If you don't think this is a valid way to rate teachers, then come on board by signing our petition to repeal the teacher evaluation laws in NYS and send evaluation back to local districts free from state mandates. We need your help or this will not get off the ground.
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Student roster maintenance verification for MOSL: Teachers should have received an email from the Department of Education asking them to verify their class rosters before the Friday, May 4, deadline. Teachers should be aware that roster verification is important because it determines which students are linked to them for the Measures of Student Learning (MOSL) for their final rating as part of the Advance evaluation system. For more information, see the DOE guidance on roster verification.
Michael Mulgrew thinks this is a valid way to evaluate teachers. Do you? Now you can do something about it. |
The scam continues
ReplyDeleteMulgrew is a douche.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the arts and PE and other non tested subject teachers on all this nonsense? Why would I bother to check my roster when it doesn't matter if I teach the kids I am rated on. Why you ask? Well, it's because my MOSL will come from what ever regents my school assigns to us. They do look out and try to pick the regents the kids do best on like ELA or History but what does it matter? I teach music and 50 % of my eval is based on a regents I don't teach to. Teaching in NYC has become like teaching in Bizarro world.
ReplyDeletePE teacher here, the scam continues. 48 days left and I quit. No longer worth it.
ReplyDeleteYou know there’s a real problem when even the gym teachers are bitching
ReplyDeleteI'm a PE teacher too! Guess what? We have to deal with Danielson, differentiation, scaffolding, and all the other bullshit that gets thrown at classroom teachers. And if we don't we get developing ratings. We are miserable just like the rest of you.
ReplyDeleteWhy the heck do all the Ed reporters still go around telling people the tests don’t count for us? That is a flat out lie! I’ve had MOSL for four years now. And, my MOSL has been every one of the possible ratings. It’s absurd. And, the gym and foreign language teachers have it worst; at least in theory, my rating is based on the kids I work with. In actuality, it’s not, though. MOSL is a totally random number.
ReplyDeleteNow, here’s an idea for an Ed reporter. Go ask the DoE who made the spreadsheet which calculates the MOSL, and how cohort groups are selected. It’s really a funny story. I won’t spoil it for you; just ask. I’m probably not supposed to know what I know about it. So, just go ask them and, then see how they scramble.
Also, a funny endeavor is to call the Advance help desk and ask them how your MOSL is calculated. They have no clue. The reason they don’t know is related to my previous paragraph. Get specific and ask them how your comparison cohort is selected, and they can’t answer. Hint: it doesn’t seem to be from the cohort of schools which makes up the comparison cohort for your achool’s progress report. I think teachers should flood the advance help desk with legitimate questions. People need to know what horse crap this MOSL is.
What about students who simply dont care, or are idiots or are criminals. Thats my MOSL, or my class mangement.
ReplyDeleteOk, so the kid hit a teacher and was insubordinate in several ways, oh well, I guess its the ghetto lottery again. A Brooklyn principal who beat a boy in his care “nearly broke” the child’s collarbone, according to a lawsuit filed by the student’s family.
ReplyDeleteMachael Spencer-Edwards, best known for excluding students from a Valentine’s Day party because the kids didn’t wear pajamas, was arrested after he “savagely beat” Shema McKenzie’s son in a stairwell.
The PS 202 principal zeroed in on McKenzie’s then 7-year-old son, Hasheem Welch, in the cafeteria on March 13, 2017, after the boy, who had allegedly hit a teacher, ignored Spencer-Edwards’ instructions to stop running around, and to remove a hoodie the youngster was wearing.
Hasheem has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and “oppositional defiant disorder” and “could not quickly comply,” the mom claims in her Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.
That’s when the clothing-obsessed principal hauled Hasheem into a stairwell, where he grabbed him “by the collar, smacked him, choked him around the neck, and kicked him repeatedly for disobeying his order to take off his hoodie and sit down,” according to court papers.
MOSL scores have saved quite a few teachers from getting overall developing ratings. (If you get developing on your observations but effective on your MOSL your overall score is effective. (And please don't call me a Unity hack, as I am not. I am just merely mentioning a fact.) I do not think MOSL scores should be forced on any teacher who does not want to use them for evaluative purposes but I have no problem with a teacher who may want to choose to have that as part of their evaluation. What bugs me the most however, is the Danielson bullshit and the excessive amount of observations that we get compared to the rest of NYS. And yes, I signed the petition that is currently out there.
ReplyDeleteWhat saved teachers was when wack-a-doo admins would have to make a case that a teacher was ineffective and win a grievance. Now, they just give ineffectives and hope the random number generator backs them up. If it doesn’t this year, it will next year. All they need is for the MOSL whammy to hit once (and it will, in my experience), and they’ve got the teacher DOA. Goal is to get the old ones who are closest to getting a pension. An AP can wipe out their 27 years of service in one year, two tops if the MOSL whammy cycle isn’t in sync with AP’s observations. Time it right, and boom, no pension. State saves money and Teacher eats cat food ‘til they die. Great system Mulgrew.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, if you have 27 years of service and get shit canned for poor evaluations you will still get a pension.
ReplyDeleteEvery year under thirty is a reduction. They start going after people who get anywhere near 20 yrs.
DeleteTell me you haven’t seen the following scenario: a twenty-something former TFA sociopath who desperately needs a six-figure AP salary to pay their crazy student loan debt. They go after every experienced teacher in their department. It makes the Supes happy. If APs don’t go after the experienced teachers, the Supe starts visiting the building a lot. Magically picks the older teachers to visit from the master schedule. Then, puts their thumb on the scale to weigh down the ratings. If they don’t see the ratings come down in Advance, the Supe keeps coming back.
This was the obvious strategy in the last two years as Supes were trying to recalibrate the observation ratings that APs were giving. They wanted those Danielson ratings low, low, low, so they could manipulate the overall at the end of the year from Tweed by fudging the comparison cohort. When have you ever seen a Supe give positive feedback to a T? Never. This last paragraph is speculation based on research I have done. Since they prevaricate on comparison cohorts, it’s a pretty good bet.
55/25 as insurance...
ReplyDeleteWhat is the psychological profile of a teacher who complains and whines about Danielson but refuses to do something as simple as sign an online petition that hurts kids and destroys their own profession? Can't even get 1% of the total UFT workforce? I am disgusted.
ReplyDeleteHey anon 1:55-
ReplyDeleteThat weed you've been smoking is creating wild paranoid delusions.
Really? You haven’t seen exactly that thing happen?
DeleteOr, maybe I struck a nerve talking about the mercenary twenty-somethings who will do anything for some recognition and a couple of bucks.
DeleteI am paranoid as hell but I still signed the online petition.
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