Friday, February 26, 2021

TEACHER EVALUATION AGREEMENT


37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, with friends like these...

Anonymous said...

They always have your best interest in mind.....

TJL said...

Well I admit I set the bar rather low after years of "agreements" and contracts but I don't think this is nearly as bad as people feared.

The only thing I don't like is the citywide MOSL but without (mandated) Regents that would be hard to pull off anyway. Yes it's stupid to include MOSL when you can't give a test (particularly remote teachers) but the State law requires it.

Anonymous said...

Depending on which poll you read either 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 Americans have said they will not get the vaccine. I’m one of them. Once I heard MSNBC say Trump was rushing the science on the vaccine and Kamala say she didn’t trust it, I made up my mind. No way.

Just an Endangered CL said...

Just writing a sincere THANK YOU here to Solidarity for trying to stop this stupidity.

Thank you Solidarity.

As for the rest...

To my besties Amy, Mike, and now Mary - you're all so great! You really have our backs (w/knife in them) all the time. During the worst year in the history of our lives, you care so much about evaluations. Thank you.

Being told by a non-teaching imbecile that I'm not getting a check-mark in a box on some sheet by other non-teaching imbeciles means the world to me. I'll be a much better teacher thanks to this evaluation system - provided I survive reopening schools and unchecked COVID spread that is.

Just an Endangered CL said...

Another executive order. It'd be democratic if these agreements needed to be ratified by the membership (or even the UNITY controlled DA's).

Anonymous said...

Ela, math and science regents will be administered.

Anonymous said...

FOR ONNCE MULGOON DID SOMETHING RIGHT!!! In my opinion, the best part of this observation system is that we have the choice to send our admin a video of our lesson. This means no "gotcha" for those who choose this method. I am really hoping that this video option will continue into the future. (Since the "new normal" is to keep social distancing whenever possible, this is an awesome way to achieve this)

Shelley said...

There is nothing about remote teaching or evaluations? The agreement, unless I am misreading it, says nothing about remote teaching or remote evaluations. Am I right?

Anonymous said...

Where's Carranza going?$$$

Anonymous said...

this evaluation system is for both remote and in person. All for one!

TeachNY said...

Is this that bad? I don’t think so.

TeachNY said...

This is for ALL teachers. Because of the wording “what the teacher does,” it can include all aspects of live teaching on the computer. You have to rate teachers under the same rubric or it’s not equitable.

Shelley said...

One evaluation system for all, but why doesn't the agreement say anything about the fact that teachers are teaching, students are learning online?

How does the UFT sign an agreement that fails to include the context of instruction and evaluation?

Anonymous said...

Endangered CL.. agreed. we need democracy in our union.

Justin said...

Shelley. I was wondering the same thing.

TeachNY said...

My chapter leader says it’s for all of us. Home and people that are in buildings. Everyone gets the informal and they’re pretty much rating us on how we run the lesson.

Anonymous said...

Look...the way I see it is if you already had a decent walk through,you are good.no more observations this year.isnt this what we want?why are folks upset?

Anonymous said...

because they are being evaluated during a time in which no one has any clue what it means to be effective during online instruction? That's my guess anyway hahaha

Anonymous said...

The drivers ed instructor with no license is evaluating you and gets to decide if you get a driver's license or not.

TeachNY said...

Choose the “record a video of your lesson” option. Would
Be nice if we could pick formal. It’s a pain, but it’s not the city’s fault this time. Fault is with the state.

Anonymous said...

If there's one thing COVID has accomplished, it has exposed the teacher's union for what hard working Americans always knew it was: A SCAM.

The Teacher's Unions are the most un-American group of people in the entire country.

Shelley said...

The state, Cuomo is not the problem here. Yes, the state, Cuomo should have waived evaluations this school year, but our union knew that was a battle lost and it has been in negotiations for months, has been involved in the training and planning of this for months, and yet our union failed, again, to negotiate an evaluation agreement that protects or respects the workers.
Mulgrew was planning and negotiating the evaluation agreement for months. When a resolution to stop virtual, remote Danielson was introduces at the DA, Unity defeated it.
Teaching evaluation is being increasingly used and abused in schools.
While, as I’ve written here previously, there is too much irrational fear of observations, and this weakens us as workers, there is abuse of observations and evaluations by administrators. It is rare (less than 50 teachers each year) that this abuse, the so-called weaponized-Danielson is pushed to a hearing and results in a dismissal for incompetence.
However, the abuse is pervasive in buildings and not only in schools with tyrannical or mad and vindictive administrators. Abuse is ubiquitous in its less acute yet more insidious and damaging form. It is used to weaken teachers, individually and collectively, to force them to bend to pedagogical practices they know are not “best practices” or even possible were they sound and fitting to the educational context and objective.
Furthermore, administrators routinely abuse the observations and evaluation system to coerce teachers to do work without pay. Observations and evaluations are leverage abused by administrators to “increase teacher capacity.”
In our union many chapter leaders are supporting this abuse.
While we can’t win the battle against the state, so we will be observed and evaluated, we can win the battle within our union to stop or at least slow down the attrition of our powers by advocating teacher-led evaluations. We need to take the evaluations out of the hands of administrators.
This pandemic crisis created many opportunities for change. Our union should have stood by the workers and demanded that the teachers, the only people who have enough experience with virtual and remote teaching and learning, conduct observations and evaluations. This could have been a shift in power that would prevent abuse by administrators and strengthen the union and solidarity.

