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Where are the best in class teachers? Are they hiding among the teachers in general? If they can't be identified, there is no effective & material differentiat
by platz 10y ago
Where are the best in class teachers?
Are they hiding among the teachers in general? If they can't be identified, there is no effective & material differentiation (read: no justification for higher compensation) among them vs the less skilled.
Are you saying that the best teachers, in principle, could be measured, but we haven't developed the methods to do so (to be sure, a real possibility)? Or are they simply 'better' a-priori/intrinsically regardless if we can measure it or not?
The best in class athletes to best in class teachers comparison either fails or finds athletes winning flat out.
- quantumhobbit 10y agoI'm saying that it is harder to measure and that the measurement is inherently noisier for teachers. We measure teachers by how their students perform on standardized tests, which has all sorts of problems. The more important factor is the value placed on differential performance. A 10% difference in teacher performance is lost in the noise. It likely wouldn't mean more money even if it could be measured easily. Whereas a 10% difference in football might mean being #1 in the draft versus going undrafted.
- drostie 10y agoProbably the most substantial difference is iteration. A footballer gets many games per year with many moments per game to potentially shine or fail publicly, with stats that can be evaluated year after year. Your success as a teacher can somewhat be evaluated via testing, but that seldom tracks something close to what you're really supposed to be doing: making a difference in your kids' lives. At best that's an evaluation that has to be made by the now-grown child themselves, several years after the interactions which occurred.
- eanzenberg 10y agoPrivate schools, international schools (if multi-lingual), private tutoring.