Our school district is having all teachers learn the Charlotte Danielson Framework for teaching this year. We will be using this starting next year as our basis for evaluating teachers.
I know I should be grateful to be in a place where I am not evaluated on my standardized test scores. I know from reviewing my scores each year that I would be a wildly successful teacher one year and mediocre the next.
What is really painful is the process of learning the new framework means watching videos of poor teaching techniques. I was complaining to my husband, and we were relating it to sports training. Professional athletes spend hours watching videos of people doing it right and practicing correctly. I would love to watch videos of lessons that inspire me to come up with my own creative lessons.
That's my idea of professional development.
Amen.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear that. I wish all teachers could be evaluated based on what is in our control.
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