The personnel in-charge of hiring new teachers for the school is not a teacher himself and he/she has only a general view of the classroom situations and management is one of the problems in the educational system to hire the best teachers suited for a particular subject. Teaching along is simple because all you need us to share all those knowledge you’ve accumulated through education and experiences, but this is not all, the teachers should know exactly the classroom situations in which this is being taken for granted.
The trial demonstration of teaching in which the audience are also member of the faculty if not the personnel himself should not be the only factor to be considered for a teacher seeking for a job to be hired. Obviously, this demonstration is superficial in which it does not in any show the real classroom-teacher-student situation. This is taken for granted for every educational institution which serve as basis for a teacher to hired or not.
A student may receive failing grades, but it doesn’t and should be necessary to put the blame on the teacher. There are other factors to be considered too and there are lots of them. Hopefully, this news will somehow trigger the educational system to upgrade that obsolete manner of hiring teachers.
The test known as the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is used to assess students’ standards in each state.
The union’s Steve Ryan says Education Queensland’s regional directors and principals have told teachers to deliver improved results in the tests or face redundancy.
“I think the Department of Education should leave the job of teaching to its teachers,” he said.
“Teachers are professionals, they know what they’ve got to do in their classes and they know what it is they’ve got to do to assist their students.”
Mr Ryan says the test is not an accurate measure of student standards and should not be used to judge teachers’ performance.
“The union believes that NAPLAN tests are not necessarily a valid test,” he said.
“Unfortunately a lot of store is being placed on their value which is, in our opinion, quite unnecessarily placed.”
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/20/2497113.htm
