A Different Way to Look At It

As news of the National Education Association’s decision to allow their members’ job performance to be assessed at least in part by their students’ performance, I felt an old internal battle once again begin to rage in my mind. There is a basic logic to the idea that a person’s job performance should be judged by its outcome. However as a former classroom teacher, I know all too well just how different some key aspects of teaching are from just about every other job.

Then it hit me – an analogy that allowed me to understand it in a whole new light.

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