by Bernard Olson | Aug 9, 2020 | General
Teachers in Michigan are now feeling the effect of the test scores of their students on their performance evaluations.
Sue Rutherford in a statement said that the tests act as a snapshot of the who the teachers are and what they are teaching their students.
The snapshot is now used to measure not only the learning curve of each student but also of their teachers.
However, Rutherford is not happy that test scores are used to evaluate teacher’s performances. As the director of the MI Education Association, she believed that test scores are not enough to reflect a teacher’s teaching skills or capability.
She added that a teacher’s performance must be evaluated based on different factors but not heavily reliant on scores during exams.
From the previous year, student’s exam results are comprising the 25% of a teacher’s evaluation score and this year, it is moved up to 50%.
Rutherford added that as she talks to teachers, they told her that this new evaluation scheme is causing them to lose their momentum as teachers and what they should be teaching. It seems like teachers are forced to focus on giving tests that will get their students a high score to get a better evaluation result.
Apparently, the results of these performance evaluations are used when there is a need to reduce the number of teachers in the district. You can check www.wnem.com for more.
by Bernard Olson | Dec 9, 2014 | General
The current legislature session is dubbed as lame duck and so far, it is best known for giving lawmakers a way to improve their political stand as the election is about to happen soon….
by Bernard Olson | Dec 5, 2014 | General
The Republicans and the Democrats are working on their own plans and on their own principles about the new teacher performance evaluation bills. It is two years on the work now.
The current session, dubbed as lame duck is currently on-going as part of the last agendas of this year’s session….
by Bernard Olson | Dec 3, 2014 | General
With a few weeks left before the end of the year session ends, the Michigan is racing against the clock to pass its new bills. Among the issues that lawmakers are trying to find answers are budget as well as bills on improving the quality of education.
A number of bills…
by Bernard Olson | Jul 14, 2014 | General
It was a wrong idea to think that teachers don’t want to get evaluated nor their performances be checked. Teachers say it is false. Educators are in fact pushing towards an evaluation process to be conducted by qualified individuals…
by Bernard Olson | Jul 13, 2014 | General
A new bill was accepted by the MI house that puts the supposed to be teachers’ evaluation on hold. One reason why it was put on hold is because they are working on a way to use the student test scores to make 50% of the educators’ scores.
The bill which was Bill 817 got approved…
