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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1023927" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>There's nothing wrong with holding bad teachers accountable - but you can't do that with standardized testing. I think this is a generational difference.. I grew up with this stuff (I'm 25) and it's ridiculous. You're probably a bit older (no offense) and were actually able to have a teacher TEACH you. Teachers are now forced to "teach the test" or suffer the consequences - when I did teacher observations back when I was thinking about being a high school US history teacher, I watched a teacher have his kids copy notes off the overhead. When I asked him about it, he admitted that he tried to do some innovative stuff when he was first hired (I was 19 at the time, this guy was in his mid-20's) but his test scores were crappy and his job was threatened. Standardized testing results also have a lot to do with the home environment.. and the people of Chicago are on pretty hard times right now, economically. Teachers in poorer school districts have kids that do worse on standardized testing - that's simply fact. Why should they lose their jobs solely based on test scores? Test scores are an "easy" way to judge a teacher's merit - same thing as judging a UPS driver's numbers. A runner/gunner looks great on paper until he flies through a stop sign and t-bones a kid on a bike.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1023927, member: 42270"] There's nothing wrong with holding bad teachers accountable - but you can't do that with standardized testing. I think this is a generational difference.. I grew up with this stuff (I'm 25) and it's ridiculous. You're probably a bit older (no offense) and were actually able to have a teacher TEACH you. Teachers are now forced to "teach the test" or suffer the consequences - when I did teacher observations back when I was thinking about being a high school US history teacher, I watched a teacher have his kids copy notes off the overhead. When I asked him about it, he admitted that he tried to do some innovative stuff when he was first hired (I was 19 at the time, this guy was in his mid-20's) but his test scores were crappy and his job was threatened. Standardized testing results also have a lot to do with the home environment.. and the people of Chicago are on pretty hard times right now, economically. Teachers in poorer school districts have kids that do worse on standardized testing - that's simply fact. Why should they lose their jobs solely based on test scores? Test scores are an "easy" way to judge a teacher's merit - same thing as judging a UPS driver's numbers. A runner/gunner looks great on paper until he flies through a stop sign and t-bones a kid on a bike. [/QUOTE]
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