Daniel Willingham has a video that was on his site that proves that teachers cannot be measured by test scores and that they cannot be measured by so-called value added test scores either. Smart man.

Malkin-I hate this article

Read Dr.Sally Shaywitz

Children of the Code and her MRI work at Yale and the Connecticut Longitudinal Study-

This postulate does not help anything when teaching kids who struggle-from left brain-explicits-to right brain-comprehension-it`s a voyage-

Dean,when I teach my struggling readers and spellers I test myself with pre - post tests-I know if I am being effective-
When I train teachers,I train them to do this with tests and they love it.

Your posting is ridiculous-
Every teacher who is effective has improved scores end of year and prides herself on those accomplishments.

If the teacher struggles with a few and not the majority of the class-we are not stupid,we`ll give an inch and a mile.

Don’t argue with me, Argue with Willingham and the myriad of other experts who say you cannot judge teachers with any degree of accuracy with student esting. The same teachers vary wildly from year to year.

Teachers in wealthy areas not only get better scores they get better value added scores as well because affluent students not only start 1-2 years ahead, they learn faster and learn more per year so you are dealing with apples and oranges as usual.

Ah-but Dean-those are your experts-and your views are toast-people want accountability-notice Rob Ford new mayor

I can argue with you all I want!.

You support Ford? Don’t make me laugh, he will make Lastman look sophisticated very soon. In 2 years nobody will admit to voting for him.

Dean, too right!

Just like that intelligent union leadership that told us vote for Bob Rae.  Didn’t hear them admit that a couple of years later either.  ;-0

Remember the Dean/Doug hypocrisy folks. By day….defender of the rank and file.
By night…..heavy hitter administrator of an elite private school.
His opinion is moot to me.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/class-size/7-class-size-myths——and-the.html

The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education has concluded that class size reduction is one of only four, evidence-based reforms that have been proven to increase student achievement through rigorous, randomized experiments—the “gold standard” of research. (The other three reforms are one-on-one tutoring by qualified tutors for at-risk readers in grades 1-3; life-skills training for junior high students, and instruction for early readers in phonics – and not one of the policies that the corporate reformers are pushing.

Have you seen one of these research based -especially phonics early years-implemented by our politicians or Ministries-