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Originally Posted by bizaro86
My wife is a teacher, she teaches high school math (IB and Math 31). Do you think the Principal/Vice Principals at her school (every one of whom has a phys ed degree and was a gym teacher) are likely able to judge whether she's teaching calculus correctly? I would bet a lot of money that none of them could PASS calculus.
Now, teacher's need to be evaluated in some way, and the terrible ones should be removed somehow. But getting admin to do it isn't necessarily the best way.
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Yeah, exactly. My wife teaches primary grades so it's probably easier to evaluate (and they do formal evaluations until they become permanent), but it's so subjective, they only see them teach once in a blue moon, and, like in your wife's case, they potentially can't evaluate since they don't know the subject matter. Not surprising that we have the system we do now, as there's no easy solution.