The Education Committee is considering a bill that has the potential to take a step in the right direction: senate bill 1160. Last week, the committee heard testimony on this bill, all of which can be found here:
Public Testimony
The bill would empower the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) to create a model teacher evaluation system.That sounds like a good thing, except that the legislation almost ensures that the system that is eventually created will not be fair, nor will it be created by people with student's best interests in mind.
The people assigned to the PEAC are all school board, administrator, or union reps. Nobody on the Council is there to represent parents or students. And these days, I find if hard to believe that union reps actually represent teacher views anymore. I could be wrong on that.
In addition, the law requires the PEAC to look at everything except how well the teacher does in actually teaching students.
oh boy
ReplyDeletenot good at all
one of these days I'll transcribe the notes I took from a school board association meeting on how efforts to create teacher evaluation systems are going here
the words that come to mind are "disaster," "quagmire," "tsunami" ----
ummmm... isn't that what they decided to do last year in their (failed) bid to race to the top "develop" a teacher evaluation? A year later there is still no evaluation.
ReplyDeleteYes, Dave, you are right. CT has a history of setting lofty goals and then failing to follow through.
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