I disagree that teacher evaluations should be shared only with parents (presumably parents of their own students).
What about parents of children not yet in the school? What about non-parents, but especially administrators of other schools/districts which may consider hiring a teacher from another school or district? What about other teachers in the same school or district who feel they have been mistreated in the evaluation process?
If parents get to see evaluations with teacher names, then why not allow parents to participate in the teacher evaluation process?
Parents will be allowed to divulge teacher evaluations, rendering this privacy notion void. Parents could conceivably make a compendium of all teacher evaluations in a school or entire district, and publish it. Heck, an enterprising parent-teacher organization could decide that the “official” APPR evaluations under Principal Joe Doakes over in Yoknapatawpha High School are all much too rosy, and all the APPR evaluations under Principal Ulysses in Yoknapatawpha at the middle school are all too severely critical and nit-picking.
Deciding then that the entire APPR evaluation process is bogus, the disillusioned PTO could undertake to do (and publish) their OWN teacher evaluations, completely outside of the purview of the school or district administration!
Actually, I believe teachers and their evaluations should be treated just as I am treated, and as is my annual work evaluation. Nobody other than me, my boss and the HR Department gets to see them. Making individual teacher evaluations available to anyone other than school district officials, in my opinion, is somewhere between draconian and foolhardy. I believe this newly adopted law will prove to be the undoing of any effectiveness anyone may have expected to have resulted from the APPR teacher evaluation process.
For the purposes of full disclosure, I am personally against the entire APPR teacher evaluation concept as being unnecessary and expensive as well as totally unproductive. Time will tell!
"The following provides guidance and clarification regarding session days, the school calendar and reporting of attendance data for State Aid purposes. Days of Session School districts must be in session for all students, including students with disabilities, for not less than 180 days. Included in the 180 days are days on which attendance is taken, days on which Regents examinations, State Assessments or local examinations are given and days on which superintendent's conference days are held. School year session days counting toward the 180 day requirement may not be scheduled on any day in July or August. Session days should not be scheduled after the June Regents examination period." Source: https://stateaid.nysed.gov/attendance/attendance_memo.htm Teacher contracts follow suit, usually with an extra day for a Superintendent's Conferemce for the puspose of staff development. But teaching, in the classroom with students present in a learning mode is 180 days across NY State.
What does Jericho have that Seaford and Wantagh do not......MONEY. 1. They do not vote down budgets. 2. Parents are able to afford $90 per hour tutors for math, science, SAT prep ($150 an hour). Money is what really separates the nonsense of top schools vs others. Kids at Jericho are encouraged to take AP classes even if the school knows they are not capable because the more AP classes taken (not passed, just taken) show that their school is better. More research Lorraine. You are wrong yet again.
If teacher evals need to be made then everyone should show their cards. Why does that code enforcement guy drive around all day with a coffee and cig? Hmmm I think Im checking the "Rarely performs his task" box. How about those wall streeters whose salaries are being paid by us? Why does that guy drive around in that suped up Mercedes? Hmmmm I think Im checking the "Poor use of finances" box. Why did that special pick up guy make a mess on my block and then when I call special pick up to complain, they say its not their responsibility? They shouln't get a positive evaluation either. Im all for teacher evals, hell release them to all four corners of the earth, but only if everyone else is treated the same way.
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What about the "bloggers" on Patch evaluations (or even credentials) to give them a blog?
