In our last article, How to Have Difficult Conversations with Teachers, we explored some areas school leaders may want to consider when coaching teachers and staff members for improvement. We received several emails on the topic and the response to our free resource How to Open a Can of Worms: A School Leader’s Guide to Having Difficult Conversations with Teachers encouraged us to spend … [Read more...]
Job Analysis for Teachers: What do You Know About what Makes Your Effective Staff Members. . . . Effective?
A reader of recently emailed me and wrote, “You include the use of a job analysis for teachers in nearly every aspect of human resources that you write about. You've written about the need for a job analysis when hiring teachers, evaluating teachers, and training teachers. Can you elaborate on what exactly a job analysis is?” I quickly looked back through the archives of this site and they … [Read more...]
Zen and the Art of Evaluating Teachers: How Accuracy and Fairness a Teacher’s Perception of Performance Appraisals
What is the ultimate goal of teacher evaluations? Should you strive for accuracy, fairness, or satisfaction of those being evaluated? The answer for most administrators would be yes. Unfortunately, one or more of these factors are often absent due to the criteria on evaluations and lack of proper rater training. The ultimate goal of performance evaluations and performance management for … [Read more...]
Who Should Observe and Develop the Performance of Teachers?
Is a principal the only qualified professional in a school building who can evaluate teacher performance? Under most organizational models of education the answer seems to be, yes. It’s time to take another look at who can and should develop and help improve the performance of educators in a school district. When the current model of most schools began over eighty years ago, one of the … [Read more...]
How Do You Evaluate Teachers?
The question of how to evaluate teachers seems to draw more controversy than most any other professional occupation. You rarely read newspaper articles or hear pundits discussing on talk shows how a pilot, accountant, attorney, or physician should be evaluated. It is generally accepted that people in these professions should be evaluated based on the behaviors they exhibit that lead to or … [Read more...]
How to Evaluate Teachers
The question of how to evaluate teachers seems to draw more controversy than most any other professional occupation. Politicians seem to think they have it figured out but the solutions are not as easy as they would make it seem.You rarely read news paper articles or hear pundits discussing on talk shows how a pilot, accountant, attorney, or physician should be evaluated. It is generally accepted … [Read more...]
