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Since 1999, Evaluation Tests and Teacher Evaluations, State Assembly Representative Brett Davis, R-Oregon, wants to tie teacher pay and performance to how good or bad their students do on a test given every fall. Basically, if students do well, the teacher gets to keep their job and may get a merit pay boost if the students do really well. If students do not do well, then the teacher may be placed on probation or fired.
I do not know if Davis genuinely believes that this is actually a good idea or if he is supporting it just to get the federal money that would come with it.
Student evaluations should be based one-third on class discussion and participation, one-third on written papers and one-third on exams of the subject, and not 100 percent or a high percent on some evaluation test. Basing student evaluations 100 percent or a high percentage on a specialized evaluation test is absolutely ridiculous. Basing teacher evaluations on it is even worse. Teachers have little to no control over students' lives outside of school that can very much affect their performance on a test. They have little to no control over parental responsibilities for discipline and being involved in their child's education.
Some equate this to job evaluations for other careers, but there is little to no comparison. In other career fields, evaluations are based on or more equivalent to my one-third evaluations of students and not 100 percent or high percentage on a test taken by other people.
Some say the real problem is teacher unions and that teacher unions must be done away with. This just indicates that they are right-wing conservative Republican nuts. Everyone has the right to organize whether these right-wing conservative Republican nuts like it or not.
Schools must get back to teaching real subjects rather than teaching so that students do well on some evaluation exam. Politicians need to stop finding new ways to drive teachers out of the profession and prevent potential teachers from going into the profession.
Since 1999, Evaluation Tests and Teacher Evaluations, State Assembly Representative Brett Davis, R-Oregon, wants to tie teacher pay and performance to how good or bad their students do on a test given every fall. Basically, if students do well, the teacher gets to keep their job and may get a merit pay boost if the students do really well. If students do not do well, then the teacher may be placed on probation or fired.
I do not know if Davis genuinely believes that this is actually a good idea or if he is supporting it just to get the federal money that would come with it.
Student evaluations should be based one-third on class discussion and participation, one-third on written papers and one-third on exams of the subject, and not 100 percent or a high percent on some evaluation test. Basing student evaluations 100 percent or a high percentage on a specialized evaluation test is absolutely ridiculous. Basing teacher evaluations on it is even worse. Teachers have little to no control over students' lives outside of school that can very much affect their performance on a test. They have little to no control over parental responsibilities for discipline and being involved in their child's education.
Some equate this to job evaluations for other careers, but there is little to no comparison. In other career fields, evaluations are based on or more equivalent to my one-third evaluations of students and not 100 percent or high percentage on a test taken by other people.
Some say the real problem is teacher unions and that teacher unions must be done away with. This just indicates that they are right-wing conservative Republican nuts. Everyone has the right to organize whether these right-wing conservative Republican nuts like it or not.
Schools must get back to teaching real subjects rather than teaching so that students do well on some evaluation exam. Politicians need to stop finding new ways to drive teachers out of the profession and prevent potential teachers from going into the profession.
