Outlines a career ladder program developed in the Provo (Utah) School District to identify and train teacher leaders. (MD)

Teachers need a principal who is conscientious, affirmative, and knowledgeable. Seven steps are offered to increase principals' chances of success in evaluating teachers. (MLF)

Reviews rationale for firing incompetent teachers and obstacles to dismissal. Citing 13 specific court decisions, discusses subcategories of successful dismissal cases involving insubordination and neglect of duty, unprofessional behavior, immorality, and inferior classroom performance. Mentions dismissal cases that foundered due to First…

Describes the Walker-Carfield Model for teacher evaluation, designed to reduce teacher anxiety and hostility and reduce administrator time. Includes the Teacher Effectiveness Chart. (MD)

The summative evaluation conference should focus on providing positive reinforcement for satisfactory or exemplary teaching performance, identifying behaviors that do not meet expectations, and describing how they can be improved. This article shows principals how to schedule and conduct such conferences, avoid judgmental approaches and common…

Contends that evaluation is determining whether a teacher is doing a good job and rating the teacher's performance, whereas supervision is determining what's happening in the classroom and perhaps giving a little advice. Steps to better evaluation include discarding checklists and annual formal evaluation, and providing opportunities for teacher…

Each school district in the state of Florida was required to submit for approval a model for implementing the Beginning Teacher Program mandated by the Florida legislature. The program model required that a support staff, consisting of a peer teacher, building-level administrator, and at least one other professional educator be assigned to assist…

Physical education contributes to the physical, mental, and emotional health of young people. Administrators must recognize these contributions and ensure an effective program by evaluating and retraining teachers to keep abreast of the recent knowledge explosion in physical education. (CJH)

Clinical supervision should not be construed as "delivery of services" to targeted audiences of teachers deemed inexperienced, inefficient, or incompetent. Supervision should instead empower and emancipate teachers by creating conditions under which they can examine classroom actions in terms of the historical, social, and cultural…

Discusses the educational reform movement's progress sine the 1983 landmark report "A Nation At Risk." Praises elementary school principals for concentrating on basic education while secondary schools were lowering graduation requirements. Urges sound leadership, student motivation, higher principal salaries, careful teacher evaluation, and strong…

A study to determine whether principals are influenced by attraction factors in teacher evaluations found that principals are affected by nonperformance factors when they evaluate teacher performance. (MD)

A recent North Carolina school board's decision to dismiss a tenured teacher was upheld by the courts. Florida's statewide competency exam was also supported by a federal court. (MD)

A survey of over 200 English comprehensive schools revealed that nearly half the schools had either implemented or were about to implement staff appraisal schemes. The survey emphasizes the definitional problem of appraisal; some styles of appraisal were the same as staff development. (MLF)

Presents a plan for individualizing and personalizing teacher supervision and evaluation. Includes five illustrations of components involved in the plan. (MD)

Presents four steps to follow in the process of evaluating incompetent teachers that will induce them to resign. (MD)