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Why Kids Should Grade Teachers - Amanda Ripley - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    • kicsprincipal
      kicsprincipal on 14 Nov 12
       
      "If someone had asked" - yes! Let's ask students! But not just about how their teacher is working with them, other things also. But let's give them the tools to be asked and to respond. It's time to open the BYOD debate!
  • The point was so obvious, it was almost embarrassing. Kids stared at their teachers for hundreds of hours a year, which might explain their expertise. Their survey answers, it turned out, were more reliable than any other known measure of teacher performance—­including classroom observations and student test-score growth. All of which raised an uncomfortable new question: Should teachers be paid, trained, or dismissed based in part on what children say about them?
    • kicsprincipal
      kicsprincipal on 14 Nov 12
       
      It's a tough one: asking and considering their responses does not mean acting dramatically on the feedback. But isnt knowledge supposed to be power? Don't teachers WANT to know?
    • jeffduckett
      jeffduckett on 14 Nov 12
       
      Why shouldn't we value the perspective and perceptions of students. What is described here is just another form of assessment. The content of which would need to be considered carefully as to focus on effectiveness of learning to establish trends, and not "teacher evaluation". 
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    • jeffduckett
      jeffduckett on 14 Nov 12
       
      Quality Teaching = Quality Learning
  • Test scores can reveal when kids are not learning; they can’t reveal why.
  • In math, for example, the teachers rated most highly by students delivered the equivalent of about six more months of learning than teachers with the lowest ratings. (By comparison, teachers who get a master’s degree—one of the few ways to earn a pay raise in most schools —delivered about one more month of learning per year than teachers without one.)
  • Why Kids Should Grade Teachers A decade ago, an economist at Harvard, Ronald Ferguson, wondered what would happen if teachers were evaluated by the people who see them every day—their students. The idea—as simple as it sounds, and as familiar as it is on college campuses—was revolutionary. And the results seemed to be, too: remarkable consistency from grade to grade, and across racial divides. Even among kindergarten students. A growing number of school systems are administering the surveys—and might be able to overcome teacher resistance in order to link results to salaries and promotions.
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Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift - 1 views

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  • Why Kids Need Schools to Change
  • “There’s probably no better example of the throttling of creativity than the difference between what we observe in a kindergarten classroom and what we observe in a high school classroom,”
  • “For developing creativity and flexible and divergent thinking, we need to bring back the arts,”
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