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I'd like to give Elena Aguilar, the author of this blog post, a big Yay! for the points she makes. It scares me to think that we, as teachers, may be evaluated solely on the test scores of our students. There are so many other indicators of whether or not a teacher is effective in the classroom. A paper and pencil test cannot evaluate how well a teacher piqued the curiosity of his/her students, instilled a love of learning in their minds and hearts, or boosted their morale just when they need it most. There are many measures of whether or not a student had a successful year of learning--not just the answers to the subject-area tests that someone outside of the classroom decided were important.
The original blog post by Elena Aguilar, "Measuring a Teacher's Effectiveness Goes Beyond Test Scores," can be viewed at : http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teacher-effectiveness-measuring-test-scores-elenaaguilarutm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
I agree! If teachers where allowed to soley teach and not have any other responsibilities that come along with being a teacher. . .fine evaluate me by a test. However, teachers provide much more than knowledge to their students as you pointed out. More than test scores should be used to evaluate a teacher. I hope that most people realize that evaluating teachers by a single measure is not reliable. We don't give our students a grade by a single assessments. It doesn't make sense to apply this method to teachers.
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