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MISSION: Fight this man's filthy ideas: As you grow up in this world you realize people really don t give a sh** about what you feel or what you think. coupons for alamo rent a car --Common Core architect David Coleman at NYSED, April 2011
A powerful piece, coupons for alamo rent a car questioning the unquestionable: just what gives Charlotte Danielson the authority and expertise to play God with people's teaching reputations and careers. coupons for alamo rent a car This is all important to teachers in cities across the nation, as her Danielson Framework rubrics are being used variously as tools for constructive criticism or as a rapid fire assault weapon to nit-pick at how teachers coupons for alamo rent a car teach. As a few people coupons for alamo rent a car have said, one would have to be a Greek god to attain the "Highly Developed" category. Even a few principals have acknowledged that this is level is really, really exceptional.
Her Frameworks are of special concern in New York City, as the United coupons for alamo rent a car Federation of Teachers lobbied for, and secured, in King's evaluation plan, an even higher number of 22 points , whereas the city Department of Education only wanted a handful. This kind of ill-minded choice is emblematic of a UFT leadership years removed from the classroom .
So much of the education reform movement rests on unquestioning acceptance of certain assumptions. The blind acceptance of assumptions represent a modern day manifestation of the Emperor's New Clothes. Hitherto, no one, except bloggers, has publicly questioned her qualifications or her teacher evaluation program. The classic essence of her program is micro-managing deskilling teachers of their professional craft. The language and the motivations that Danielson and her reformer kin have uncanny parallels with Taylorism's deskilling. The iPad and other computer coupons for alamo rent a car tools for deskilling coupons for alamo rent a car make this a kind of Digital coupons for alamo rent a car Taylorism .
The reformers when touting their poisons love to make international comparisons. When pushing the Common Core they allege that their standards are "internationally benchmarked." Where is the evidence that the PISA high-flying nations are following the Charlotte Danielson model? Oh, that's right, it's tackling extremes of income gaps , not the testing regime of Discipline and Punish.
This Huffington Post article opens with reference to the New York Times' adulation for New York State Education Commissioner John King's imposition of a new teacher evaluation system on New York City teachers. It then cites aligned praise for the system, from both mayor Michael Bloomberg and United coupons for alamo rent a car Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew (Unity Caucus).
coupons for alamo rent a car Unfortunately, nobody, not the Times, the New York State Education Department, the New York City Department of Education, nor the teachers' union have demonstrated any positive correlation between teacher assessments based on the Danielson rubrics, good teaching, and the implementation of new higher academic standards for students under Common Core.
A case demonstrating the relationship could have been made, if it actually exists. A format based on the Danielson rubrics is already being used to evaluate teachers in at least thirty-three struggling schools in New York City and by one of the supervising networks. Kentucky has been using an adapted version of Danielson's Framework for Teaching to evaluate teachers since 2011 and according to the New Jersey Department of Education, sixty percent of nearly 500 school districts in the state are using teacher evaluation models developed by the [Princeton, N.J.-based] Danielson Group . The South Orange/Maplewood and Cherry Hill , New Jersey schools have used the Danielson model for several years.
According to the Times editorial , the "new evaluation system could make it easier to fire markedly poor performers" and help "the great majority of teachers become better at their jobs." coupons for alamo rent a car But as far as I can tell, the new evaluation system is mostly a weapon to harass teachers and force them to follow dubious scripted lessons.
Ironically, in a pretty comprehensive search on the Internet, I have had difficulty discovering who Charlotte Danielson really is and what her qualifications are for developing a teacher evaluation system. According to the website of the Danielson Group, "the Group consists of consultants of the highest caliber, talent, and experience in educational practice, leadership, and research." It provides "a wide array of professional development and consulting services to clients across coupons for alamo rent a car the United coupons for alamo rent a car States and abroad" and is "the only organization approved by Charlotte Danielson to provide training and consultation around the Framework for Teaching."
