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Why I’m Afraid The Gates Foundation Might Be Minimizing Great Tools For Helping Teachers Improve Their Craft

Ohanian Comment: And the moral is: If there's a wrong way to do things, Gates will find it, ignoring the helpful way teachers have already discovered.

This is excerpted from a longer blog.

by Larry Ferlazzo

. . .Gates is funding a massive effort to videotape teacher lessons and then have them evaluated by people who have never visited the school nor have any kind of relationship with the teacher, and rate them using checklists and correlate them to value-added scores.

Contrast that way with how videotape is being used to universal acclaim at our school (led by principal Ted Appel) where a talented consultant (Kelly Young at Pebble Creek Labs), who has been working with us for years, meets with us to review an edited version of a taped lesson, with us initially giving our own critique and reflections followed by his comments. This process is entirely outside of the official evaluation process, and is focused on helping teachers improve their craft. It has been one of the most significant professional development experiences I’ve had. . . .

— Larry Ferlazzo
blog
2010-12-12
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/12/12/why-im-afraid-the-gates-foundation-might-be-minimizing-great-tools-for-helping-teachers-improve-their-cra

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