Saturday, October 11, 2008

Teacher Working Conditions

There was recently an article in the N&O about the Teacher Working Conditions survey, suggesting that principals' evaluations (and, potentially, employment) are tied to TWC results.

Do you believe that principals should be evaluated on their TWC results? Why or why not?

Friday, October 3, 2008

PLCs

You are a teacher working in a school, and your principal just got back from a two-day DuFour workshop. She is fired up to create a PLC at your school, and she tells the staff that you are going to start working in collaborative teams, creating common assessments, analyzing student data, and differentiating based on assessment results. You are skeptical.

What are all of the concerns that you have about this new initiative? If the principal were to ask you "Why shouldn't we do this?", what would you tell her?