The National Occupational Testing Institute, which provides a program of occupational competency examinations for vocational education, will enable individuals in vocational education to participate in higher education through demonstrated competence. Its efforts will assist in improving vocational teacher competence and raise the professional…

In outline agenda form, this guide addresses the issue of training and supervising graduate students teaching the basic undergraduate speech course in university speech departments. The sections are as follows: (1) Introduction of staff and participants; (2) Rationale for assuring quality and standardization in the basic course by systematically…

Featuring the same practical guidelines for ridding schools of incompetent teachers as the 1984 edition, this new edition incorporates substantially revised material on three topics: criteria and information sources for evaluating teaching effectiveness, remediation procedures, and grounds for dismissal. The book presents an eight-step systematic,…

This manual describes a training program for teacher evaluation. The purpose of the program is to provide educators who evaluate classroom instruction with the tools that result in professional growth for the teachers and improvement of classroom instruction. Joint participation by teachers and administrators is encouraged in all phases of the…

In 1984, Waunakee Community School District (Wisconsin) developed the Teaching Incentives Pilot Program to study teacher compensation, teacher evaluation, and staff development. The program goals were (1) to provide a system to retain and reward competent teachers, (2) to promote educational excellence through quality instructors, and (3) to link…

This paper looks at the uses and limitations of performance pay, what sorts of decisions need to be made at various points, how decisions in one area are related to decisions in others, and what practical questions need to be answered if policy makers decide to put new or revised pay-for-performance systems in place. Specifically, the paper: (1)…

The purpose of this guide, one of the nine-booklet Teacher Quality Series, is to help educational policymakers develop better policies by explaining how to use a compensation plan to improve education and how to make one work. It also encourages consideration of alternative policies to improve education. Each section introduces common positions on…

Although general agreement exists about the importance of inservice teacher education, there is general dissatisfaction with its typical large-group implementation. A more successful strategy is to devise inservice programs that are based on the individual objectives of individual teachers. In such programs principals plan cooperatively with each…

Underscoring the need for improved supervision and evaluation policies as a means of increasing public confidence in the quality of education in Massachusetts public schools, this yearbook presents six articles describing supervision and evaluation innovations. Specific topics include a summary of recommendations compiled by the Study Committee in…

The Instrument for a Comprehensive and Relevant Education (ICARE) evaluation system seeks to identify teacher effectiveness in health occupations education. This report details the extent to which the use of the ICARE system has been effective in changing the educational practices of health educators who participated in ICARE workshops. The two…

This paper on the supervision and evaluation of teachers as professional personnel begins by delineating the characteristics and expectations of professionals, and then explains how they are socialized into their roles, the reasons why they should be supervised, the blocks and hindrances to supervision and evaluation, and how the blocks may be…

What it takes to be a teacher and the inherent difficulties of the teacher's situation are discussed in the introduction to this paper. The major portion of the document consists of a discussion of the preparation and development of teachers, which may be divided into three periods: (1) the pre-student-teaching period, (2) the student-teaching…

This paper explores criteria for judging teaching effectiveness in the language arts. The author argues that a number of studies have been concerned with viewing pupil-teacher interaction during instruction, but few have focused on this interaction during the teaching and learning of specific language arts lessons. There is a need for establishing…

A rationale and series of steps are provided for use by local school districts in Iowa in developing a teacher evaluation program. The four basic questions to be asked by teacher evaluation program planners are: (1) What shall be our criteria of desired teacher performance? (2) How high shall our standards be? (3) How do we want to measure and…

Focusing its efforts on the improvements of the teacher-learning process in higher education, the Institute for Educational Technology at the University of Surrey engages in applied research and service activities including the development and evaluation of teaching and learning innovations, and the training of university teachers. Research and…