Was wondering what everyone's thoughts on this were. Have to jet soon so couldn't find the best article but this gives a quick rundown of what is involved:
https://online.wsj.com/article/AP8fb99105479c4174b56b797e9300f89e.htmlBasically teachers are getting rated 1 to 100 based on how well their students did on tests. I have two major problems with this. First off, basing
anything on a graded system like a standardized test that someone else took is probably the least accurate system. You could be the greatest teacher in the world but have a classroom full of students who just do not give a shit regardless of how you try to handle them or on the flipside have a teacher with no real classroom skills with a class full of kids who are bookworms. Not to mention that the system is
already full of errors. My mom's a teacher and just from the way her kids are she has said a number of times how less and less kids even pay attention in class so to have someone's career ride on their backs seems a little alarming.
Another point I don't like is how the results are being made public because, well, the public and statistics don't mesh very well in my opinion. One of the heads of this study has said that she didn't wish for anyone to think that a low number (40-50s and lower) to mean that the teacher is terrible but I can't help but think of the types of parents that exist today and how they're see that one number and just assume that someone is actually a bad teacher based on this wildly inaccurate system.
I do agree that some kind of system for grading teachers needs to be in place but this is definitely not a good one, especially basing off something as moronic as standardized tests. They're trying to push that a bad system is better than no system at all but when there are legitimate jobs on the line, is it really?