re: Texas Governor wants top teachers to earn six figures

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Not sure about 6 figures but they are underpaid

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not really, a lot of shite teachers out there

Meanwhile, in mayor dooms' Baton Rouge,

"We have to many white teachers"

Need to redefine how teachers are evaluated. There are some systems already in place. But seniority and education level are definitely not what should be used

I’d say any teacher evaluation should include some type of evaluation of children’s behavior in their classroom. Better teachers have an organized classroom with minimum disruption from students. Leads to a better learning environment

$100k to work part time. Must be nice.

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You seem to be under the impression that teachers are only working when students are there.

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The ones who are organized do almost no work outside of school.

One of my closest friends is a middle school teacher in Georgia and he says his job is easier than he could have ever imagined. He gets all of his lesson plans and papers graded during his planning periods AT SCHOOL. He says most of the female teachers sit around and talk about their sick mothers, their husbands, their own children, etc and have tons of work left to do at the end of the day.

Teaching, if you have a natural gift, is incredibly easy.

According to my friend - If you show you care, the kids respect you and dont give you behavior problems. The pay and the hours are easy and there is almost no stress at all.

Now, I am certain that female teachers would have a different take on it. We all know why, but that is a different topic all together.

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Well how about this, You grade teachers based on the students performance from the year before.

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Dallas has this teacher merit system and it is the one Abbot will model the state system on. It doesn't work in Dallas though. There are too many variables in "grading" a teacher. Sure, test scores from the year before is one way to do it. But in a big, urban district like Dallas, many kids are at a different school from year to year. And most the kids are from very poor families and have huge family problems at home that they then bring to school on test day. How can a teacher be held responsible for this? Also, there are many "special education" kids in regular classes now including kids on the spectrum and full blown autistic kids. And yet these SPED kids are counted in the teacher's test scores. And in reality, teachers in Dallas are "observed" by supervisors once a year for about 15 minutes. How would you like it if your job review was based on such a small sample? Also, much of the merit based raises are based on getting advanced degrees. Having an advanced degree is great but doesn't automatically make you a better teacher. In the end, Dallas doesn't have enough money to give raises to all the teachers that have qualified so no way the state will have that kind of money. Dallas is proposing to raise my property taxes about $500 per year to pay for additional merit raises. This is on top of the astronomical rise in property values in Dallas which has given Dallas about 20% more tax dollars to work with already.

Texas high school AD's and football coaches already make that, and more.

It is a $100K job. Balk at the summer hours, and holidays, all you want. They have to put up with your shitty kids everyday, and try to get them to focus, not you. Then, go home and answer emails from OT Ballers who think they can buy their kids grades, and criticize discipline, because their kids are spoiled frick ups. Each night is spent preparing for the next day, so the hours are really 7:30-9:00, and many hours on the weekends.

I have encouraged my wife to seek another career, multiple times, but the longer they teach, the more pigeon-holed they get. Other career options are limited. At the end of the day, she loves the impact that she has on them. Seeing kids grow, and greet her with a smile 10 years later.

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Each night is spent preparing for the next day, so the hours are really 7:30-9:00, and many hours on the weekends.

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I just don't buy this. As a teacher with 10+ years of experience at every level except elementary, I have never felt the need to work THAT much.

I do think great teachers are worth $100k in some cases but mostly not. We're compensated well. We're treated like shite sometimes, but many jobs are. How you're treated doesn't equal a pay raise.

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Dallas has this teacher merit system and it is the one Abbot will model the state system on. It doesn't work in Dallas though. There are too many variables in "grading" a teacher. Sure, test scores from the year before is one way to do it. But in a big, urban district like Dallas, many kids are at a different school from year to year. And most the kids are from very poor families and have huge family problems at home that they then bring to school on test day. How can a teacher be held responsible for this? Also, there are many "special education" kids in regular classes now including kids on the spectrum and full blown autistic kids. And yet these SPED kids are counted in the teacher's test scores. And in reality, teachers in Dallas are "observed" by supervisors once a year for about 15 minutes. How would you like it if your job review was based on such a small sample? Also, much of the merit based raises are based on getting advanced degrees. Having an advanced degree is great but doesn't automatically make you a better teacher. In the end, Dallas doesn't have enough money to give raises to all the teachers that have qualified so no way the state will have that kind of money. Dallas is proposing to raise my property taxes about $500 per year to pay for additional merit raises. This is on top of the astronomical rise in property values in Dallas which has given Dallas about 20% more tax dollars to work with already.

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Not a statsitics major I see. Sure you will have outliers that had to move from one school to another, or kids at home that have a worse home life than last year, and conversely there will be kids who have a better home life than the year before. So if you have a total population of 157,000 students and if you did a 5 year average you would have a margin of error of +-4% with a 95% confidence. once you throw out the outliers the top and bottom ten percent you would be way more accurate. Meaning that those errors correct themselves.
if you have a class of 30 you throw out the top 3 biggest jumps and the bottom 3 biggest losses that way you even further account for errors.