/tags/classroom-contemplations Classroom Contemplations en-US SAąúĽĘ´«Ä± Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:01:00 GMT /education/2014-08-25/essay-what-a-teacher-score-doesnt-tell-us I finally know my worth as a teacher—and now that the “value-added model” scores mandated by our state legislature are public, everyone else knows, too.… Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:01:00 GMT /education/2014-08-25/essay-what-a-teacher-score-doesnt-tell-us /education/2014-06-23/how-to-teach-brown-v-board-to-a-class-of-all-black-students Here’s a question: How do you teach a class of all black students in an all-black school that Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation decades… Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:32:33 GMT /education/2014-06-23/how-to-teach-brown-v-board-to-a-class-of-all-black-students /2013-07-02/classroom-contemplations-the-teaching-that-evaluations-ignore One of the things I want to do through this series is to expand the discussion of a teacher’s value. We cannot let the worth of teachers be defined narrowly Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:22:34 GMT /2013-07-02/classroom-contemplations-the-teaching-that-evaluations-ignore /2013-06-27/classroom-contemplations-testing-reinforces-bad-behavior There are some real perils to systems which try to reduce teacher performance to a single number, such as many of our new “value-added” formulas. The first is that whatever Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:00:43 GMT /2013-06-27/classroom-contemplations-testing-reinforces-bad-behavior