NC Teacher: “I Quit”

[LWolf]

15. Education is riddled with acronyms.

PLC = Professional Learning Community, a label designed to make the things teachers have to do in their PLCs seem more palatable.

It doesn't work.

After decades telling people that we need collaboration, we've got it, but not the way we hoped. We've also got mandates about what we collaborate about. Test scores. We get to look at pretty, colorful graphs and pie charts, lists of standards, and talk about what we're going to do to improve "achievement." We get "development" on how to teach to the test.

We also spend time on the new teacher evaluation rubrics, watching video demonstrations and listening to examples of "proficient" and "distinguished" teaching. And we get "development" on how to write "smart" goals for our evaluations.