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Today's Poll!Pilot program makes teacher evaluations more ‘developmental than judgmental’
Kathleen Corbin, Blair Oaks Middle School math teacher, works with her students Thursday. She and other teachers are participants in an evaluation pilot program through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Photo by Julie Smith.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has embarked on a significant new pilot project designed to improve the state’s system for evaluating educators, in hopes it will lead to improved student test scores and an enhanced educational experience for Missouri’s children.
Paul Katnik, who serves as interim assistant commissioner for the Office of Educator Quality, said hundreds of people have helped develop the pilot program. “But the most important aspect is that the people involved in the work are a part of this,” he said.
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JCLifer 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Isn't teacher performance evaluation the job of the local district that employs the teacher? Why do we need Big Brother to waste our tax dollars doing this stuff?
Paroquet 3 months, 2 weeks ago
DESE has been around for a long time. What it does is set the bar for minimum qualifications, performance and conduct standards. It ensures a uniform level of challenges and achievement expectations for students and educators alike. Unfortunately, among a demographic where students cannot be motivated despite an educator's best efforts that conform to the requirements, people often confuse failing parents and students with teacher ability.
GrumpyGus 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Right, because it could never be the fault of a poor teacher or a poor curriculum that has gotten away from the basics. It's more important to teach kids how bad humans are in global warming/climate change 101, and social justice 201, and the government will take care of you 206. If I was a kid, I would tell my school to pound sand too, because I will leave a modern highschool dumber than when I started.
connor 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't forget. it's all the White man's fault General Education Requirement followed by Patriarchy kept us women down elective 100, taught by the round table of Feminist teachers daily.
asb 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Even state standards don't always hold up to a reasonable smell test. Creationism, non-science, bigotry and mysongeny are pushed by religious fundamentalists and other backward thinking dolts all over the US. At least Missouri still requires science, math, language skills, tech skills, and history along with all that useless humanity stuff.
John 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Do you have a college degree? If you do I question the quality of your degree. It seems you managed to forget that history and at least, some, of the language skills are humanities programs -- that of which you demean in your statement.
asb 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I have a humanities and a science degree, I'm making fun of other posters in this thread. I guess my writing skills would suggest I say "other" useless humanities stuff. But, you could've still miss the sarcasm, again my fault. I apologize.
John 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Aaah. Thank you for clarifying.
spelchek 3 months, 2 weeks ago
" bigotry and mysongeny are pushed by religious fundamentalists "
“Then he held up the Etch-A-Sketch and Sarah Palin said, ‘Hey, give me back my iPad.’ She’s stupid.
She’s stupid. I know I’m not allowed to say it, but I think she’s stupid.” - Bill Maher
“I think Sarah Palin proved herself to be—I think she‘s proven herself to be profoundly stupid.” - Chris Matthews
I had no idea Bill and Chris were religious fundamentalists. Thanks for sharing.
Sequoia 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I don't think anyone was criticizing Sarah Palin for being a woman. They were criticizing her because she was seeking very high office and didn't seem to be cut out for it.
There is a huge difference between blanket perjoratives about large groups of people and pointed criticism of an individual public figure.
Just because a person is a woman and subject to criticism does not mean mysogeny is at work. All public figures that weild power MUST be subject to criticism, regardless of their race, age or gender.
spelchek 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Right.........feminism includes all women regardless of political affiliation. What was I thinking? The quotes I used didn't show any disrespect towards women thus leaving them vacant of any misogyny. You can't be serious. "Just because a person is a woman and subject to criticism does not mean mysogeny is at work." Sandra Fluke and MSM would disagree with you.
Frankenstein27 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Normally I'm all for local control, but if the regular commenters on News Tribune are local, then I'm all for some standards from DESE.
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