In this powerful collection of personal accounts, successful and respected teachers from across the country reveal how recent education policies have played out in their schools and classrooms in negative and counterproductive ways, and offer teacher-led alternatives for providing equitable, engaging, and empowering education. Framed by critical…

Maintains that more valid student evaluations of teacher performance on the college level will result if evaluation questionnaires reflect specific teaching situations and student cohorts. The Echo technique (which is based on reflecting evaluative comments in the student's own words) is suggested as a means of producing more valid evaluations.…

Presents two rating scales, one for teacher self-evaluation, the other for student evaluation of teaching performance. (SS)

The document presents a point-based faculty professional development plan initiated by Alvin Community College (Texas). A list of activities and their respective point values are utilized by faculty members to document professional growth and development, with a thirty point minimum for the academic year necessary for advancement to the next…

This document consists of workshop materials used during a paper/poster session at the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) summer conference. Presenters modeled the use of case literature as a tool for teaching about culturally responsible pedagogy and effective instruction. The cases were developed from observations of and interviews with…

The clinic process for teaching improvement is a systematic process based on the needs of individual faculty participants. It includes the identification of specific instructional strengths and problem areas. In addition to using consultation with a teaching specialist, the process uses a student questionnaire called Teaching Analysis By Students…

This manual is the final report on a two-year project to enhance the effectiveness of teaching assistants. It is designed as a workbook for persons conducting instructional programs for teaching assistants and is specific to teaching assistants in engineering and the natural sciences. The manual contains an introduction and six chapters. Chapter…

An overview of current approaches and perspectives for assessing faculty performance is presented. The evaluation principles and models are applicable for assessment goals of providing classroom feedback to an instructor, developing promotion, tenure and reappointment procedures, and offering an interface between faculty assessment and career…

The questionnaires in this manual are designed to provide perceptions on effective teaching of physical education at the elementary and secondary school level. Response forms are included for the use of administrators, professional educators, students, community persons, and the individual teacher. The instruments are designed to allow for data…

The present purposes of teacher evaluation commonly include: (1) professional growth for improvement of instruction; (2) clarifying goals and objectives; (3) measuring progress toward those goals; (4) clarifying inservice needs; (5) judging the contribution of the teacher to pupil progress; (6) determining salary; and (7) determining employment…

The faculty review program at Triton College fulfills responsibilities to accrediting and/or approving agencies while helping to maintain teaching effectiveness and to promote instructional improvement. The professional review consists of a comprehensive assessment of the instructor's total job performance as indicated through student, peer,…

This instructional analysis kit for teachers presents a self-evaluation form, 22 instructional elements, an annotated bibliography of learning resources for each element, and a student evaluation form parallel to the instructor self-evaluation form. Instructions are provided on administering the forms, analyzing instruction and student responses,…

Part of a system by which local education agency (LEA) personnel may evaluate secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs, this seventh of eight components focuses on evaluation of vocational education teachers. The activities suggested are designed primarily to aid the teacher in identifying and correcting individual weaknesses. A…

One of seven guides developed to assist vocational-technical institutions in conducting a systemized approach to local evaluation, this student perceptions guide presents a suggested methodology for conducting a needs assessment with in-school students. The matrix included in the guide depicts the factors and indicators assessed by the students…

This last in a series of six learning modules on instructional evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in identifying the sources and techniques needed in order to plan a method of teacher evaluation which is logical, usable, and capable of improving teaching performance on a continuing basis. The…