Important (and somewhat scary) Teacher Evaluation Issues
Introduction: This post will attempt to clarify various issues that my readers have brought to my attention in the past few weeks. I hope this helps inform teachers about some of the pitfalls of the evaluation system as they prepare for another challenging school year.
This is a group of FAQs you will probably never see answered by the DOE!
This is a group of FAQs you will probably never see answered by the DOE!
Q: Does the DOE require that each principal find a certain percentage of teachers at each school “ineffective”?
A: No! The idea of quotas of “ineffective” teachers comes from a highly questionable rule utilized by our DOE for determining VAM scores. According to John White, the number of “ineffective” teachers on the VAM evaluation is determined by ranking all VAM scores statewide and designating the bottom 10% as ineffective. This ineffective rating is not done by school or student type. So theoretically a particular school may have no “ineffective” teachers or a large number of “ineffective” teachers as determined by the statewide VAM ranking. In addition, it is quite possible for
