WY - Big Brother at Wyoming schools? Legislature considers filming teachers.
Teachers in Wyoming might someday have to add an extra step to their lesson plans: Smile for the camera.
State lawmakers have proposed installing video cameras and taping lessons to help evaluate teachers’ performance.
The occasional videotaped class has long been a tool for training and self-reflection. But the notion of tying recorded lessons to high-stakes evaluations raises a host of thorny issues.
Schools would have to consider who would be evaluating the taped lessons, what criteria they’d use, and how student and teacher privacy would be respected.
If such details can be ironed out, videos
could lead to more-nuanced evaluations, says Elena Silva, a senior
policy analyst at Education Sector in Washington. “There’s a lot of
consternation [among teachers] about using just test scores [by students to judge them].... This is
a way of bringing the human element into teacher evaluation,” she says.
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Actually a real time web cam is best in the long term, where the taxpayers and parents can listen to what is being taught as well as verify the well being of their children. We can do it for the toddlers; its also good for the older students. A recording should also be made and kept for time n the event there are any issues of violence etc.
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You need to read 1984. BTW, you have no voice as to what your kids are being taught.That's being decided at the federal level. Your kids are being taught to do what they're told, think and act as a group and above all, worship the state.
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Ower freedom is more important than your good idea. If a class needs watching do it the old fashined way and get off your duff and go sit in for awile. Besides it will be a cold day in hell when you will watch my daughter on some screan you sick spinles freaks.
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Swell. I'm sure this will make the kids safer too. I guess this is to make sure they understand The Karl Marx Program better. All for one and one for all. No wonder our kids are dumb as a rock
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