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Johnson, Susan Moore; Fiarman, Sarah E. – Educational Leadership, 2012
Peer review of teachers is controversial for several reasons. Some say peer reviewers encroach on the rightful domain of the principal as instructional leader. Others argue that, because peer evaluators are fellow teachers, they may be biased or unwilling to make hard decisions. Many teachers find the prospect of peer evaluation unsettling because…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Evaluators, Effective Schools Research, Best Practices
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Mielke, Paul; Frontier, Tony – Educational Leadership, 2012
Like high-stakes student assessment, high-stakes teacher evaluation threatens to be an occasional event that is disconnected from day-to-day teaching and learning, producing results that do not help teachers improve their performance and placing teachers in a passive role as recipients of external judgment. For several years, the authors have…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Supervision
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Danielson, Charlotte – Educational Leadership, 2012
Classroom observation is a crucial aspect of any system of teacher evaluation. No matter how skilled a teacher is in other aspects of teaching--such as careful planning, working well with colleagues, and communicating with parents--if classroom practice is deficient, that individual cannot be considered a good teacher. Classroom observations can…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Evaluation
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Ellis, Elmer C.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1979
Teachers have a different attitude toward supervision when they have participated in a program of peer supervision. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Peer Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes
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Hosford, Philip; Neuenfeldt, John – Educational Leadership, 1979
Research indicates that four-minute videotape segments may provide the best, most practical diagnostic tool available to supervisors in both preservice and inservice programs. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Evaluation
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Sergiovanni, Thomas J. – Educational Leadership, 1977
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Bryant, Gerald; Haack, Frank – Educational Leadership, 1977
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Peer Evaluation
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Eckard, Pamela J.; McElhinney, James H. – Educational Leadership, 1977
Argues the importance of improving teacher evaluation and educational accountability, and outlines a suggested model for effective teacher supervision and evaluation. (JG)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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McGreal, Thomas L. – Educational Leadership, 1982
Evaluation procedures should focus on improving instruction, should be realistic and practical, and should enhance the supervisor-teacher relationship. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development, Instructional Improvement
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Kuralt, Richard C. – Educational Leadership, 1987
A junior high school principal describes how a small lap-top computer to record teacher and student classroom behavior assists in giving teachers an objective record and analysis. After independently analyzing the transcript, teacher and principal discuss recommendations during a postobservation conference. (CJH)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement
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Brandt, Ronald S. – Educational Leadership, 1986
A professor of educational psychology describes the goals of research in progress on the personal characteristics of expert teachers, compares classroom management techniques of expert teachers with those of beginning and student teachers, and criticizes existing teacher evaluation systems for their lack of uniform standards and experienced…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Master Teachers, Models