I’ve worked as an assistant teacher in special ed. My question is this- why can’t the office assistants handle this? Let the teachers teach, let the administrators administrate.
Let the students enter the data. There’s more of them and the system is built for them, right?
Having read the article I found this info at the bottom. It pretty much locks the Teacher into being the one who has to enter the information on each student:
What is Eduphoria?
Eduphoria is an online software ECISD uses district-wide. The program allows teachers to input student exams into the program and it identifies exactly which strategies the student is struggling with. It also has a lesson plan component where ECISD teachers must enter their lessons, explain which state assessment is taught and how the teacher would alter any given lesson if something goes wrong.
What is CSCOPE?
CSCOPE is a web-based lesson plan software program. It provides the time sequence needed for teachers on when to teach lessons as required by the state standards and how long to spend on each lesson. The lessons provide units, exams and projects for teachers of every grade level. The district currently uses CSCOPE only for mathematics and science.
Additionally, I particularly liked this bit of gobbledygook (Administrator Quinitela's) response to the Teacher's complaint:
"Quinitela said the school was redefining its path and focus through new programs he believed in and the district was doing nothing wrong with its expectations."
I suspect that if you follow the money, you will find that there were some significant greasing of palms when the Organization/Company that sold this software to the Texas School System promised that it would (using flowery PHD level words): "maximize learning, minimize effort, empower students, teachers and parents, illuminate shortfalls in the existing learning process, yadda, yadda, yadda."
I also suspect that the administrators/local experts on the new software systems attended minimalist indoctrination/introduction classes, and can't answer/resolve the questions/needs of the Teachers saddled with this new White Elephant, resulting in lots of "Administrator gobbledygook talk masking their lack of knowledge (and lack of real interest).
Unfortunately, I saw such situations too many times while working for the Federal Government.
Probably time for some quality teachers to start up some small private shools (the modern equivalent of Texas prarieschools of olden times). With the low cost technology available today I suspect it would be amazing what would happen (think small business homeschool approaches).