Nothing to Hide and No Excuses: Video Evaluation to Raise Teacher Quality

[Mariathebigcat]

This makes me glad I never became a teacher even though I got my degree.

[DarkHumorist]

I want to be a teacher, but if something like this became common place, I would really reconsider 

[sugatoniik]

cant wait til animoto improves in quality

[OperationAnime262]

How can inexpreiced teachers tell teachers how to teach that's obsured.

[iamcompucomp]

Randi Weingarten, head of AFT: Conflict is the status quo in education. In Pittsburgh and in Hillsborough County, Fla., two of the places where the Gates Foundation has heavily invested, you see a culture of working together to make these changes. Newsweek 2019/12/20

Football teams do this all the time. They look at the tape after every game. Sometimes they do it during the game.

[iamcompucomp]

@iamcompucomp As you can see from the above two quotes from Weingarten in Newsweek, there is no explicit opposition to involvement of private "investment" in education or to video play by play. The question is, can public education trust corporate philanthropy? Can videos be shipped off to the appointees of a computer corporation wedded to government to determine a teacher's fate without it becoming surveillance?

[bassk1000o]

scary stuff

[jdstein1]

Wow. Scary shit.

[prezunion]

Repeat after me: If you make life worse for teachers you make life better for students. Repeat it until you believe it. It will not be true, but you will believe it.

[judaoist]

Let's put cameras in all the billionaires' & legoslatures' offices.

Good video.

[barbshoup]

One thing that corporate types forget to factor into teacher effectiveness is whether good teachers have the resources they need to teach as well as they know how to teach and want to teach. FYI: THEY DON'T. Bill Gates ought to take over a city school classroom for a year and try the very best he can to teach way too many kids with way too few resources available--and see how he feels when he's held accountable for all he could not accomplish.

[iamcompucomp]

Please check out my other video "Nothing to Hide and No Excuses: Race from this Axe". The tab is just above the video frame.

[tnstaiwan]

Having taught for about a decade, it's all too obvious to me that education can't be run on a quantified efficiency/return basis; but bureaucrats and people with business backgrounds who are entrusted to manage education will not - *cannot* - understand this. It's a travesty, especially because hot air about "making teachers accountable" and "getting tough on education" sells politically. "Making teachers accountable" strikes a chord with well-meaning but underinformed voters. Cynical, huh?

[billybobwrt]

LOL! Oh, but it IS about money, ALL about money! Why don't you think Bill Gates and company are so interested in pumping money into charter schools and all this reform gobbledygook

[MioneAlterEgo]

And those outside the teaching world wonder why American schools aren't attracting (and keeping) quality teachers? Sheesh...

[KTVeee]

I just threw up watching this. 

[songsforyou00]

will they hide the surveillance system in a pretend book like they do for babysitters and teddy bears?

[rdsathene]

Is that Ben Austin in the pink shirt?

[nolm2007]

Brave New Eduspeak. You can hear it everywhere, not just in the US. It is viral.

[smon59]

I fear for the education of my grandchildren and the future of our country if we insist on forcing teachers to teach scripts instead of responding to the needs of the real children in front of them. Teachers who constantly fear for their jobs are not going to become the best teachers! I've been teaching for 38 years - how does Bill Gates think he knows more about teaching than I do????

[jelfrank286]

My kids are in public schools... in the suburbs. Here parents are mostly happy with their public schools and unionized teachers.

All this Gates accountability crap is for poor kids. Why? Their parents are AWOL and don't know these reforms give their kids a crap education. Ed profiteers are waiting in the wings to move in and feed at the public well with their phony reforms.

[cblyeth]

Brilliant distilling of all the edubabble out there! Bravo to the maker(s) of this video!

[neilieB]

The future is anywhere else but here in Amerika. . . we are on the road to nowhere.

[Yari1066]

Okay, I'm really freakin' feeling like I'm in THX1138!

[MrSieish]

@Yari1066 lol

[ValerieTarico]

Jesus. Does anyone responding to this thing have kids in the public school system or understand anything about social science research? Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be on the left side of the political spectrum.

[sheryllinda1]

I feel guilty to be in the business of teacher preparation these days,,,,it is like setting up lambs for the slaughter or putting slaves on the slaveship back when. We are on a path to self-destruction in public education. Pathetic. Look who is now the Supt. of NYC schools! A 66 year -old newspaper publisher with ZERO credentials in Education.

[DeathnoteBB]

"While we all wait for Superman to come along for our children and for the economy"

And they tell us to get our head out of the clouds... There is no Superman, it's up to us to provide actual education to our kids, not give them papers and worksheets and ignore the negative effects by saying "It's better than nothing."

[tomworld9]

In the infamous words of john snobelon "there is a crisis in education in the province of Ontario" and if we get the right people "on it" it soon will be profitable!

Well done!

[mm72873]

Great lines!!"Only a panel of experts with no teaching experience can give you evidence-based evaluation and recommend best practices"

"Only billionaires are sufficiently disinterested to provide fair and impartial leadership of education reform"

[bowerjj]

Educators who are knee deep in the politics of school will know how deeply disturbingly true this video is.

[UncleBilly3000]

It is part of the larger attack on teachers and unions through high stakes testing, constant assessment, data-driven decision making, performance pay, removal of tenure and seniority, accelerated dismissal and mass firings, student based evaluations, parent councils, professional development and "learning communities' aimed at test score improvement. Teachers have little authority left and that is killing the public school system, so business can come to the rescue.

[ofcourse4u]

Brilliant

Turns the rhetoric on its head

[MrNeaguy]

Superb!

[cpharbor]

Great video! As Previsionist said, the truth is powerful!

[dorainseattle]

And what about the right to privacy for the students in the classes that are filmed? Has Big Brother Bill thought about that yet?

[Previsionist]

Awesome video. The truth is powerful.

[clanky]

This is logically convoluted and paranoid at a level previously reserved for tea partiers. It's also painfully unfunny. Fail.

[savetheschools]

Alfie is wrong. Satire is not impossible. Great work.

[rdarrah]

I would say brilliant work but that would make me a fire hose operator in "the civil rights issue of our age" and a "supporter of

the status quo."

[skrashen]

to iamcompucomp GREAT work, thank you. I hope this goes viral. I will do my part.

[adnelson]

Coming to schoolhouse near you. Weep, Americans, Weep for the future our once-proud nation.

[jeanieinnc]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry...