http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05FOB-wwln-t.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
The start of the school year brings another one of those nagging, often unquenchable worries of parenthood: How good will my child’s teachers be? Teachers tend to have word-of-mouth reputations, of course. But it is hard to know how well those reputations match up with a teacher’s actual abilities. Schools generally do not allow parents to see any part of a teacher’s past evaluations, for instance. And there is nothing resembling a rigorous, Consumer Reports-like analysis of schools, let alone of individual teachers. For the most part, parents just have to hope for the best.
The start of the school year brings another one of those nagging, often unquenchable worries of parenthood: How good will my child’s teachers be? Teachers tend to have word-of-mouth reputations, of course. But it is hard to know how well those reputations match up with a teacher’s actual abilities. Schools generally do not allow parents to see any part of a teacher’s past evaluations, for instance. And there is nothing resembling a rigorous, Consumer Reports-like analysis of schools, let alone of individual teachers. For the most part, parents just have to hope for the best. ......
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Word-of-mouth is usually pretty accurate. A yeller is a yeller. Ratemyteacher.com has feedback also.
ReplyDeleteIf word of mouth had any impact on our school then there would of been several teachers let go by now. We know who the bad teachers are but there is not one thing that we can do about it
ReplyDeletewho are the teachers to avaoid in the district for elementary and middle school students
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