Download or read book The Tactful Teacher written by Yvonne Bender and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By equipping teachers with the tools they need to communicate effectively with colleagues, parents, and administrators, this handbook prepares them to deal successfully with and understand the dynamics of a variety of work-related situations. Especially helpful for those new to the field, this guide teaches the skills to build effective communication, tailor messages to fit their recipients, and interact with difficult people and under pressure. Using specific scenarios, such as dealing with angry parents, sharing unpleasant information, or communicating in less-than-ideal school environments, different communication strategies, and why they work, are discussed in detail. Advice is also given on handling "The Social Addiction Trap" and those tricky "what's your opinion" questions with grace and aplomb.
Download or read book Tactful Teacher Evaluations written by William C. Carey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Trust in Teacher Evaluations written by Shelly M. Arneson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your breakthrough approach to top-notch teacher evaluations! This hands-on professional development guide provides concrete, proactive teacher evaluation strategies to help school leaders: Create and sustain a supportive, honest, and collaborative school culture Foster effective communication and build teacher-principal trust Conduct evidence-based teacher observations and evaluations Hold effective follow-up conversations that nurture teacher growth Promote teacher self-assessment and reflection Includes absorbing real world vignettes, reflection questions, and ample modeling examples for quick success. You’ll find quick nuggets of wisdom you can reference again and again. Use this informative guide to transform the teacher evaluation process today!
Download or read book A Guide to Impactful Teacher Evaluations written by Joseph O. Rodgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if everything we thought we knew about effective teacher evaluations was wrong? A Guide to Impactful Teacher Evaluations walks educators through an important shift in thinking about how to evaluate teachers: from systems focused on individuals and results to solutions focused on collectives and processes. Disregarding older, ineffective models that rely on faulty assumptions, this book embraces new approaches for measuring teacher competency that achieve valid assessment of effective teaching, teacher professional growth, and student learning. Chapters explore teacher evaluation systems based on professional learning community principles, confront the current system of teacher evaluation that has led to frustration, criticism, and disrespect, provide strategies for delivering new skills and supporting teachers’ growth, and include "Tips and Talking Points" for schools and districts. Outlining best practice and sharing actionable tools grounded in collaboration and teamwork, this book helps K-12 school leaders explore teacher evaluation that has a real and lasting impact on the profession and student learning.
Download or read book Teacher and Student Evaluation written by Alyson Leah Lavigne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes achievement test scores. In six concise chapters, Teacher and Student Evaluation explores the historical rise and modern landscape of accountability in American education, and the current models of teacher evaluation. The authors provide realistic and useful suggestions for responding to current accountability demands. The authors explore the methodological concerns and policy implications of using value-added and observational measures to make high-stakes decisions. After reaching the conclusion that these contemporary evaluation practices are flawed, Alyson Lavigne and Thomas Good offer possible solutions that inform current and future teacher evaluation. This book is a valuable resource for students of educational assessment as well as policy makers, administrators, and teachers who are currently building accountability plans. The book is written in an accessible but authoritative fashion that practitioners, policymakers, and scholars will find useful.
Download or read book Everyone at the Table written by Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven method for working with teachers to design better evaluations There is no magic formula for successfully designing a teacher evaluation system. However there is abundant evidence that suggests involving teachers in the process will reduce the likelihood of opposition, gridlock, and reform failure. Everyone at the Table provides materials to genuinely engage teachers in the evaluation process. The book is a research-based and field-tested practical guide for school leaders. With this resource, educators will have the tools they need to develop meaningful teacher evaluations. Offers a collaborative approach to designing teacher evaluations Includes a companion web-based resource, with video This research-based program outlines a solid plan for improving teacher effectiveness through evaluation reform.
Download or read book Handbook on Teacher Evaluation with CD ROM written by James Stronge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-use, authoritative, and flexible, the tools in this book and CD-ROM have been developed over the last 15 years and have been field tested in over 500 schools. These tools will empower you to do your evaluations based on current thinking and best practices.
Download or read book Effective Teacher Evaluations written by and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you fairly evaluate your teachers' day-to-day teaching style a nd classroom management on the basis of sporadic classroom visits? How can stress be alleviated for both the principal and teachers? Effecti ve Teacher Evaluations is a must-have reference for all principals. It is a 192-page how-to handbook that helps reduce tension at evaluation s, and provides better methods for assessing performance. This easy-to -read guide supplies models and suggests creative ways to constructive ly criticize. Plus, it discusses legalities that will protect you and your school from potential lawsuits.
Download or read book Writing Meaningful Teacher Evaluations Right Now written by Cornelius L. Barker and published by Corwin. This book was released on 1999-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a quick, easy, and effective guide to the task of staff evaluation. With the CD-ROM, evaluation will become easier and faster without compromising the results. CD-ROM is PC compatible. CD-ROM is not sold separately.
Download or read book Generating Tact and Flow for Effective Teaching and Learning written by Susanna M. Steeg Thornhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws from and analyzes teachers’ and students’ stories of great classes in order to promote teachers’ development of pedagogical tact and to encourage flow states for students. Taken together, these theoretical lenses—pedagogical tact and flow—provide a valuable framework for understanding and motivating classroom engagement. As the authors suggest, tactful teachers are more likely to see their students in flow than teachers who struggle with basic classroom routines and practices. Grounded in narrative research, and written for pre-service teachers, the book offers strategies for replicating these first-hand accounts of peak classroom teaching and learning.
Download or read book Teacher Evaluation written by Anthony J. Shinkfield and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Professional Practice is organized around four dominant, interrelated core issues: professional standards, a guide to applying the Joint Committee's Standards, ten alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, and an analysis of these selected models. The book draws heavily on research and development conducted by the Federally funded national Center for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE). The reader will come to grasp the essence of sound teacher evaluation and will be able to apply its principles, facts, ideas, processes, and procedures. Finally, the book invites and assists school professionals and other readers to examine the latest developments in teacher evaluation.
Download or read book Teacher Evaluation written by Andrew Gitlin and published by . This book was released on 1989-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Evaluation that Makes a Difference written by Robert J. Marzano and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Teacher Evaluation That Makes a Difference, Robert J. Marzano and Michael D. Toth introduce a new model of teacher evaluation that takes into account multiple data-rich measures of teacher performance and student growth to ensure fair, meaningful, and reliable evaluations for all teachers.
Download or read book Getting Teacher Evaluation Right written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher evaluation systems are being overhauled by states and districts across the United States. And, while intentions are admirable, the result for many new systems is that goodoften excellentteachers are lost in the process. In the end, students are the losers. In her new book, Linda Darling-Hammond makes a compelling case for a research-based approach to teacher evaluation that supports collaborative models of teacher planning and learning. She outlines the most current research informing evaluation of teaching practice that incorporates evidence of what teachers do and what their students learn. In addition, she examines the harmful consequences of using any single student test as a basis for evaluating individual teachers. Finally, Darling-Hammond offers a vision of teacher evaluation as part of a teaching and learning system that supports continuous improvement, both for individual teachers and for the profession as a whole.
Download or read book Score to Soar written by John F. Eller and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.
Download or read book Teacher Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Teacher Evaluation Handbook written by Renfro C. Manning and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1988-06-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on guide featuring practical advice on administrating a peer observer system, training evaluators, conferencing and setting performance targets, and more.
