S.C. deputy filmed slamming teen girl out of desk, dragging her away

Serious question: shouldn't your local school system want to make that deal? Shouldn't they want you as a teacher, given your schooling and experience, at $100,000 per year?

Is there any way for them to make that deal though?

 

Sorry, unless you attack poverty and the disadvantages associated with it you are not going to improve student outcomes more than marginally because that is the real problem here, not teachers.

Try telling expensive private schools that smaller class sizes don't matter.

 

You always need to have YF show his work...

BridgeNew state teacher evaluation standards are no magic bullet

“Later” ended up taking more than four years. A group of education experts pulled together by Snyder to fill in the details of a teacher evaluation system, led by renowned University of Michigan School of Education Dean Deborah Loewenberg Ball, turned in its recommendations to the legislature in the summer of 2013.

A bipartisan teacher evaluation bill that earned the support of groups as diverse as teacher unions and charter school organizations almost made it into law in December 2014, but was stopped by Senate Education Chair Phil Pavlov, R-St. Clair. Pavlov felt the bill gave too much control to the state Department of Education, and not enough leeway to local school districts to decide for themselves how to rate teachers.

Pavlov introduced his own version in the spring of 2015 that loosened statewide standards. That bill was in turn criticized for straying too far from the rigorous standards recommended by Ball’s commission. Negotiations continued over the summer, and a compromise bill was approved by both houses of the legislature in October. Snyder is expected to sign the bill Thursday.

“This feels like progress, I’m exciting about that,” Ball, the U-M education dean, told Bridge in her first public comments on the approved legislation. “The fact that we could get such broad agreement across party lines (the Senate approved the final version 35-2) … is very gratifying.”

Michigan’s new teacher evaluation system is “sooo much better than where we were,” Ball said. “This is an area that states are all having trouble with. It’s a step forward in a state that could exercise some real leadership. There are some things there that aren’t fully what we wanted but there’s training and the idea of standardized (evaluation) tools, and there’s reduction in the (reliance on) student achievement growth (compared with the 2011 legislation, which mandated 50 percent reliance on state test scores).

“I’m happy we were able to achieve a bill that moves us forward to the challenges of implementation.”

So...

I'm reading there is an effective teacher rating system in Michigan that does not rely so heavily on student test performance.

I'll skip the podcast.

 

This is true of the lower socioeconomic kids, but the high ones aren't being challenged enough, either, in America. The Atlantic, I think, broke it out a few years ago, treating the 50 states as independent nations. Even Massachusetts lagged behind other countries.

 

Answer the question, Claire.

 

I said: "No, I was just a normal guy."

 

Show your work.

 

"who became the God that stands before you."

 

Except it isn't "we." It's administrators who don't know how to fucking hire.

But people like you are too busy blaming teachers to figure this out. What a pity.

To correct another of your erroneous claims: The colleges and universities themselves aren't shitty, per se, but they do graduate WAY too many people into the education field, at least in these parts. There are some decent people emerging from those schools, but again -- administrators are too stupid and too locked in the past to hire those people.

 

They can barely pay their bills as it is.

 

Hardly. I'm an acknowledged total nobody.

 

I thought about going the alternative licensure route, but no way I'd want to teach in school districts that have chronic staffing needs. Couldn't pay me enough to be babysitter instead of what you're hired to do.

As for added training, I'm guessing at least 90 percent of the people here can easily get an A in a graduate-level education course.