Anonymous said...

I really hope a ton of teachers choose the video choice for observations so this can stay with us in the next contract.

Anonymous said...

2/26 11:23--
The most un_American? Please explain.
At the risk of hyperbole, I would opine that designation cuurently belongs to the traitors who stormed the Capitol carrying Confederate flags, or even those who used the American flag as a weapon, in an effort to undermine a Constitutional election and perhaps even murder the Vice-President.
Regards.

Anonymous said...

Does your administration email you at inopportune times?

Read this article:

www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable

Anonymous said...

10:33 I much prefer to concern myself with traitors who tend to wear all black and chant “defund the police” as they burn, loot and riot the homes and businesses of everyday citizens they also assault but you stick with worrying about the traitors who may have tried to kill useless politicians. I care so little for DC politicians I didn’t bother to fact check your claim. I’m NOT 11:23 btw.

Unknown said...

Ran a failing school. Spent taxpayer money to throw herself a lavish party. She is perfect for the job

Anonymous said...

4:11
I agree with you about and abhor the violence you describe as well, but I'm surprised an attack on our country's leadership and the desecration of our American instiutions does not upset you because of your feelings toward the members of Congress. Hopefully we also agree that calling a teachers' union the most un-American is shortsighted.
I apologize to all for going off-topic but I couldn't let the union comment stand without reply.
Regards.
-- 10:33

Anonymous said...

520. On general principal I agree with you regarding desecration etc.... but my contempt for DC politicians is so deep I honestly don’t care if they get torn to pieces. I’ wouldn’t encourage it but if I witnessed it, Id walk away and go about my day not giving DC politicians a second thought. What I expect is that anyone who goes on a violent rampage should suffer serious consequences but since the democrats turned a blind eye to summer violence, Harris even bailing them out, they got what they deserved on January 6th. Lunatics on both sides. Once the first punch is thrown, the initial aggressors shouldn’t bitch when the violence comes for them.

Unknown said...

10:57 RIGHT ON!THE JERKS IN ALBANY CAN DISH IT OUT BUT THEY CAN'T TAKE IT.I WISH THEY HAD GOTTEN THEIR HANDS ON THAT DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDREL PELOSI. IT IS SO AWFUL TO LOOK AT HER PICTURE.SHE JUST WANTS TRUMP'S HEAD ON A FLAGPOLE NO MATTER WHAT.I WISH THEY PUT HER OUT OF BUSINESS!that is a very polite way of expressing my sentiments.wish she had been on a nyc street during the riots.while I never advocate violence,I can see how so many were just fed up to the max. No how about punishing mulgrew?

Anonymous said...

I teach at a High School in Flushing, Queens. We had our Union Meeting today and we were informed that our Principal refuses to count any prior observations or walk-throughs as our observation for the year. Many teachers expressed wanting to use prior observations or walk-throughs from this year to count for their observations, yet he refuses to be flexible and accommodate. We are disappointed by an administration that refuses to accept "a job well done" and place undue stress and pressure on the teachers. Why bother observing if it will never count and your hard work in not recognized? I thought observations were to help you grow as an educator. It seems as of he wants to see us fail instead of acknowledging prior achievement. I will make sure I hold every student accountable and give them the grade they deserve. Not a 65 for attending class once. His letter that stated "understanding our students' situations," does not apply to understanding teachers' situations.

Also, How can we have initial planning conferences without having a finalized rubric.

Anonymous said...

6:00 Sounds like a classic gotcha principal. Also it could be he/she wants to give out ineffectives so it takes the blame off him/her when the graduation rate and credit accumulation drops. You can't have that and have 100 percent of teachers effective. Your union rep should be more vocal. Your principal sounds like a real prick.

Anonymous said...

To: March 01, 2021 6:00:00 PM

I am so sorry you have a principal that is not willing to work with his staff. I also teach in a Queens High school. Our principal could not be more understanding and is offering his staff the option to receive an observation or to use a prior observation from earlier in the year. Our AP's are also allowing us to choose a date if we choose to be observed. I question his motivation for creating more work for your school's Assistant Principals and stress for his teachers.

Anonymous said...

What are all these comments regarding "providing a video to your admin" instead of an unannounced visit .

i.e. Socially distant

I don't see any mention ( except on this board) of any option or even slight possibility
where we can choose the lesson we want to record and send to A.P.


AM I MISSSING SOMETHING ??????????

Anonymous said...

I should see more people upset with the board of regents who has the real power and makes the real calls. They are a bunch of elitists who sits up north and know nothing about inner-city schools or have no real educational experience to speak of. The NYS CTE board has little to no real cte experience unless you count 3-5 years as any real experience.

nerd said...

What exactly is an fair, ethical and honest AP going to be looking for? I would think` "ineffective" would be easy to challenge but then again, we're in the UFT.

Only teachers get beat up like this.