http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/index.php/2010/02/09/testing-teachers/ Representing You... Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:40:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/index.php/2010/02/09/testing-teachers/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Liz Steele Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:57:53 +0000 http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/?p=1450#comment-146 Paying teachers according to test scores is a ridiculous and horrible idea.  My teachers bend over backwards to help my daughter who has a reading disability and does poorly on those stupid tests.  But I know how hard all her teachers have worked to help her with reading.  Her teachers are the reason she does as well as she does.  This makes me furious!!!!! Paying teachers according to test scores is a ridiculous and horrible idea.  My teachers bend over backwards to help my daughter who has a reading disability and does poorly on those stupid tests.  But I know how hard all her teachers have worked to help her with reading.  Her teachers are the reason she does as well as she does.  This makes me furious!!!!!

]]> http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/index.php/2010/02/09/testing-teachers/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Ellen H Bloedel Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:48 +0000 http://www.utahhousedemocrats.org/?p=1450#comment-140 Teachers should be judged on changes or improvements in test scores of students. 40% going to "teacher development" is way too high: so much of this is just paper-pushing and benefits only the presenters of the conferences and seminars.  Parent evaluations do not deserve 20% until parents put education first and put "my child, right or wrong" a very distant second. Thank you Teachers should be judged on changes or improvements in test scores of students. 40% going to "teacher development" is way too high: so much of this is just paper-pushing and benefits only the presenters of the conferences and seminars.  Parent evaluations do not deserve 20% until parents put education first and put "my child, right or wrong" a very distant second.
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