The group's services come at a cost, which is not a surprise, although you have to apply for their services to get an actual price quote. Individuals who participated in a three-day workshop at the King of Prussia campus of Arcadia University in Pennsylvania paid $599 each. A companion four-week online class cost $1,809 per person. coupons for alamo rent a car According to a comparison chart prepared by the Alaska Department of Education, the "Danielson Group uses 'bundled' coupons for alamo rent a car pricing that is inclusive of the consultant's daily rate, hotel and airfare. The current fee structure is $4,000 per consultant/per day when three or more consecutive days of training are scheduled. One and two-day rates are $4,500/per consultant/per day. We will also schedule keynote coupons for alamo rent a car presentations for large groups when feasible. A keynote presentations is for informational/overview purposes and does not constitute training in the Framework for Teaching."
Then, there's the juicy stuff: her stellar teaching expertise credentials. But puncture the myth, and everything gets very cloudy, very quickly. And why has she never gone into how many years, at which grade levels, at which schools, in which sort of school systems, urban, suburban, socially heterogenous coupons for alamo rent a car or homogenous, public or private? One wonders, is this like the grand myth that Michelle Rhee created for herself, that her impact as a Baltimore teacher was exemplary in the test score-raising measure, until someone destroyed the myth by unearthing her record to find that change in her classes was not what she purported? And where are the former teaching colleagues of Charlotte Danielson? These are important questions, as her rubric is used to terminate people and destroy their careers and reputations.
Charlotte Danielson is supposed to be "an internationally-recognized expert in the area of teacher effectiveness, specializing in the design of teacher evaluation systems that, while ensuring teacher quality, also promote professional learning" who "advises State Education Departments coupons for alamo rent a car and National Ministries and Departments of Education, both in the United States and overseas." Her online biography claims that she has "taught at all levels, from kindergarten through college, and has worked as an administrator, a curriculum director, and a staff developer" and to have degrees from Cornell, Oxford and Rutgers, but I can find no formal academic resume online. Her undergraduate degree seems to have been in history with a specialization in Chinese history and she studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and educational administration and supervision at Rutgers. While working as an economist in Washington, D.C., Danielson obtained her teaching credentials coupons for alamo rent a car and began work in her neighborhood elementary school, but it is not clear in what capacity or for how long. She developed her ideas for teacher coupons for alamo rent a car evaluation while working at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and since 1996 has published a series of books and articles with ASCD (the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development). I have seen photographs and video broadcasts online, but I am still not convinced she really exists as more than a front for the Danielson Group that is selling its teacher evaluation product.
The United Federation of Teachers and the online news journal Gotham Schools both asked a person purporting to be Charlotte Danielson to evaluate the initial Danielson rubrics being used in New York City schools. In a phone interview reported on in Gotham Schools , Danielson was supposedly in Chile selling her frameworks to the Chilean government, "Danielson was hesitant to insert herself coupons for alamo rent a car into an union-district battle, but did confirm that she disapproved of the checklist shown to her." The checklist "was inappropriate because of the way it was filled out. It indicated that the observer coupons for alamo rent a car had already begun evaluating coupons for alamo rent a car a teacher while in the classroom observation. She said that's a fundamental no-no."
[Postscript: Danielson's national reach is quite expansive. As her press release, celebrating the Danielson Group's 15th anniversary , from June 28, 2011, stated while celebrating record growth, beyond New Jersey and New York City, the Framework is the default evaluation system for Illinois, Los Angeles, coupons for alamo rent a car California and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as having state-wide adoption in Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho and South Dakota.]
Singer then gets to how the actual implementation of the Danielson Frameworks will involve superficial fifteen minute snapshots of what could be lessons ranging from 45 minutes to pairs of 50 minute block periods. These snap judgments are meant to cast judgment on an entire coupons for alamo rent a car lesson. (Actually this already has become standard practice under Bloomberg: with the widespread breakup of comprehensive high schools, out have gone the subject department coupons for alamo rent a car chairs would would be observing assistant principals. Typically coupons for alamo rent a car these traditional APs would have been seasoned veteran teachers. Now under the Bloomberg era of smaller schools the departmental coupons for alamo rent a car APs are gone. So, the observers are often people coupons for alamo rent a car of an entirely different background. So, a former gym teacher can now observe a chemistry class, having limited coupons for alamo rent a car understanding of the subject. Worse, often principals, from the Leadership Academy, have little or no classroom experience.)
Commendably, he points to how inappropriate it is for someone to note a fraction of someone's performance, and then make a global j