Author: Geoffrey Moon (page 2 of 2)

Call for Nominations for Award

Dear NMAG Members:

Please consider nominating someone you know who is doing an outstanding job advocating for gifted students, serving as an administrator benefiting gifted students or an outstanding teacher of gifted students. We would like to recognize these people at our Annual Meeting on October 17. These recipients will receive a framed certificate and a lifetime membership in the New Mexico Association for the Gifted.

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Letter from the President: Teacher Evaluations

Many of my friends are teachers.  In New Mexico, we’ve all received our annual performance reviews, based on observations of the Danielson teaching characteristics, classroom surveys, and in some cases, value added modeling of test results or “VAM” scores.  Some were given their evaluations just days ago, in the final hours of the school year.

Talk of those evaluations has dominated end-of-year parties, walks, and phone conversations, because most of my friends are either disheartened by the results and/or disillusioned about the validity of the whole system.

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