The Aurora Public School System (Colorado) has devised a plan to ensure implementation of the adopted curriculum. By developing a program monitoring process and incorporating it in a handbook, staff can rate their behavior and use "green flags" or "red alerts" to characterize subject area strengths and deficiencies. (MLH)

This document presents a model for a program to guide teachers in effective self-evaluation. In this structured program, the teacher is expected to write course, unit, and daily lesson plans incorporating behaviorally stated objectives, which communicate his or her instructional intent. With the help of a trained observer-evaluator, the teacher is…

Many staff development efforts are based on correcting teachers' deficiencies or weaknesses. In this staff improvement model, individual teaching styles and patterns of behavior were identified, so that they could be used in a more professional way. In determining teaching styles, it is pointed out that there is a quantitative aspect and that many…