Before you raise your voice in indignation, let me quickly declare that I am not against teacher evaluations. The point here is to keep things in perspective and understand why teacher evaluation is not the magic pill that many people believe it is.
Teacher evaluation is unlike the evaluations administered in any other profession. It is easy to evaluate managers, clerks, welders and plumbers; for a given period of time, one can set a target and compare it with actual output, and that will mostly tell us about the employee’s work performance.… [Read more]
