Teacher Evaluations May Get a Video Assist - NYTimes.com
Teacher Evaluations May Get a Video Assist - NYTimes.com:
My usual antipathy to all thing Microhard, make my reactions to this suspect, however, this sentence to me describes one of the core problems with MS in general.
"Researchers and educators involved in the project described it as maddeningly complex in its effort to separate the attributes of good teaching from the idiosyncrasies of individual teachers.This statement, if true, would seem in its essence to negate the beauty of creativity, inventiveness in "good" teaching. How does one "separate" the two. And...they do not mention kids' evaluations which would seem to be key. How does the "complexity" deal with the following. How would they adequately evaluate something my first grade teacher did...i.e., haul us up on her lap routinely to explain something. Would that be a negative or positive in this much more "modern" evaluated world?
Mr. Gates is tracking the research closely. The use of digital video in particular has caught his attention. In an interview, he cited its potential for evaluating teachers and for helping them learn from talented colleagues.Video can be a great help, she/me says from her own singular experience. In the only "education" course I took of value, we were video-taped giving a short presentation of something akin to our majors. I chose music appreciation. I somewhat dreaded it, and certainly thought I had given a pretty dull performance, when to my utter surprise, I found myself quite animated and interesting! My fellow videotapees were positive in their comments. So the good for me was that my glum self-view of my personality got a boost into the happier positive realm.
Obviously that could go the other way, but at least one would have one's OWN idea of whether or not others' evaluation had merit or not re that particular "performance."
Yeah, yeah, time will tell. Here's hoping it really is helpful for producing more great teachers.
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