There is no cost benefit in educating student in advanced mathematics when it has been proven by mathematics that these students will simply fail these
classes with an effective teacher.
Using value added analysis would allow for significant savings in the poverty schools with the early identification of the students that can not
learn with effective teachers.
Since schools can predict those students that perform
best with an effective teacher these students can be placed in classes with larger number of students.
To bridge the gap between research and practice, he includes checklists of skills and positive qualities associated
with effective teacher performance as well as red flags that indicate that teachers may not be reaching their full potential in the classroom.
Most importantly, then, test results provide parents and teachers with vital information about student learning, and accountability policies challenge districts and schools to meet individual student
needs with effective teachers, strong curricula, choices for families and students, and break - the - mold interventions for failing schools.
Americans still do not recognize that once there are only effective teachers the value added analysis will allow school administrators to predict all of the students that can not be
educated with effective teachers.
Not one supporter of value added analysis would accept stop trying to teach students that have
failed with an effective teacher while the logic indicates this follows from the idea of firing teachers based upon value added analysis.
«The only way to ensure that students are in
classrooms with effective teachers is for both sides to finally negotiate a meaningful multi-measure evaluation system that gives educators the support, feedback, and recognition they deserve and need.»
Given a
year with an effective teacher — one whose pupils previously showed test - score gains — students can advance their learning by a grade level or more, according to research done by William L. Sanders while he was at the University of Tennessee.
More recently, the Learning First Alliance (LFA), a national partnership of 12 leading education associations, published A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High - Poverty, Low - Performing
Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators, a 2005 report that identifies a set of key factors that must be addressed to narrow gaps in educator quality.
For example:
With an effective teacher the test scores on a mathematics course such as Algebra 1 would indicate those student who will fail in more advanced mathematics courses.
Supposedly if a student takes a test in the fifth grade
with an effective teacher the method is able to predict the score of the student in the sixth grade with an effective teacher.
Since we can totally before the school year predict the expected test scores of students based upon previous test score and effective teachers we can simply weed out all the students that would fail if they were assigned in a class
with an effective teacher.
Updated Part 2 presents positive qualities and red flags associated
with effective teachers, keyed to the domains of the Framework for Effective Teaching
If you are a teacher, compare your performance
with the effective teacher you identified.