How Would You Evaluate Mr. Jackson?

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1. Dienne says:

   October 5, 2014 at 12:09 pm

   Mr. Jackson is clearly making excuses. Off with his head!

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2. dunl0005 says:

   October 5, 2014 at 12:10 pm

   Hilarious!

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3. Middle school teacher says:

   October 5, 2014 at 12:12 pm

   Well, there’s not enough information. If 8 students have IEPs, we should know what they are for. An example might be 3 with ADHD (some with medication, some not), 2 on Autism spectrum, 1 with hearing loss (FM system broken, of course), 1 with epilepsy, and 1 with Down syndrome. Oh…wait…none of this matters. Did the students score well on the CCSS test? If the teacher is highly skilled and has high expectations, they should have had SUCCESS, like ROCKETSHIPS, and ACHIEVED, and…well, you get the point.

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4. artseagal says:

   October 5, 2014 at 12:14 pm

   Let us add an outbreak of pink eye, one student whose eyeglasses broke two weeks ago but cannot get them fixed but must still read the test, the student who is visiting family and is going to their home country for two weeks and leaves on the day of testing, 5 students who are pulled out for various servicing from speech,to instrumental, to an ESL class constantly but are finally at their desks on test day, a directive that comes about a change in the SLO which requires you to do another pre test before days end so you squeeze it in before today’s big test, a computer crash that is temporary – for an hour during your “pressed for time” school day but at the start of the day so taking attendance is effected. I would say that the “teacher evaluation” test should be more about how a teacher manages to keep his/her sanity in the age of “ed reform”!

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5. MathVale says:

   October 5, 2014 at 12:14 pm

   42

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   • Dienne says:

     October 5, 2014 at 1:37 pm

     +1

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   • Duane Swacker says:

     October 6, 2014 at 2:19 pm

     Nah, it’s 364.

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6. Linda Townsend says:

   October 5, 2014 at 12:25 pm

   For his own sanity and good health, Mr. Jackson needs to find another job To stay in this job is slow suicide. Unfortunately, there are way too many “Mr. Jacksons” in our school systems, struggling against corporatization of the system to do what they became teachers to do — teach kids. Teaching is an art. It’s been turned into bean counting by those who value nothing but their own power and greed.

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7. M says:

   October 5, 2014 at 1:33 pm

   Does Mr. Jackson have a screaming infant at home that he takes care of too?

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8. zamanskym says:

   October 5, 2014 at 1:44 pm

   We’re missing a key piece of information. If Eva has her eyes set on his school’s space, he must be found ineffective so we can label his school as failing and close it so Eva has room.

   Otherwise, he can be rated higher for the time being.

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9. Steve B says:

   October 5, 2014 at 2:21 pm

   Maybe Bill Gates can pay a consortium $1M to solve this problem so that they can come back and tell us how unprepared for college and career we are. Singapore, South Korea, and Finland aren’t ahead of us academically…they are actually part of a global consortium that grows in amazement at the utter stupidity of his common core.

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   • Laura H. Chapman says:

     October 5, 2014 at 4:46 pm

     Steve. Love your post.

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10. Tim says:

    October 5, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    I would grade him a 6 + 4 which equals a 2 + 4 + 4 which equals a 2 + 8 which equals an A!(I think?)

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11. Mary Horsley says:

    October 6, 2014 at 10:08 am

    Mr. Jackson is highly frustrated and stresses!

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