Education Weekley #20

In the article Developing Better Teacher Evaluation Systems they ask the big questions on whether teacher evaluation systems are working and how should we evaluate our teachers. This has been a question that has plagued school districts from adopting a value added system. Some issues that arise are what weight do you put student testing performance and administration evaluations. The article states that some states are thinking 50/50. The toughest part about student test scores is that students come to your classroom with prior knowledge or lack there of. In Hillsborough County, FL they believe they have a solution to this problem. They have students take a pre and post test for the year. This allows for administrators to see the progress a student makes during the course of the year, or the teachers 'added value'. I feel as a future teacher it would be unfair with out a pre and post test to be judged on a 'value added' system because you may have students that do not have the core curriculum to make the advancements in the subject matter. I feel 'value added' can be a great way to evaluate teachers but there still is work to do on the current system.