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Classroom teachers have OTES. SPED teachers have OTES. Principals have OPES. Where do district teacher leader positions fall in all of this? We have a district technology coach (a teacher, paid out of teacher funds), a literacy coach (same deal) and a differentiation coach (the gifted teacher now no longer looks at a single kid EVER; she spends her days looking at STAR testing and essentially harassing teachers, telling them they aren't doing a good enough job showing growth week after week after week. Meanwhile, no one with the gifted license is directly any serving kids.) When asked, our superintendent said that he is evaluating them under OPES because that is the only way that he personally can do it: he hasn't been trained to administer OTES. How is that legal? Can a person paid with teacher dollars be given the OPES evaluation? What growth scores can be used to evaluate a person who has no ties to any specific body of kids? How is it fair that when classroom teachers show growth, ...See More
india post On 3/30/14, How legal is this??? wrote: > Classroom teachers have OTES. SPED teachers have OTES. > Principals have OPES. Where do district teacher leader > positions fall in all of this? We have a district > technology coach (a teacher, paid out of teacher funds), a > literacy coach (same deal) and a differentiation coach (the > g...See More
Jun 22, 2014


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