Annotated Bibliography

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My research proposal and annotated bibliography is about how teachers are evaluated in the school system. There are many ways teachers are viewed by people in today’s society. Some states are a little more traditional than others and takes the administration in class evaluation. Yes, it’s a teacher’s job to teach students the curriculum presented to them by the board of education and it’s their job to make sure learn and know the information the knowledge because that’s what they are there for, but every student isn’t the same. One thing you have to take into account is the neighborhood the students are growing up in. This can affect students because some grow up in rough places, and don’t have many role models or somebody to ask for help when …show more content…

Others include the students’ background, racial segregation, and in some cases the class size. Corruption hurts this way because some teachers get bonuses from test scores, some teachers’ scores go up and down from year to year, and the most important is teachers leaving behind the students who were further behind in class to focus on the students were on the borderline to being proficient. When a certain type of weight is being placed on a performance it should always have some type of flexibility and not be strict on a certain portion. Most states are about the same when it comes to how teachers are looked at, and that is how good students perform on standardized test. The method of test scores determining teachers job security should be rectified because of the corruption and perception it makes towards …show more content…

The big reason behind teachers being so pressured to turn every student into geniuses is because what other countries are doing compared to the United States. Out of seventy-one countries the U.S. ranked number thirty-eight in math and twenty-fourth in science. When it doesn’t go in their favor the Federal Education Department looks somewhere to point the fingers and who better to blame than the teachers. Why use the students and their test scores to do judge them though? Studies have proven that test score use is an insuffcient measurement because it wasn’t fair to use a score for a single point in time. This does nothing, but helps teachers get fired for all the wrong

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