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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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I think teachers should be evaluated on how much improvement their students show. One of the benefits of all the no child left behind data was you could actually find teachers who out performed others after accounting for economic affects.
I'll have to see if I can find the study that was looking at it. But the just if it was year over year teachers who are good have students increase at more than a grade level across all skill levels of students.