The author presents approaches other countries take to improve college teaching. (PG)

Faculty evaluation can play an important role in the professional growth of the individual instructor. Community Colleges is a monthly supplement to Change'' magazine. (MB)

Suggestions for conducting post-observation conferences are provided, indicating that supervisors should minimize threats and be sensitive to teachers' professional pride, attitudes, and feelings. Suggestions related to four parts of the conference process--planning, coaching and counseling, goal identification, and closure--are identified. (JN)

Suggests ways to make constructive principal-teacher conferences an integral part of a consistent, equitable teacher evaluation process. (Author/WD)

This study tested two hypotheses. Part-time instructors could enhance their teaching (1) if they are informed of the student evaluations at mid-semester and (2) if they work with a consultant on selected areas for improvement. Findings supported the hypotheses. (AM)

Teacher evaluation programs are discussed including teachers' fears about the uses of evaluation, abuses of such programs, the uses of subjective vs objective competency criteria, and the relationship of evaluation to current demands for accountability. (JMF)

Addresses how teaching quality and student performance can be promoted, offering a blueprint for teacher evaluation, applicable to both regular and special education, based on differentiated supervision and evaluation as well as metacognitive reflection. The paper discusses the pitfalls of misusing teacher evaluation criteria and explains how…

To help struggling teachers, principals have recourse to the Institute for Professional Development, a program operated by the University of Central Florida. Functioning as a help-line for at-risk teachers, the program offers teaching tips and conducts informal evaluations of teachers seeking help. Teachers gain skills and confidence, and the…

Before deciding to recommend nonrenewal of a teacher's contract, the principal must be prepared to identify specific areas where significant improvement is critical and to provide maximum possible assistance. Some tips are provided to help principals prepare the formal evaluation, lend assistance, make the final decision, and live with it. (MLH)

During the 1995-96 school year, administrators in Lawrence Township School District in Indianapolis, Indiana, worked with teachers to develop an evaluation system that would encourage teachers to engage in positive self-assessment and grow professionally throughout their careers. Teachers like the new system better than the previous one. (11…

The authors describe the premises, processes used, and outcomes of a K-16 simultaneous renewal model, as implemented through the Kansas State University Professional Development School Partnership Project. The goal of this partnership is to improve K-12 teaching and learning while improving a university teacher-preparation program through…

Many factors make it difficult to identify a teacher formally as incompetent and to act on that identification once it is made. These factors include time constraints, bureaucratic requirements, and reluctance to face emotional stress. Once a poor teacher is identified, efforts are rarely made to help the teacher improve. Unsatisfactory…

THE PURPOSES OF EVALUATION ARE TO (1) PERMIT THE SCHOOL TO ASSESS ITS EFFECTIVENESS, (2) IMPROVE INSTRUCTION, AND (3) ASSURE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHER. IF EVALUATION CAN BE PROPOSED AS A WAY TO RECOGNIZE SUPERIOR TEACHERS RATHER THAN AS A SEARCH FOR FAULT, IT IS LIKELY TO MEET WITH LESS RESISTANCE. INITIAL EVALUATION, A PART OF THE…

Administrators' classroom observation of teachers makes most teachers angry or fearful. An insufficiently used alternative method of obtaining a valid analysis of a teacher's abilities is to get objective information from the students themselves. This can best be done by a third-party interviewer who is not in a position of authority over either…