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quality teachers
Submitted by jccohen on May 11, 2015 - 13:55 Permalink
allison.hacker,
You do an insightful job of framing this paper in terms of transactional and transformation changes, and then make a strong argument for the revising the tenure system toward a more thoughtful and rigorous process. Your idea about making transactional changes that signal and in this sense might also support a deeper, transformational shift is intriguing in terms of the theory of change that this suggests.
The idea of having a team of veteran teachers assess their colleagues acknowledges teacher knowledge as well as the importance of developing collaborative collegial relationships. And I like your idea of the student role as well, and can imagine ways of scaffolding this effectively for students. On the other hand, I want to question tenure as the way to go to ensure quality teachers/teaching. This seems to me an intrinsically different system than we use to assess and reward (or not) the work of many other professions; why then is it deemed helpful in teaching?