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

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- 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!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"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!</div>
  
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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?
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- 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?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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?</div>
  
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- 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".
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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". </div>
  
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- jeffduckett on 14 Nov 12
  
  Quality Teaching = Quality Learning
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Quality Teaching = Quality Learning</div>
  
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Test scores can reveal when kids are not learning; they can’t reveal why.
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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.)
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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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Fair Isn't Equal: Seven Classroom Tips | Edutopia - 1 views

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If you ask students what are the most important qualities they like in teachers, one of the universally top-mentioned is fairness. Teachers and schools strive to be fair and build programs and polices based on this value.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 29 | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-88551" title="agad-logo (1)" src="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/agad-logo-1.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="99" /> Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.
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