Does Georgia now have a teacher evaluation system only a sadist could love?

Credit: Maureen Downey

Credit: Maureen Downey

The presenter responded: "The language of the standards states a Level 3 teacher consistently performs a certain action, and that a Level 4 teacher continually performs that action.  So consider a medical analogy: If you take a vitamin daily, but you forget to take it on vacation or the occasional  Sunday  morning, then it's safe to say you take that vitamin consistently, but the only real way to take it continually is to be hooked up to an IV bag."

When last year's scores finally came out in November I was shocked my pass rate had dropped from the usual 90 percent or higher to 29 percent.  I had changed schools in between, same county, but I didn't feel like my new students were that much worse off than any other group I had ever taught, and surely my teaching ability didn't decline that much  in one year .