These are the facts, 42 percent of Florida's teachers were rated highly effective yet only 15 percent of Duvals were. Does that mean as a group we suck or is there something else at work like the district desperately trying to save money as this years crop of highly effective teachers can expect a bit more under their Christmas tree. Actually who knows as the contract negotiations drag on and on.
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5423/urlt/1314EduEvalRatings.pdf
I don't think it should be lost on anybody that a report came out today saying Duval's teachers are some of the lowest paid not only in Florida but in the nation too.
http://news.wjct.org/post/study-shows-duval-county-ranks-among-lowest-teacher-salaries
Is there a relationship between the two? You bet your ass there is as the district continues to both marginalize and nickle and dime teachers. The CAST a long and confusing evaluation tool is I believe designed to limit the amount of highly effective teachers and the reason is so the district can save money.
To read more click the link: http://news.wjct.org/post/fdoe-releases-preliminary-teacher-vam-results
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5423/urlt/1314EduEvalRatings.pdf
I don't think it should be lost on anybody that a report came out today saying Duval's teachers are some of the lowest paid not only in Florida but in the nation too.
http://news.wjct.org/post/study-shows-duval-county-ranks-among-lowest-teacher-salaries
Is there a relationship between the two? You bet your ass there is as the district continues to both marginalize and nickle and dime teachers. The CAST a long and confusing evaluation tool is I believe designed to limit the amount of highly effective teachers and the reason is so the district can save money.
To read more click the link: http://news.wjct.org/post/fdoe-releases-preliminary-teacher-vam-results
Dirty sobs. Are we going to receive a bonus this year?
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ReplyDelete"The CAST a long and confusing evaluation tool is I believe designed to limit the amount of highly effective teachers and the reason is so the district can save money." I figured this would be the scenario the moment the Governor Rick Scott first proposed bonus incentives for high-performing teachers. Likewise, in 2007 I predicted the last big recession when most Americans did not have a clue it was coming.I bet most 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year teachers in Jacksonville Urban Schools got 'Developing/Needs Improvement' in 2012/13. It seems the same conspiracy has been hatched all over again in 2013/14. So, no bonus for these teachers. Duval teachers need to start researching other career possibilities because this current trend will persist for a long, long time. Also, why are they forcing education on a people whose culture is opposed to it. If they are comfortable with working shovels and cleaning offices and schools and doing other menial jobs let them; you can take the horse to the water hole, but you can't make it drink the water. You might be even kicked!
ReplyDeleteJax culture is extremely anti-intellectual. First I thought about my ignorant and proud of it students being doomed to minimum wage jobs, then I thought they'll actually be LUCKY to get a minimum wage job. They don't care. They probably just think they'll live on welfare or disability.
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