In 2007, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began implementing a schoolwide reform called the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) using funds from the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) and private foundations. Under the TAP model, teachers can earn extra pay and responsibilities through promotion to mentor or master teacher as well as annual…

Expresses reservations about the model for assessing creative activities in evaluating teachers for promotion. (PD)

Identifies ways in which arts administrators can prepare their artist-teachers for the process of tenure and promotion. (PD)

Argues that educators need to acknowledge how the material interests of part-time and adjunct teachers, graduate assistants, tenure-stream faculty, and administrators can come into conflict in composition in order to negotiate fairly among them. Discusses how the culture of academic professionalism militates against such a consciousness, and…

The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) was developed in the late 1990s by the Milken Family Foundation as a schoolwide policy to improve schools by raising teacher quality. Under the TAP model, teachers can earn extra pay and responsibilities through promotion to Mentor or Master Teacher and can earn annual performance bonuses based on a…

Much of the current North American academic crisis of publishing, tenure, and promotion is both the cause and the effect of this fetishization dominant in the humanities: that of the grand narrative of knowledge-production, respectably bound with a spine. Short works will get one only so far, no matter how many of them one produces, or how well.…

In this paper, we offer discourse on the historical plight and contemporary experiences of African American faculty in Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) programs at predominantly White institutions (PWI) of higher education. First, we discuss the historical plight of African American KPE professionals. Second, we discuss the current…

Author argues that most teacher evaluators, because of their lack of essential information and evaluation skills, revert to criteria they think they can handle - picking out the socially sophisticated "nice guy." (Author)

Editorial which points out that good teachers receive no more pay than bad teachers, and which calls for an overhall of public education in order to reward those teachers who do their job well. (LS)

The Female Administrative Intern Program in Windham, Connecticut, prepares aspiring women school executives for the rigors of school management. One technique the women use: shadowing administrators in other school systems. (Authors)

Discusses the author's experience in finding her current teaching position and her denial of tenure. Offers advice for educators pursuing tenure. Suggests that the Conference on College Composition and Communication could provide a much-needed service by gathering and disseminating both survey data and individual stories in an effort to determine…

In 1977, a task force on teaching evaluation was formed at the University of California to recommend means of implementing reliable, flexible and effective teaching evaluation for the improvement of teaching and the consideration of teaching in personnel actions. Surveys of faculty and department chairs revealed strong support for colleague…

ACADEMIC RANK IS INCREASING IN FREQUENCY IN AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGES. THE PRIMARY REASON FOR ADOPTION OF RANK IS A DESIRE TO IDENTIFY WITH SENIOR INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, FOLLOWED BY HOPES OF INCREASING STATUS AND MORALE, OF RELATING SALARY TO TEACHING PROFICIENCY, OF ATTRACTING BETTER FACULTY AND OF FACILITATING ACCEPTANCE OF…

A forthcoming Association for Curriculum Development Task Force on Merit Pay and Career Ladders report contends that all teachers can be paid decent salaries and that any implemented plan must have the support and involvement of those to be affected, must ensure due process, and must develop trust in the evaluators. (DCS)

Identifies six major techniques used to evaluate the creative work of theatre faculty. Explores major problems associated with each technique. (PD)