Are teachers judged by ecart test and quiz scores and Iready or just SOL scores

[Anonymous]

On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

[Anonymous]

Depends on the principal and school. IReady is a very poor test. It is heavily language based and confusing. They do math all theoretically and not how it is taught. I had to reread several times to figure out what they getting at and I’m not eight years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

We are judged on none of the above, including SOL scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

We are judged on none of the above, including SOL scores.

Signed,

A school Administrator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

We are judged on none of the above, including SOL scores.

Signed,

A school Administrator

Are you an administrator agreeing with me?

Signed,
The PP, Fourth Grade Teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

We are judged on none of the above, including SOL scores.

Signed,

A school Administrator

Are you an administrator agreeing with me?

Signed,
The PP, Fourth Grade Teacher

Not agreeing—I’ve seen enough examples of teachers being compared, praised, or their expertise questioned based on ecart or SOL scores.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

We are judged on none of the above, including SOL scores.

Signed,

A school Administrator

Are you an administrator agreeing with me?

Signed,
The PP, Fourth Grade Teacher

Not agreeing—I’ve seen enough examples of teachers being compared, praised, or their expertise questioned based on ecart or SOL scores.

Luckily that has not been our (two teacher household) experience.

[Anonymous]

Was this the test happening nowa?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was this the test happening nowa?

"Now"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: On another thread on a different board here someone mentioned a teacher getting yelled at over her classes' Iready scores. I am wondering- do they get judged by how the class is doing on Ecart Math, Science and Social Studies too? How often does the principal "judge" them and what is said exactly?

We are judged on none of the above, including SOL scores.

Signed,

A school Administrator

Are you an administrator agreeing with me?

Signed,
The PP, Fourth Grade Teacher

Not agreeing—I’ve seen enough examples of teachers being compared, praised, or their expertise questioned based on ecart or SOL scores.

Perhaps this is more prevalent at Title 1 Schools.

[Anonymous]

Test scores are the beginning and end at my Title One school. Every piece of data is another source of how crappy the teachers are. Past admins have had no issue just yelling at us about how we are letting our students down. I doubt my friends in the county schools get yelled at for their data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Test scores are the beginning and end at my Title One school. Every piece of data is another source of how crappy the teachers are. Past admins have had no issue just yelling at us about how we are letting our students down. I doubt my friends in the county schools get yelled at for their data.

Are you not at a county school?

We haven't done anything with IReady scores yet. I know there are plans to sit down and review them after the second window. We certainly don't ever get yelled at for them. Admin has always stood with a, "It's just one piece of data" stance. With that said, there is really no other test data to go over to this point.

[Anonymous]

Are teachers behind the growth model verses achievement model or do they see that also as too much a reflection on them?

[Anonymous]

Test scores are the beginning and end at my Title One school. Every piece of data is another source of how crappy the teachers are. Past admins have had no issue just yelling at us about how we are letting our students down. I doubt my friends in the county schools get yelled at for their data.

This is my experience at a Title 1 school, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Test scores are the beginning and end at my Title One school. Every piece of data is another source of how crappy the teachers are. Past admins have had no issue just yelling at us about how we are letting our students down. I doubt my friends in the county schools get yelled at for their data.

This is my experience at a Title 1 school, too.

There should be a way to test teachers who can't teach. There are some great teachers, but the bad ones can really hurt a student. Not just that year but in subsequent years. How else could you identify these teachers? If there is a problem with what the school is teaching or students learning that can be fixed. If there is a problem with the teacher that can be fixed. All professions have a measuring stick to test performance. If your data is bad do something to fix it-that means something wrong. All kids deserve a good education.