Description of an in-service training program in India for elementary school teachers. (SP)

Author, a private school headmaster, describes his goal-oriented" method of supervising experienced teachers. (SP)

The author discusses teachers' and school board opinions of being evaluated and their initial hostile reaction to the process. At the termination of the evaluation, most teachers and boards come to realize its value. (AF)

Suggests ways of judging teacher performance based on the five basic steps in the teacher evaluation process: (1) gathering information and making judgments; (2) holding the evaluation conference; (3) identifying areas needing improvement; (4) providing assistance; and (5) guiding the teacher out of teaching if improvement cannot be made.…

Discusses how teachers may videotape their own teaching as a method of self-evaluation. Offers ideas on questions to ask while viewing the tape. (SR)

Describes how one middle school uses teacher portfolios for gathering information about teacher practice and evaluating progress made toward stated goals. Teachers develop portfolios in five sections and submit them to their principal mid-year. At this time, they reflect on their work and complete conferences with peers and supervisors. A sidebar…

Lists reasons teaching portfolios have become popular: they encourage teachers and administrators to place emphasis and value on teaching; teaching portfolios are often seen as an improvement over earlier ways to evaluate teachers, including student evaluation and single observations; and teaching portfolios are celebrated for their potential to…

Unlike staff development directives generated by schools and districts, self-coaching helps teachers address individual professional goals and interests. A reflective self-coaching framework that helps teachers at every career stage assess their needs, set goals, and plan their own professional development is presented. The framework uses four…

This paper considers two examples of recent policies affecting teachers' work, Performance Threshold Assessment in England and Chartered Teacher status in Scotland. Through tracing their origins and motivations, a comparative analysis is offered, which seeks to explore the extent of the influence of national contexts on developments in the…

This paper presents a model that can be used in many settings where there is a need to chart and evaluate continuous professional learning. Every use begins with assessing needs and defining goals for professional growth in context. Vertical movement along a spiral, with continuous support and coaching, indicates expanded capacity and maturation.…

Research on elementary teaching practices has provided a list of effective teacher behaviors. This list can be used as a menu from which administrators and teachers can select objectives that will serve the teachers as goals for improvement and the administrators as criteria for teacher evaluation. The behaviors listed in this paper have been…

A discussion of accountability of teacher performance using domain-referenced tests. (HB)

An alternative to traditional teacher evaluation is offered through the development of an objectives-oriented growth plan for classroom teachers. Responsibility for establishing the growth plan is placed with the individual teacher, who is required to specify personal goals and objectives, and to design, carry out, and evaluate the program…

This study examined (1) teachers' ability to describe their own learning style and (2) whether teachers of differing conceptual levels view their own materials as primary or supportive instructional aids. The Paragraph Completion Test was administered to 34 teachers to measure conceptual level. These teachers were also asked to describe their own…