Understanding and implementing effective classroom assessments are skills that are essential to increasing student achievement. Unfortunately, many teachers have had little training in assessment strategies in either graduate or undergraduate programs. Administrators, therefore, must find innovative ways to help their teachers think like assessors…

It is suggested that the total faculty organize itself for systematic evaluation of the teacher by his peers. (Editor)

Colleagues can make an important contribution to the evaluation of faculty performance. There are several aspects of teaching that colleagues would be able to judge. These are discussed in this paper along with other methods of assessing teaching. (Editor/PG)

OF 26 FULL-TIME MEMBERS AT COLUMBUS COLLEGE, 19 VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY OF A SELF-EVALUATION PROCEDURE. USING A 7-POINT SCALE, EACH PARTICIPANT RATED HIMSELF ON (1) SPEAKING VOICE, (2) MANNERISMS, (3) KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT, (4) HIS ENTHUSIASM, (5) CLASS ENTHUSIASM, (6) DIGRESSIONS, (7) ORGANIZATION AND PREPARATION, (8) USE OF ANALOGIES,…

This booklet is a revised and abridged reprint of "Let's Teach Adults," brought out by the Florida State Department of Education in 1954. In this printing, references have been broadened to apply to the country as a whole. The four chapters, intended for use by teachers and directors of adult education programs, discuss beginning first classes…

If institutions of higher education are serious about encouraging excellence in teaching, then they must be prepared to reward such excellence in a manner similar to that for excellence in scholarly achievement. The first step to achieve this goal would be to establish a standard system of evaluating instructional effectiveness that would have as…

The purpose of this study was to investigate two questions pertaining to student evaluation of teachers. These are: (1) Do students indeed provide the instructor with information about instructional practices that he doesn't already know? and (2) If this is the case, to what extent is it true at a variety of colleges and for a significant…

Offers a supervision plan designed to help identify teaching deficiencies, assist in planning and managing improvement, and create situations promoting dialogue beween principals and teachers. The plan involves yearly goal setting, pre- and postobservation conferences, and an informal observation process. (MLH)

A tool to assess teaching competence includes questions on Social Sciences, Analysis of Classroom Needs, Program Design, Methods to Teach, and Methods to Evaluate. (JB)

Teacher performance evaluations should be teaching learning centered; planned and continuous; cooperatively designed and implemented. (Author/AF)

Although conflicts based on role, purpose, personal relationships, values, and expectations are inherent in the supervisory process, everything that happens between teacher and principal has potential for promoting the teacher's personal and professional growth. (Author/IRT)

Recommends the establishment of a system of rewards for teaching excellence on the university level, as judged by some form of peer review. (Author/DB)

The first edition of this book was highly regarded by both professors and students for its practicality and its: (1) coverage of tools & strategies to help supervisors work effectively with teachers; (2) up-to-date approach to clinical supervision which includes teacher portfolios, action research, peer coaching, and other innovative practices;…