tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post6737277125052510499..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Houston: Court Throws Out VAMPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-40657395752461139202017-05-05T15:08:33.252-04:002017-05-05T15:08:33.252-04:00@NY Teacher:
Social Distraction-ha, ha.
Maybe 20...@NY Teacher:<br /><br />Social Distraction-ha, ha.<br /><br />Maybe 20 or more years ago I was doing substituting work prior to getting my K-8 Certification in the state I’d moved into. I was doing an English Lit. class on the high school level. After I passed out the assignment paper, and read the teacher’s instructions, a young woman sitting in the back of the class put her hand up with a question. I thought it might not be something that was confusing to the rest of the class, so I asked her to come up so I could go over the part of the instructions to answer her question.<br /><br />She was seated in a row with four boys in front of her. As she passed up the row, she let her hand glide up the back of the neck of each boy and ruffle his hair. I should explain that she was simply gorgeous from top to bottom but especially in the important middle area. I was surprised and had nothing to say. I was able to give her an explanation of the point she was raising and she went back and began working on her paper. I always felt bad that those four boys probably were never going to understand some important story-telling detail about characters, setting, plot, -whatever it was that the paper was about. <br /><br />NY Teacher is exactly right-these people have forgotten a lot about actual school.<br /> <br />LeilaLeilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02447044081130341196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-51233900886424667282017-05-05T12:51:36.909-04:002017-05-05T12:51:36.909-04:00No formula can control for inattention or apathy o...No formula can control for inattention or apathy or social distraction. The negative impacts of poor attendance get seriously undervalued by educrats. Here in NYS most districts now are using shared/ditributed HS Regents scores for the 50% of teacher evaluations that must be derived from testing. This has relieved much of the test prep pressure and has eliminated scores of "local" pre and post tests; and as you would expect it has expunged all credibility from our APPR evaluations.NY Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292448959963091160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-70917427533335658462017-05-05T11:41:21.650-04:002017-05-05T11:41:21.650-04:00But VAM/EVAAS/PVAAS all claim to control for stude...But VAM/EVAAS/PVAAS all claim to control for student/family factors and for years the powers that be have bought that argument.<br /><br />The argument that needed to be made - and which HFT successfully made, thank heavens - is that VAM/EVAAS/PVAAS *don't* actually control for those factors. The next step is to show that those factors can't, in fact, be controlled for. Right now we've cut off one head of the hydra. Now we have to slay the beast itself.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-69589412840807708172017-05-05T07:43:05.895-04:002017-05-05T07:43:05.895-04:00I continue to be amazed at how little play "s...I continue to be amazed at how little play "student accountability" or "parent accountability" gets.<br /><br />The know-nothing reformers have treated student learning as if good teaching alone can make it happen for everyone.NY Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292448959963091160noreply@blogger.com