Do HS teachers prefer certain schools in FCPS (i.e. higher SES schools)?
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Anonymous
When you look at the overall teacher satisfaction ratings, the higher SES schools tended to be ranked higher, with Falls Church an obvious outlier. The lowest ranked schools in the last survey were mostly lower SES high schools (e.g., Annandale, Edison, Herndon, Stuart). |
Anonymous
+2 |
Anonymous
Are you on something? No one here has any idea what you're blathering on about. Nor do we care. |
Anonymous
I suppose you don't care that your children's teacher can't stand you either. Toodles... |
Anonymous
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I taught in wealthy high schools and work in a high poverty one now. I find my job much more fulfilling and interesting working in the high poverty school. I feel there is more of a need for my expertise in connecting math concepts to real life learning than I did when I worked at the wealthy school. In my old school over 90 percent passed the Alg. 1 SOL. Even sections with a long term sub who was clueless, the kids clocked pass rates in the 90's.
In my current one it was less than 40 percent. Currently, after being here three years, my class has a nearly 80 percent pass rate. I worked like crazy and yes I look less competent when I taught in the wealthy district by people who judge teachers by test performance, but my work has doubled the amount of children who earned a verified credit. That's what drives me to continue to excel and work hard. The kids are immigrants and poor and need that credit to graduate. Yes, they aren't asking for recommendations to UVA, but talking to the kids about career options and community college and social services support for healthcare (many don't have any) feels important to me. My wealthy school had plenty-o-issues in the behavior department, btw. It was different stuff, but high school kids can be difficult regardless of where they are from economically. |
Anonymous
You sound like one crazy bitch. |
Anonymous
Yes, according to a lot of out-of-school administrators and bureaucrats and, unfortunately, many other teachers, you're only as smart as the students you teach. |
Anonymous
| Teachers --- are you evaluated or judged by your boss based on the number of kids who pass exams? Seems like that would be a disincentive to teach at schools were kids start out being behind the curve. |
Anonymous
We have to show growth on our SLO, not proficiency. If we are ever judged by proficiency, I am gone from my Title One school. It's a constant catch up game. Students come in below grade level and while they make good progress during the school year, they lose it every summer and then we start all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat. |
Anonymous
How do they loose it? I don't understand this. Maybe title 1 schools shouldn't have summer break. |
Anonymous
What's "SLO"? We are both teachers and assume you are referencing your personal goal, but can't figure out what that stands for. |
Anonymous
It's lose, not loose. How do students lose the progress they made during the school year? They go home and play Xbox for 10-12 weeks. While your kids are going to the library and doing summer reading or just reading for fun, my students might read the back of a cereal box. While you send your kids to camp and go on vacations and trips to museums, etc, my students might go to Chuck E. Cheese or down the street to the park. Your kids might do summer workbooks or study math facts or do online summer work, my kids don't do the assigned summer work even when incentives are offered. They all have Internet access to our free online reading program but very few of them read online during the summer. This is the summer slide and it's worse for lower income students. This article is a few years old, but it is still very true today. "The conclusion: while students made similar progress during the school year, regardless of economic status, the better-off kids held steady or continued to make progress during the summer--but disadvantaged students fell back. By the end of grammar school, low-income students had fallen nearly three grade levels behind, and summer was the biggest culprit. By ninth grade, summer learning loss could be blamed for roughly two-thirds of the achievement gap separating income groups." http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2005863,00.html |
Anonymous
Student Learning Objectives - it's a well-known term in teaching circles. In other words, progress (even if not mastery or grade-level performance). |
Anonymous
+1,000 Wouldn't you hate to have a parent like that in your class. |
Anonymous
So, no summer break. Got it. |