As another school year is coming to a close, the summer is nearing and so is summer school! This can be crucial time for both students and teachers. For students, it's a time to get ahead in their coursework or to catch up with credit retrieval. For teachers, it's time to be evaluated and careful chosen because of the budget constraints many districts are facing in these harsh economic times. With many districts, teachers are hand picked using the value added system. These days, there seem to be added pressure for students to perform well especially during the summer days where many students experience summer learning loss. A major factor to keep from having students lose what they've learned over the past year is the effectiveness of the teacher.
When it comes to hiring great teachers to facilitate summer school sessions, I feel that there is no easy method of evaluating their performance because no matter which form one uses, the basis of interpretation can be subjective. In order to have a system that is non bias and much more fair, systems based on bringing in outside opinions that hold no stake in the betterment of one candidate over another might be a much more fair way of going about hiring. For example, in sports such as basketball, referees are hired from outside of a district and even sometimes the state to do the officiating because they are less likely to favor one team over the other and make calls more fairly.
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