More in-depth evaluations for Grand Forks teachers
December 19, 2012 at 2:53 pm in Grand Forks Herald
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More in-depth evaluations for Grand Forks teachers
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UND faculty next … one in particular.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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How about parent evaluation. End of year, exit questionaire/comments.
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Agreed ……as long as each teacher gets to go to the home of each student and evaluate the parenting techniques and make recommendations to help them become better parents in developing their children.
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Unfortunately not all teachers are parents and what they are “book taught” doesn’t always apply to real life. Obviously they would have to be taken with a grain of salt…. but something could be gained.
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And the reverse is true for parents and their knowledge of how children learn and have not taught anything to groups of 25 or more and don’t know all the real life things that are part of classroom maintenance.
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I come from a family deeply rooting in education as educators & administrators. As parents we barely survived one bad teacher. Fear of being labeled and giving our kids the stigma of having “those parents” for the rest of thier school years prevented us from taking action. Being able to provide end of year comments would have, at the very least, made us feel like we tried. Tried to save other children.
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This link will take you to the North Dakota Teacher Evaluation Guidelines. On page 6 you will find that student and parent surveys are recommended.
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/ESEA/North%20Dakota%20Teacher%20Evaluation%20Guidelines,%20Final%20Approved%20Version,%207.0.pdf
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Finally, and long overdue. I wish they would have had the principle observing the class many times a year in the 80s and before, it may have stopped a lot of the beatings. Really, though, this could not be needed more, with our education system being ranked 28th globally. All of this is moot, however, if the teachers are not disciplined up to and including termination if they do not make the changes recommended by the principle.
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I am not trying to be a smart alek here, but do you mean principal (ie. school administrator) or pricinple (ie, some guiding doctrine)? If the latter, what would that be?
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Oh, yes you are. He clearly used the “ple” construction earlier in the sentence to refer to a human being.
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Far be it for me one of the biggest typo and spelling hacks on here to correct you, but I do think the “pal” ending refers to the person. I remember learning that the “Principal” was spelled like that because he was our “Pal”. Something I kept in mind when the vice had me in the office now and then…..What a “Pal”
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Right you are, tundra. My point was that if tom misused the term once, he probably misused it twice. I also remember the “pal” thing…
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Gene, I was being Joycean, which is what text means when it refers to the writing of James Joyce. It is denied to make the reader think it through, find humor in, basically to provoke more thought than a simple sentence. Glad to see it did.
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Joycean generally means 100 pages of stream of consciousness narrative and no punctuation, with 500 Classical and Biblical allusions.
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That is your interpretation, not mine.
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Never did care for Joyce….Give me a real word smith like Hess any day.
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Any school I went to it was the principal that did the beating on kids. Who is watching him/her? And talk about being mouthed off to … I learned it at school … not at home.
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Please give actual words for someone to mouth off…..only then can we examine the content and determine who said what to you and what you learned.
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How about if I just give you the one that stands out the clearest in my memory. After failing a geometry test my teacher said the following to me. “I’m thinking of a word that describes you perfectly. It starts with an s and it ends in a d.” He said this in front of the entire class. My parents didn’t find it as funny as he did.
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I can give several examples without even thinking hard. Let’s see, a teacher chasing a crying 11 year old down the hallway slapping his back with a book. A teacher grabbing a 12 year old by the neck and shoving his face in his paper when the boy had the audacity to not understand a math problem. A teacher spanking two 9 year olds with a belt. A teacher spanking two 11 year olds with a paddle. And, a teacher close fisted punching a 12 year old. Did I have some great teachers? You bet I did. Some, however, are lucky they avoided a jail cell. This myth that all teachers have hearts of gold and have given up riches and should be met with pity is a canard. Some teachers changed my life and I am very grateful for them. Others should not have been allowed to own a dog. Having someone monitor them is long, long, long overdue.
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What the hell…You’re one of us old timers too? I thought that coporal punishment got stopped in the 80′s or so. I went to a Catholic school in first grade and the nun taught me the taste of Lava soap…The old stuf with all the git. I’m 58 and I just have to think of the soap to get a vivid memory of the taste…….Yummy.
Jr. High our gym teacher and football coach would have us grab ankles in our gym shorts and whack us with a huge thick paddle with the words “Board Of Education” on it. Those shorts were so thin that it was basically the same as wearing nothing. Let’s see…What’s the bi-line on that again…Oh ya…It built character…It made us tough. Funny how that same coach watched me an eigth grader fighting a ninth grader who jumped me and did nothing until I threw him off and started beating the hell out of him….I was second string..So I got kicked off the team for fighting…..I guess I had a little too much character built in to those tough lessons of violence eh?
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Oh..By the way..The Lava soap wasn’t even for swearing…I was one of the class clowns who just couldn’t let a funny moment pass without saying someting…..It was usually for talking out of turn and/or getting other kids to laugh…Fun times…
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