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Holy sh*t!  Every senior teacher will be rated ineffective especially those teachers who have level 1 students and every untenured will be rated developing so as to scare the sh*t out of them where they will pass every student in their classroom.   Eventually the year that they’re supposed to receive tenure then they’ll be rated ineffective, where the granting of tenure will be unlikely.  What I see is another way of side-stepping the TDR but still using TDR in an inconspicuous, yet career-killing manner.  DoE wins and UFT needs to explain to the members why the rank-and-file are losing their jobs.

It’s going to get ugly come the 2011-2012 school year!

Dept. of Unintended Consequences: Principals are bound to choke on the new ob rubrics because it will be harder to protect their faves. In the good old days they could give out Satisfactorys  from a simple lesson plan or a 10-minute drop-in. Nevertheless, bad principals will find a way to game the reforms just as  they and teachers have already gamed NYSED’s new and ineffectual reforms of Regents scoring.

The  rubric  passed  by  the  Regents  in  May  establishes  the  minimum  for  “effective”  at  75,  not  65-70.  If  implemented,  the  majority  of  NYC  teachers  will  be  rated  “developing,  or  ineffective.”

Everyone knows what a joke this is.  It’s all a mess and it probably will always be.  Years and years have passed and same ol same ol.  Education reformers?  Really?  Gimmie a break!  What the hell is educational reform?  Maybe we should ask Michelle Rhee huh?  She has DISAPPEARED!  LMAO!  I love all the people who look in from the outside and want to change everything.  All these dumb _______es would never last in a classroom, especially my classroom of 34 students are probably 8 different levels with 12 of them not even knowing they should be in special ed.  I’d love to see these “educational reformers” stand in front of this class for 6 hours.  They would go home with their freakin’ head spinning!!!!  What a JOKE!  Oh and by the way, F Status on another comment I read is widespread.  All the F Status “individuals” getting this money were former principals and “hooked up” people.  This system is probably the most bizarre and messed up system or organization in the United States of America.  Bloomberg gets a big thumbs down for thinking he could turn this system into a “company styled runned” organization.  FAIL!!!  Even funnier is the entire Deputy Staff who left the system high and dry after they saw what was coming.  Breaking schools up into 9 mini schools with 9 principals in 1 bldg on different schedules and different rules is HYSTERICAL.  I love the CHAOS!  No one knows what the hell is going on.  This is better for me and I love it.  I think the D.O.E. should hire more consultants, more principals (from the academy), more F Status former principals, more network leaders, more network leader supervisors, more network leader district supervisors, and more network leader c.e.o.’s.  This would really benefit our kids.  Ah ha ha ahaa hhah aha ha hahhahhahahha ahhaha aha ha haahha hahahhaha hah ahahah ahha hahahah hah ah ahhahahahhahha ha hahhahh ahahah aha hah ahhahahhahhahahahahahahhahahhahahahahhahahahahaha ah ha  ha ahha  ah ah a ahahahahha ah a ah ah ahaahah ah ahha ahhaaaa!  This is a great web site.  I work with Tweed staff too.  You should do a story of how much they charge per year on their “lunch accounts” for business related topics.  Ahha ha aha hah aha h ah ah ah ahahahha ah ahahahahah hah ahaha.  You go education reformers!  Woo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Ms Darville
Rubric will not do any good to us if we do not have  videotaped lessons of effective or highly effective teachings from school -based supervisors who are or will be involved in observing our educators.

Talk and recommendations are cheap instead show me how on videotape of your effectively-rated lesson in my field/subject area as an example.Videotaped lessons of the school-based supervisor/s as well as evidence of her/his academic background in the area/s of observation will help us otherwise it will still be an exercise in futility

Peace

Francis

fsmedu@msn.com

Cheating amongst principals are RAMPID.  90% of schools are changing grades!  FACT!  Does not really matter, no one can truly prove it.  Go for it!

Let’s see.  In every single lesson, every single day, within a time period of, say, 45 minutes, every teacher should be asking every student a question, waiting for an answer, giving acknowledgement/acknowledgment to each student in order to “prove” he/she is a highly effective teacher.  Hmmm.  At what point in that time frame does he/she TEACH?  With 30 students, given 1.5 min of Q/A time, that would take the 45 minutes.   Also, the students that are in a particular class can be stacked against a teacher who isn’t a butt kisser to his/her “superiors”.  Honestly, it is not applicable to the teaching profession.  I just think this business model … is ridiculous.

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I don’t know any principals that change student grades Slick. As for the rubric for how teachers should be rated, I would like to see one of these people come in and teach a class of thirty students for a month and be rated every day for a month with their own rubric. Most of them would fail using their own rubric. Go Pink Lady

It WAS a complete joke with Klein. Yearly reorganizations, creating an anti-teacher environment, demonizing teachers in a way that rivaled Hitler’s demonization of the Jews, no-bid contracts for failed, flawed curriculum programs like Everyday Math, Reader’s Workshop and Writer’s Workshop resulted in the dumbing down of the tests in order to give the false illusion that Kleins “reforms” were working.

And the word is “deputies,” NOT “deputy’s.”

That seems to the point of the rubric