Paul, You ask a great question that to date has not been answered by the field. Much research and effort still needs to be extended to find a valid and accurate way of measuring teacher effectiveness. In many cases it seems that volume (number of pages) is the method used for measuring effort such as in your 6-10 page lesson plans. My question would be since you seem to feel that your time as been wasted in your teacher preparation classes and your MFA practicum and that educational leaders do not have a realistic understanding of how to facilitate the training of educators, what is the answer? What is the right way to grade teacher performance as you see it? Thanks for your input on this. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.