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Teacher Evaluation: to Enhance Professional Practice
Charlotte Danielson and Thomas L. McGreal
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000
ISBN: 0871203804The term "teacher evaluation" can bring fear into the hearts of many who have experienced rigid, inappropriate, and limiting kinds of assessments of their work. Here is a description of how to reinvent teacher evaluation so that not only teachers and administrators will benefit from the process, but so will their students.
This book shows how teacher evaluation can actually become professional development by using a three-track system: Track I is for beginning teachers and promotes growth and new learning through mentoring, frequent observations, and support systems. Track II is for tenured teachers and includes self-assessment, goal setting, data collection, formative evaluation, study groups, action plans, and evaluation in which teachers play an active role. Track III is for tenured teachers who need assistance and focuses on remediating difficulties and suggests further support systems.
The book is filled with practical examples and strategies, and also includes illuminating case studies of various public schools. The authors note that "it is possible to employ evaluation procedures that engage both teachers and administrators in a professional dialogue about students, their learning, and teaching. This can be accomplished without radically restructuring the entire school district, spending huge amounts of money, or engaging in other kinds of efforts often demanded by transforming ideas. Instead, the educators involved simply must think differently about an activity-teacher evaluation-in which they are already engaged and which is required by law."
Charlotte Danielson is author of Enhancing Professional Practice and is Development Leader for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey.
Thomas McGreal is Professor Emeritus of Educational Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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