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There are many teachers that go the extra mile and as do many others in any business. MY personal viewpoint is this. There needs to be a method to reward the ones who do exceed who are inspriing and effective and cull the ones who arent. I doubt anyone thinks APPR is going to be the saviour to education or the finacial crisis, however it IS a step in holding people accountable for performance. Is it perfect ? ofcourse not, far from it. But it IS a start and will hopefully evolve into something that will establish a standard that needs to met. For all my rantings as they have been called, I firmly believe the great teachers will benefit from this in the long run as it evolves, while teachers who for whatever reason arent successful will benefit from the "challenge" of becoming better with the additional guidance and supervision that will follow. I also beleive the UNION is a major road block in allowing us to remove ineffective teachers swiftly, it also is prohibiting us from REWARDING excellent teachers for their work. Again APPR is far from perfect, but it is a step in the right direction
Lets place sarcasm aside and discuss the facts
Advanced science and high level math teachers and special education teachers should have Masters degrees. But those teachers should NOT be on the same salary schedule, making the same money as librarians and general education (especially elementary level) teachers, based solely upon their relative seniority, as opposed to the degree of difficulty and relative importance of their subject matter. @ Bill Alderman, good response: you get it! Thanks.
if i understand correctly you feel a BA/BS in education is sufficient to qualify an individual to teach? That a Masters is a justification for more money? So in essence the LESS educated the teacher equates to a lower paid better EDUCATOR? Chris did you really just say that. After all this rigamaroll with everyone spouting teachers are the foundation of this country etc etc the minds of youth are at stake etc etc. you advocate "dumbing" down the qualifications to BE a teacher..I'm pushing for better prepared,highly educated,with stronger skill sets which i feel will impact in a positive way on the education of our students . Your advocating WHAT exactly? I am NOT a teacher but let me tell you, you think having a class of 28 6 yr olds is a walk in the park with their attention span, getting them to read, comprehend math all while recognizing individual learning issues etc.? Elementary school is the FOUNDATION of their education.. if the foundation is deficient then the whole house is compromised. So when they GET to science and math etc in the MS & HS dont ya THINK there would be a problem if their elem. teachers we less educated ,less prepared to deal with the myriad of issues that start to manifest on the elem. level. THATs why it is MORE important that ALL teachers are highly qualified & educated. We have to be MORE selective with HIGHER, TOUGHER standards not LOWER . Cull the wheat from the chaff !
She is an example to be followed ... and the special ed teachers THE REALLY GOOD special ed teachers deserve a congressional medal of honor.AND combat pay! for not only do they have to deal with each individual students specific needs they have to deal with the parents who can be equaly challenging...
Receiving tenure at a Long Island public school is like being hazed in a fraternity. It is a hard nosed, cut throat, one minor foul up and you're out process. Minor foul up meaning MINOR foul up. Once you do get tenure you have to demonstrate your dedication and loyalty or else you are burdened by new preps every year or are ostracized in other ways. Boondoggle!
My words speak for themselves. Degrees do not make good teachers. Good teachers are born, not made. Teaching is a talent, a gift, a skill set. Good teaching, effective teaching is that talent developed through practice and doing; it is a basic skill set perfected into a craft, not in a graduate program, but in the classroom; a craft, not a profession like either medicine or the law. Except for the teachers union, librarians in public schools would be civil service, like the librarians in our public libraries. I have great respect for librarians, both in our local and school libraries. That one group of librarians should be in the teachers union earningdouble what the other group earns in the public library speaks to part of the problem in our public schools, Looking at this in the context of APPR, how are they going to evaluate school librarians vis-a-vis standardized tests? if the Golden Books are all correctly put into the stacks at the elementary school library (IMC), does that librarian earn a high evaluation? How would an elementary school librarian EVER earn an unsatisfactory rating, and if one ever did, then why should it take two years to fire them?
the more you grow" . You obviously havent been to a HS library in a LONG time. Technology has liberated the Library! Libraries are no longer books on a shelf. they are learning centers - Hopefully within the near future the actual physical footprint of the library will be the heart of the HS campus. Students can have access to any book via technology whether it be ipad, ipod smart phone or computer. the possibilties are endless in fact most librarians are or are going to need to be more tech savey then most SD IT Managers/Directors as they are hands on and keep abreast of the lastest technology and applications that support and complement course work. Point click and voila! With more and more books being digitized, with the evolution of the library into a multi media center the possibilities for students are going to be global & endless.