Talk:Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 7/7.5.1

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I am a teacher's assistant and I have been evaluated from this position, but I think the principal also has evaluated me on the premise that I have gone into teacher's classrooms and taught a lesson and they also base my evaluation on that. I know that there is a form that the principals go by when evaluating a teacher and there are certain criteria that the teacher must meet. I know there is alot of pressure for teachers to do their job to the best of their ability, because if not then their evaluation will reflect it.Msmhobbs04 (talk) 21:50, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

This article poses a few questions I never thought of. For example, how are teachers being fairly evaluated when they each have different styles of teaching? Can you base their performance soley on the performance of their students? Jnemo001 (talk) 04:32, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

I really enjoyed reading this article, because it did address a very important issue that pre-service teachers might not consider. Who really does decide if a person is an effective and caring teacher, and how do they go about it? There are some many variables involved, such teaching philosophies, assessment philosophies, what should and should not be taught, teaching strategies and methods, and how much care and concern goes into children. And these are just views that a teacher will have to address during an interview; there are also the views of the principal, administrators and school board. In a way, this could be another failure of NCLB that was doomed to happen. One of the foundations of NCLB was better accountability among teachers and this included having teacher who was highly qualified. If a principal’s standards were not that high to begin with, it was highly possible to hire low-quality teachers. Even if a principal had high standards for teachers, then their evaluation process could have been flawed. Perhaps another structure that the reformed NCLB should have is an evaluation process for hiring teachers. Of course, this would be extremely difficult, because like students, each teacher is different. Adart001 (talk) 17:51, 25 July 2009 (UTC)