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Moore Public Schools Addresses Inequities Between VAM and SLO/SOO Teacher Evaluation Frameworks

Moore Public Schools Addresses Inequities Between VAM and SLO/SOO Teacher Evaluation Frameworks #oklaed #tle

  Moore Public Schools graciously produced the following video which explains the inherent inequities between the Value Added Model and Student Learning Objective teacher evaluations frameworks.

Since I teach two sections of 7th grade literature, I part of my evaluation will be based on VAM, so I do not have to put together an SLO.…

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This Is What Ticks Me Off About "Education Reform"

This Is What Ticks Me Off About "Education Reform" #oklaed #edchat

VAM is junk science and misses the point of education. We are killing altruism when we encourage service for selfish reasons.

Pardon my French.

It isn’t that corporations are destroying public education so they can have the profits for themselves.

It isn’t that we’re re-segregating our schools in the name of “choice.”

It isn’t that my value as a teacher will be determined by the whims of a group…

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What Will VAM Do To Oklahoma Educators?

What Will VAM Do? #oklaed

While Oklahoma educators have been fighting CCSS, political battles, and high stakes testing, another component of this mess is sneaking up on us.

It’s Value-Added Measures, which will make up 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation after this coming school year. According to the Oklahoma State Department of Education, VAM is:

A measure of a teacher’s contribution to student academic growth. The…

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