When I read the article, "Los Angeles to Develop Value-Added Teacher Evaluations" by Connie Llanos, it wasn't the thought of implementing teacher evaluations that astounded me. It was the cost to implement. In a world where budget cuts are happening on an almost daily basis, I am shocked that a school system would pay $4.5 million dollars to contractors to "study and develop the new teacher evaluation methods." (Llanos, 2010)
Maybe if we thougth about giving teachers that kind of money for resources for their classrooms, improved school infrastructures and technology, we wouldn't feel the need to base teacher evaluations on student achievement. Why is it that the closest to our children in the classroom are the furtherest from the old purse strings?
Los Angeles to Develop Value-Added Teacher Evaluations. Connie Llanos. L.A. Daily New - Teacher Magazine. 11/11/10. Retrieved 11/11/10.
I like that you wrote about this article. Teacher evaluations are a hot topic these days and it makes meetings heated when we hear more and more about budget cuts, yet us teachers are going to be evaulated using a system that costs a great deal of money. We already do our jobs for little pay...we are here for the kids obviously...but implementing evaulations that cost so much just seems like a slap in our faces. I really wish sometimes that the whole education process was thought through more than it is..maybe then we wouldn't be in the situation we are in right now!
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