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The idea of sharing student work or what some people refer to as a portfolio, has been discussed in the field of education for the past 10-15 years. A lot of people (including me) view the sharing of work as a way to demonstrate mastery of specific skills and concepts because the work is actually the evidence of learning and understanding. Unfortunately, we have become a nation of testing (cheap way of assessing kids), so the move to adopt some type of online portfolio has been slow, but the tide is starting to turn.While there is a place for testing, portfolios provide a more effective way for students to demonstrate their competency by moving beyond basic recall to the application of learning. This step is essential to being able to assess higher order thinking skills, which is part of the new common core (national standards) and 21st century learning skills.The primary problem with electronic portfolio systems is that they are basically a digital repository of work products with no connection to the actual learning or performance task. These systems also lack the the scoring data and feedback associated with each artifact, which makes the evaluation of a portfolio appear subjective. Since most work products are defined by the performance task assigned to a student, sharing the actual task and evaluation criteria is important to making portfolios meaningful.The use of portfolios should not be limited to just K12 or higher ed learning. Being able to demonstrate one's capability is also essential to the workplace. By using portfolios in the workplace, the appraisal process will move from filling out an appraisal form to a model where work products are used to truly evaluate performance and develop employees.As portfolios become more common place, the evaluation of student work for college admissions and the hiring a new employee will become an accepted and important practice.

If someone says this to you, I would encourage you to say to them, “this is not simply a matter of my opinion, it’s a matter of my perspective.”One definition of an opinion is “a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter.” Given this and similar definitions, you could say an opinion is but one fruit of a larger reality called a perspective. One definition for perspective is “the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed.”If we see perspective as the lens in which we view the big world of worlds out there, we can evaluate how these lenses enhance certain aspects of the reality at hand, while missing perhaps the vast majority of aspects other lenses may filter. As we glean these different aspects of a certain reality through our unique lens, we craft many more things than personal appraisals or judgments. We uncover unique and distinct insights and truths. We mold principles, values, and new applications.It is crucial to listen to other perspectives and engage in dialogue and sharing. This helps lead to a mutual enhancement of perspectives and reciprocal enrichment. Interconnection from different perspectives can lead to a more comprehensive glimpse into the complex reality at hand(image)When we leave it at personal opinions, we miss such a crucial opportunity to also help one another clear our unique lenses where they might have gotten blemished or tainted in some way. Let’s do a thought experiment.Mothers Mrs. Beanbag and Mrs. Foot are walking side by side after a PTA meeting where a vigorous debate has occurred over whether or not the high school should enforce school uniforms. Mrs. Beanbag breaks the silence to start the following conversation.“Well, I guess you are entitled to your opinion that school uniforms are not necessary. Soon everyone will just be running around in their undergarments!”“Excuse me, it is a little more than my opinion that I don’t want school uniforms. This is my point of view stemming from my children’s experiences at other schools. I just find it crucial to consider letting students feel free to express themselves through their clothing choice.”“But uniforms are an equalizer. They bring order and unity. Otherwise, students might just wear anything they want.”“I see the truth and value from your point of view. But do you think it would be fair for me to say that having school uniforms will turn all of the kids into zombies or drones?”“No, I might find offense to that. I guess just keeping the informal dress code will not be so extreme of results. But my kids came from the private school where uniforms were always enforced, and everything just was more orderly.”“Well, maybe we could have the best of both worlds. Like, what if they require school uniforms half the week and informal dress codes half the week?”“But then it would just be chaos. What if students got mixed up each day of the week?”“Well, let’s see if we can debate more next week and if any compromises can be made.”What if we were to engage in discussion and dialogue from our unique perspectives more often, and allow for mutual enhancement of understandings and enrichment of points-of-views.One such example is political administrations refusing to engage in dialogue with one another. In the U.S., for instance, if the leaders of the House of Representatives, Senate, and Trump Administration had come together for a genuine dialogue in December of 2018 or the beginning of January 2019, it would have saved a long, expensive government shutdown costing hundreds of thousands of government employees their normal pay (2018–19 United States federal government shutdown - Wikipedia).

As a former employee who worked with them for 4 years, I will restrict my answer to how Endeavor Careers is as an employer.There were some really intelligent people there, under whom I got to learn a lot, but after just a year, the cracks started showing.They focus too much on their “process” and give no room to the faculty to use their own unique style. The faculty have been told to stick to a pre-designed lecture flow (to the point where we were supposed to discuss specific questions) and if we deviate, it's frowned upon, right down to it affecting our appraisal.However, these same processes are not mandated for some of their other “long-time” faculty, bringing me to my next point: favouritism.They favour those who have been in the system for a long time, irrespective of whether they are capable or not. How high you move up in the ladder is also dependent on whether you're a yes-man. These are the same faculty who are so rigid in their methods, that after a while, a lot of us stopped wanting to change things, and instead, went our own way inside the classroom, because we knew what is most beneficial for our kids and what isn't. This is why you hear of some faculty at some centres being exceptional and / or popular, whereas in others, they're barely up to scratch.The faculty are also given a lot of unnecessary and unproductive tasks like taking attendance of kids personally, sitting and calling those who are absent (even calling their parents, if necessary), making nonsensical presentations every month to gauge “student performance”, etc. This eats into the time where we could've been working on developing our own delivery, thinking of more initiatives, etc.The faculty are also shuttled around a lot, with no clearly defined shifts or overtime benefits, bringing me to my next point: their HR policies. I'm afraid there's no H in the HR at Endeavor. They're more concerned with how their employees dress than whether the employees are doing their job properly or not. I've often had days where I've had to work for 13 hours a day, with no comp-off leaves or monetary compensation provided for the additional hours. This seriously reduces productivity, as well as motivation.The appraisal system itself is also flawed, because if your supervisor is not a big fan of you, he / she will make it his / her life's mission to give you a bad rating and that leads to you getting a poor appraisal. And once that's done, no one will intervene to give you a fair deal, because guess who's the supervisor and his / her supervisor is? The favoured employee of the senior management. So I learnt to make peace with it, because I was in this profession for my students.The nail in the coffin is the management style of their CEO. Everything is micro-managed. Approvals have to be taken from the Head Office for the smallest of things and because of the “chain of command”, quick and necessary decisions get delayed for no good reason, apart from the fact that “it's the process”. This would've been all well and lovely if at least those processes made sense, but oh well.Continuing the management issues, it seems that they are in deep financial troubles as already mentioned in a previous post, which has left them not being able to make the rent at some centres, resulting in the closure of several centres. Also mentioned are the salaries of employees being delayed for months together, so I won't elaborate on that either.But what people also don't know is that for a lot of employees, current and former (me included), their TDS has still not been deposited with the Income Tax authorities. I must mention that the tax has already been deducted from the salaries of the employees. It's just that the same hasn't been deposited. A lot of us have even received notices from the Income Tax authorities stating this issue. When I raised this issue with their tax guy, they kept stalling (and still are) and keep saying that it'll be paid, but I haven't seen the same reflected in my Form 26AS yet. This is unnecessarily causing sleepless nights and now, we might get in trouble with the law for no fault of ours. I also haven't received my full and final settlement yet. It was due more than 8 months ago. And, yet again, there's no response from any employee from their accounts team, despite repeated reminders both on mails and calls.More than half their employees have left, and they're still behaving as if everything is hunky-dory. They're even recruiting new people.My advice to any potential employee is to read this post carefully and not join Endeavor Careers. They've taken everything, but haven't really given back anything. I'm just waiting for my dues to get credited and this Income Tax issue to get resolved and I'm hoping to finally put this miserable organisation behind me once and for all.