In my experience, both teachers and administrators believe that the teacher evaluation system in their district is not ideal. As a teacher, the evaluation process varied from being told what my goals and objectives would be for the year to writing my own annual goals and objectives that are never revisited throughout the school year, except me when I am asked to reflect on what I did to achieve my goals. I taught at a school where classroom observations were typically very few and far between and usually did not follow-up with ANY meaningful feedback. I have also taught at Continue Reading
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Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: How I Got Better
In my last post, Is Your District’s Teacher Evaluation System Stopping You From Being An Effective Educational Leader?, I wrote about my teacher evaluation experiences as a teacher, school administrator, and central office administrator. If you have not taken the Health of Your District’s Teacher Evaluation System Quiz from this article, I encourage you to do so now (HERE IT IS). It will lead you to valuable information and allow you access to the second part of the evaluation system equation, namely, your own practice. Regardless of the language of the contract around teacher evaluation, there are nuances of implementation Continue Reading