Common core just isn't the answer for our school structure. Students having to take the long ya to do things is senseless. We need to get back to basics. Teachers should absolutely NOT be evaluated by testing. After all the common core test want the children to fail. We need our teachers!
Eric - 10 years ago
The current APPR system is destructive to the art of teaching. Any good teacher knows that the best kid of teaching is authentic teaching while the worst kind of teaching is teaching to the test. This APPR system encourages teaching to the test. It encourages bad teaching.
Cindy - 10 years ago
APPR is patently unfair to both students and teachers. The system needs to at least be fair!
Elise - 10 years ago
State test results have been manipulated every year by the DOE, even before the Common Core (which itself isn't all bad). Get principals into classrooms on a regular basis, not just on certain evaluation days, to see how hard teachers are trying to do what's best for their students.
Allyson - 10 years ago
The Common Core and it's flawed tests are an unfair assessment of both kids and, in turn, their teachers! Let's put a fair system in place that isn't rigged to fail kids, teachers and schools for corporate profits!
Carol - 10 years ago
The evaluation system is so flawed. Less than 40% of my students passed any exams. Because I'm a good predictor, they all showed growth...failed but showed growth. I'm highly effective!
Jennifer Fatone - 10 years ago
Pearson's flawed tests and the developmentally inappropriate Common Core are designed to label schools as "failing" in order to push the agenda of those who want to privatize and profitize public education. APPR does not "measure" good teaching.
Rachel - 10 years ago
Only a tiny fraction of a child's growth can be 'measured'. Children are not statistics, they are people who need to be educated as individuals by professionals who are best qualified to determine their needs and learning styles. APPY is a completely flawed and misleading measurement of both students and teachers.
Diane Bagdy - 10 years ago
If you really want to follow a top-down system start with evaluating the Administrators and principals of a school NOT the teachers. Years ago it was a Principal's evaluation of a teacher based on the educational growth through concrete teaching of his/her class that determined a teacher's effectiveness. NOT test scores that are jimmy-rigged to "get" the teachers using the children. Testing on what is taught and how much the children in that particular class has learned over an entire school year was not the only criteria utilized to evaluate a teacher by his/her Principal. That is the person who knows what teachers are effective or non-effective in the school. Not through manipulated, Agenda driven, error riddled tests where the material was never taught to be retained by a student because of it's age/content inappropriateness. The Common Core system is nothing but indoctrination and not education. It is punitive to teachers and abusive to the children. The entire system being used now is a farce and should be completely scrapped immediately.
Concerned mommy - 10 years ago
Teaching to the tests wasting precious years . Putting the teachers jobs on the backs of SMALL CHILDREN IS A CRIME! How would you feel if you were 7 and knew everyday of your life you were being tested????? Unfair is an understatement ! This all falls on the backs of our kids! Shame shame shame on the DOE
Information Sorceress - 10 years ago
Tying teacher evaluation to test scores is inherently wrong for both the children and the teachers. Do we judge dentists on the number of cavities the patients have?
Teresa Luongo - 10 years ago
Find another way to evaluate the teachers leave our children alone stop the abuse!!
Vanessa - 10 years ago
Until the developmentally inappropriate entity known as Common Core gets ousted, teachers cannot be fairly evaluated. The validity of these tests is unseen. How can you evaluate a teacher on a test designed to fail our children?
Common core just isn't the answer for our school structure. Students having to take the long ya to do things is senseless. We need to get back to basics. Teachers should absolutely NOT be evaluated by testing. After all the common core test want the children to fail. We need our teachers!
The current APPR system is destructive to the art of teaching. Any good teacher knows that the best kid of teaching is authentic teaching while the worst kind of teaching is teaching to the test. This APPR system encourages teaching to the test. It encourages bad teaching.
APPR is patently unfair to both students and teachers. The system needs to at least be fair!
State test results have been manipulated every year by the DOE, even before the Common Core (which itself isn't all bad). Get principals into classrooms on a regular basis, not just on certain evaluation days, to see how hard teachers are trying to do what's best for their students.
The Common Core and it's flawed tests are an unfair assessment of both kids and, in turn, their teachers! Let's put a fair system in place that isn't rigged to fail kids, teachers and schools for corporate profits!
The evaluation system is so flawed. Less than 40% of my students passed any exams. Because I'm a good predictor, they all showed growth...failed but showed growth. I'm highly effective!
Pearson's flawed tests and the developmentally inappropriate Common Core are designed to label schools as "failing" in order to push the agenda of those who want to privatize and profitize public education. APPR does not "measure" good teaching.
Only a tiny fraction of a child's growth can be 'measured'. Children are not statistics, they are people who need to be educated as individuals by professionals who are best qualified to determine their needs and learning styles. APPY is a completely flawed and misleading measurement of both students and teachers.
If you really want to follow a top-down system start with evaluating the Administrators and principals of a school NOT the teachers. Years ago it was a Principal's evaluation of a teacher based on the educational growth through concrete teaching of his/her class that determined a teacher's effectiveness. NOT test scores that are jimmy-rigged to "get" the teachers using the children. Testing on what is taught and how much the children in that particular class has learned over an entire school year was not the only criteria utilized to evaluate a teacher by his/her Principal. That is the person who knows what teachers are effective or non-effective in the school. Not through manipulated, Agenda driven, error riddled tests where the material was never taught to be retained by a student because of it's age/content inappropriateness. The Common Core system is nothing but indoctrination and not education. It is punitive to teachers and abusive to the children. The entire system being used now is a farce and should be completely scrapped immediately.
Teaching to the tests wasting precious years . Putting the teachers jobs on the backs of SMALL CHILDREN IS A CRIME! How would you feel if you were 7 and knew everyday of your life you were being tested????? Unfair is an understatement ! This all falls on the backs of our kids! Shame shame shame on the DOE
Tying teacher evaluation to test scores is inherently wrong for both the children and the teachers. Do we judge dentists on the number of cavities the patients have?
Find another way to evaluate the teachers leave our children alone stop the abuse!!
Until the developmentally inappropriate entity known as Common Core gets ousted, teachers cannot be fairly evaluated. The validity of these tests is unseen. How can you evaluate a teacher on a test designed to fail our children?