In March, the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development met in Amsterdam to
discuss how the international community can better locate great teachers and
use assessments to develop a method for replicating their success. This
international summit aimed to strategize for the creation of better teachers
everywhere.
The problem: the
representatives at the summit couldn't agree on how to properly assess the
quality of teachers.
Those attending the
summit ranged from education ministers and union leaders, to policy makers and
teachers representing 25 different countries. The strict divide comes within
the debate of whether the assessments were to be used for “purposes of
professional development” or “as a mechanism of accountability.” The
representatives argued about whether the model of measuring teacher ability by
student performance (as we do here in the United States) is a valid way to
figure out whether teacher is good at their job. If there is not a standardized
method for assessing different types of student intelligence, like creativity,
confidence, and social awareness – arguably aspects of a student’s learning
process as nurtured by teachers – is it even possible to use student
performance to address a teacher’s worth?
There was discussion of “performance-based
pay” which is highly controversial. In Sweden, teachers receive a pay bump from
administrators with higher performance rates from their students. But, this
system is stymied by a Swedish “culture of egalitarianism.” The pay increases were
often divided evenly amongst coworkers.
China meanwhile is
dealing with “authoritarian treatment of teachers” where assessments are used
as a measure of productivity ending in layoffs for those teachers unable to
bring achievement above certain levels.
Finland’s approach to
education is established in their comprehensive public education system, which
includes a free university system. Teacher pay is normal, but students aren’t
saddled with debt when they graduate. Teaching is viewed as an attractive
profession where feedback trumps assessment models, and where autonomy and
competent teachers “are well educated, trusted, and very independent.”
Perhaps the key to the
larger debate is to put trust back into the system instead of attempting to
micromanage it.
Jeff Chilcott
4/4/13
8:10PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/world/europe/01iht-educside01.html?ref=internationaleducation
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