On the August "Start a new post" Anonymous wrote:
Teacher hiring criteria intended to get best candidates
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_692945.html
Interesting article for parents and educators. A neighbor on our street applying for a teaching job in the PPS District. After completing the whole application process on line. She had to take the Gallup
TeachertInsight Assessment an online multiple-choice test designed to help select candidates for screening. She has impeccable references, student taught in the PPS and q QPA of 3.9. She completed the Gallup TeachertInsight Assessment and she did not pass the online test and has to wait for a period of a year.
Can a person explain this to a parent-why another test for selection process?
Yet, they are furloughing teachers.
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Is this "Gallop online test" the tool that PPS will be using to certify its teachers?
On anther Board tab (in Board Minutes) PPS Admin has contracted with Paula Bevan, a consultant, for an amount of $270,000 to "train" Pittsburgh teachers during the next year. She also has a major contract to do the same in Maryland Schools????
HOLY SHI@#
Gallop poll screening teachers?
What if an "unruly student" interrupts you mid test?
Second phase: (after Gallop) School districts will contract with companies just like Nascar(Race to the top). Teachers then call Nielsen to see if they have a better rating/share? The "cool teachers" will be wearing/sponsoring; Mountain Dew, Pop Tarts, Coke and McDonald's apparel. The not So cool teachers will be left with less marketable products, therefore leaving their livelihood in peril.
I started this post out as tongue and cheek, midway through I realized it actually could be our future. *note to self, keep your morals intact.
Here's the link to last October's post on this topic:
http://purereform.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-consulting-contracts.html
It would not be surprising if teachers start supporting charter schools as alternatives for themselves as well as for students!
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