AVOIDING A RUSH TO JUGDEMENT: TEACHER EVALUATION AND TEACHER QUALITY

As I have read the article “Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Quality”, it serve as my eye opener of the
situation about teaching evaluation. This article explores the causes and consequences of the crisis in
teacher evaluation. The primary purpose of teacher evaluation is to improve teaching practice, which
results in increased student achievement. Sad to say that the troubled state of teacher evaluation is
focused on public education. It is said that public education is stiil have this typical “drive by”
evaluations. This means that they only focus the outer part of the teacher like “Is presentably dressed”,
“starts on time”, “room is safe”, and “The lesson occupies the students”. Which made their evaluation in
to squandered. Principals use evaluations to help teachers improve their performance as rarely as they
give unsatisfactory rating regardless of wether their student learn. It is also said that public education
defines teacher quality largely in terms of the credentials that teacher have earned, rather than on the
basis of the quality of the work they do in their classroom or the results their students achieve.

By knowing and understanding after reading the article and all about teachers evaluation, so sad that it
is half true, because not all public education have this kind of practices, the traditional way of evaluating
a teacher. There are also lots of public education that follows the real process of evaluating a teacher
and that their focused is learner centered. And that I am hoping that these practice will be also observe
to other public education.