New York State Teacher Evaluations Are Rigged

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4. We've been told

that no teacher is "distinguished" except for momentarily in any given area. Our admins have been trained to make sure that rating someone "distinguished" in any particular Danielson domain is very rare.

So is rating someone "basic," as a teacher has to be pretty damned weak to fit that part of the rubric. And, despite the perpetual public outcry against "bad teachers," very few are that weak. So the vast majority of teachers end up being rated "proficient" in most or all of the domains.

There's a hell of a lot of paperwork, check-lists, and teacher and admin time thrown into the process for predictable results.

Edited to add: Not NY, which is why our designations are different, even though we're using Danielson. We've got "unsatisfactory," "basic," "proficient," and "distinguished."