Steven Patrick Noone

A 4th / 5th split teacher at Glen Alta Elementary in 2009

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, Noone ranked:

Less effective than average overall.
Less effective than average in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 4 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Least effective in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 7 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Noone's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Glen Alta Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Steven Noone's Response:

My classes have mainly been ELD, low academic, and behavior problem students, with some grade level students. Generally the high achievers, gifted, and grade level students have been placed in the other class. Administrators have continually thrown behavior plagued students into my class - some years as many as 5 or 6. Many students are transferred at different times in the year because other teachers’ inability to control them, or because the students caused too many problems for them. They test in my class even though they have been there for a partial year. Over the years I have received dozens of students transferred into my class because of behavior problems in another class; I’ve never transferred any student for any reason out of my class. A classroom full of ELD, low academic, and behavior problems offers few role models. In addition, I teach the whole curriculum following district policy - not just teaching to the test or prompting to the test. That includes ELD, language arts, science, social studies, p.e., health, math, and art. Also, there is currently no incentive for the students to perform well on the state tests. Many of the students put little effort into the test.

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