In the next several posts, we will look
at false teachers, how to recognize them, and what we are to do about them.
Not exact matches
This last passage we looked
at above (2 Peter 2:1) clearly indicates that there are
false teachers and
false prophets.
Osteen is
at best extremely naive and
at worse a
false teacher and heretic.
I've always been concerned about people who throw the
False Teacher around
at others while never considering it may apply to them sometimes as well.
Clive Ireson, director of strategy
at the Association of Christian
Teachers agrees with the findings, speaking on Premier's News Hour, he said: «Children know if they've done something good or not in their work and if people say «oh that's very good», and it isn't, then it's just
false.
4:6), and
false teachers, as Peter noticed (2 Peter 3: i6), were quite prepared for and adept
at twisting the Scriptures to serve their own ends, and no one is immune from doing the same thing.
When Peter writes in 2 Peter 2:5 that the flood was brought upon the people
at the time of Noah, Peter uses the exact same word he uses in 2:1 to write about how the
false teachers brought destruction upon themselves (Gk., epagō, «to bring upon»).
Yet the Apostle Paul, though reasoning calmly with the philosophers
at Athens and with the ruling authorities on trial, issued thundering anathemas against the
false teachers who came to the Galatian church as spokesmen for Christian orthodoxy.
I remember a curate
at my church saying that «there is a difference between a
teacher teaching falsely, and a
false teacher».
The threats, made
at North Dakota State in Fargo and the University of Texas in Austin, have proven to be
false alarms, but nevertheless forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of students,
teachers and personnel.
False fire alarms can be a real problem for some schools — interrupting carefully planned lessons, forcing
teachers to give up their precious PPA time should they be out of class
at the time of the alarm, and even causing major disruption to exams.
However, our concerns continue about the failure of those in authority to distinguish
false and malicious allegations
at an early stage in the process and before the careers and family lives of accused
teachers are destroyed.
Teachers claim that cameras in the classroom can help stamp out students»
false allegations against them, providing an added level of protection for both their careers and personal integrity while
at the same time affording parents full confidence in terms of how their children are being treated while
at school.
She describes the history of merit pay
at some length, showing how its assumption that
teachers would teach better if only they were motivated by money has again and again proved
false.
While this is somewhat controversial, many
teachers claim that CCTV cameras in the classroom can help stamp out students»
false allegations against them, providing an added level of protection for both their careers and personal integrity, while giving parents full confidence about how their children are being treated whilst
at school.
These all confirmed that our methods are highly effective
at isolating cases of potential cheating and avoiding
false positives (innocent
teachers accused of cheating).
At a more basic level, research can not address whether
teacher evaluation policies involving classification result in the «right» tradeoff between
false positives and
false negatives.
Figures 1a and 1b focus on misclassification
at the bottom of the
teacher performance distribution, but the
false positive /
false negative tradeoff arises with any classification system.
One of them is Karen Lewis, the president of the American Federation of
Teachers, who, in a correspondence with Ravitch published yesterday on the latter's site, accused David Rosenberg, a vice president
at Teach For America who criticized Ravitch publicly and demanded her to take down her nastiness, of «
false outrage».
The Idea of across the board raises is fantastic but even then the way that
teachers at the top of the pay scale have done without and listened to all of the
false promises in the past.
«Not true
at all»: Blackburn said the rumors were
false, pointing to his next job as CEO
at national California - based education nonprofit New
Teacher Center, which he said contacted him for the position in December during a national search.
While wooing
teachers with
false promises of a change in policy here
at home, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and his administration continue to trumpet their Corporate Education Reform Industry Agenda far from the gaze of Connecticut voters.
Add Los Angeles» notorious Superintendent John Deasy (with the fake PhD) to the list of Broad graduates to receive votes of no confidence from his
teachers,
at least those he hasn't forced out using
false and / or spurious allegations and had targeted by administrators who often act out of fear of losing their jobs.
Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in
at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high
false positive and
false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent,
teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).