having 10,000 will lead to 100 leaders while having 5,000 will only lead to 50 leaders.

Students often have a good idea if they have a «good» or «bad» teacher, these variables are an attempt to take advantage of that fact.

Most North Carolina educators think it's a bad idea to let teachers carry guns in the classroom, and they say arming teachers would make schools less safe and harm the learning environment, according to a newly released poll.

The city cautioned that the scores had large margins of error, and many education leaders around the country believe that publishing teachers» names alongside their ratings is a bad idea.

If Dan Malloy was really serious about having a «stronger» reform law he would announce that he is dropping the idea of his «Commissioner's Network» and specifically outline what he doesn't actually like about the legislative language that now ensures that bad teachers can be removed.

Donnelly said that while the Broward Workshop didn't include the issue of arming some teachers in its recent «position» paper on school safety, his personal opinion is that arming teachers is «a bad idea.»

One Trump idea that could make things worse: Give guns to teachers with military or special training.