Two Sides of the Coin: Evaluation and Support Work Together to Strengthen Teaching

Autor/in	Kise, Jane
Titel	Two Sides of the Coin: Evaluation and Support Work Together to Strengthen Teaching
Quelle	In: Journal of Staff Development, 35 (2014) 6, S.24-28 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-928X
Schlagwörter	Faculty Development; Teacher Competencies; Teacher Evaluation; Evaluation Methods; Values; Accountability; Teacher Improvement; Inservice Teacher Education; Teaching Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrkunst; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Wertbegriff; Verantwortung; Lehrerfortbildung; Lehrbefähigung; Lehrkompetenz; Unterrichtsbefähigung
Abstract	Like any profession or talent, mastering teaching takes thousands of hours of deliberate practice (Ericsson, Prietula, & Cokely, 2007). Here, "deliberate" means having a coach or mentor to provide feedback on key skills and strategies for practicing to develop them. If this is true--that mastering the practices of great teaching takes years--then how can we rate teachers ineffective as they first enter a classroom or even when master teachers are developing new skills? Rating systems need to consider this very real trajectory of growth. Yet many of the evaluation systems being adopted across the country (and in other countries) are ranking teachers from highly effective to ineffective and, in some cases, using the rankings to begin termination. How did this happen? Because the difficulties being experienced in evaluating teachers were viewed as a problem to solve instead of a system of interdependent values--a polarity. Leveraging the wisdom of each pole could move toward the goal that the sides have in common: effective teachers in every classroom. Stakeholders need to recognize the valuable contributions of the other position. This article looks at what might happen during a gathering of minds on this issue. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10