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NYC Teacher Rating Tweets – A Tale of Unintended Consequences

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Last week, ratings for New York City teachers who teach English Language Arts and math in grades 4 – 8 were released and published by New York City newspapers. These links demonstrate why doing so might be be such a great idea.

Teacher test scores go online in New York City. “The teachers will be right to feel assaulted and compromised here… from every perspective it sets the wrong tone.” Merry Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents!!! Scores are distributed on a curve so 5% have to be bad regardless of the real number. @NYTimes

Here is the link to the same topic in the NY Post with links to methodology, actual scores, and an editorial. @NYPost

Parents at her Queens school looking for a different classroom for their children. Get ready for lots more of this. @NY Post

There is no Lake Wobegon in New York City. In a high performing school someone has to be below average. More fallout form publishing test scores. This is officially stupid. @DrDougGreen.Com @NYTimes

This is the damage being done by the publication of the Teacher Test ratings in NYC. Shame on NYCDoE. @chrislehman @phsprincipal

How to Demoralize Teachers by @DianeRavitch @MiguelEscotet

Linda Darling-Hammond: Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching @bhsprincipal

Hard-Working Teachers, Sabotaged When Student Test Scores Slip. @prismdecision This is an example of problems caused by the ceiling effect and small sample sizes. @DrDougGreen

Hard-Working Teachers, Sabotaged When Student Test Scores Slip @NYTimes

Error Rates in Measuring Teacher and School Performance Based on Student Test Score Gains This makes use of test scores to evaluate teachers even more shaky. @mcleod

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So You Want to Be a Dr. When You Grow Up?

Monday, February 6th, 2012

I received a request for this post from Will Deyamport, III, who as @peoplegogy is one of my Twitter favorites. Hope you enjoy it. Also be sure to check his blog.

I find that have a number of Twitter friends out of 1500+ (as of this writing) involved in doctoral work or considering it. For educators contemplating this adventure, I offer the following guidance. If you find that you have additional questions, don’t hesitate to send an email to Doug@DrDougGreen.Com.

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The Rise of the New Groupthink – Collaboration May Be Over Rated

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

The Rise Of the New Groupthink by Susan Cain (New York Times, January, 15, 2012, pp. 1, 6 Business Section) explains how there might be an overemphasis on collaboration in business and school settings that is hurting creativity. Working together is fine, but you need to provide for quiet time for people to work alone and avoid too much in the way of get togethers. This has implications for building design and explains why standard brain storming techniques are counter productive. It is rare for me to summarize a newspaper article, but this is a must read. Here is the link to the article.

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Information on iBooks 2, iBook Author, & iTunes U

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

In case you missed this on Jan 20, 2012 Apple roles out iBooks 2. Try starting at the ten minute point. iBook author comes next. Skip to 49 minute point for new iTunes U app.

Here is a comment on the iBooks concept. You can’t afford Apple’s education revolution but it is the future. @zecool @dcannell

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Kindergarten: A book for teachers and parents

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

KINDERGARTEN: Tattle-Tales, Tools, Tactics, Triumphs, and Tasty Treats for Teachers and Parents by Susan Case(©2011, AWOC.Com Publishing: Denton, TX) is full of great advice for educators and parents dealing with this critical age group. If you believe that getting preschool and kindergarten right is important, this book is for you. It has many endearing stories and will give you hundreds of ideas and websites to help with behavior, reading, disabilities, science experiments, and cooking. Click the icon below to purchase a book for yourself and your favorite kindergarten teachers and parents.

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