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Presents a quick, easy, and effective guide to the task of staff evaluation. With the CD-ROM, evaluation will become easier and faster without compromising the results. CD-ROM is PC compatible. CD-ROM is not sold separately.
Writing Meaningful Evaluations----Right Now!! is an instrument designed to quickly and easily facilitate the completion of quality performance-based written evaluations. The book serves as an invaluable aid to not only experienced administrators and supervisors, but most especially to those new to the task of conducting written evaluation documents. The book supplies users with quick and efficient variety of tools necessary for writing fact-filled, performance-based, comprehensive, quality teacher evaluations. It seeks to empower educators in their effort to meet goals efficiently and expeditiously, pertaining to monitoring, assessing, and documenting instructional performance. This innovative guide can be used to transpose those competencies into the universal language of education.
More than ever, this third edition of the best-selling Writing Meaningful Evaluations-Right Now!! is vital tool for every busy administrator! In an era of increasing demands for quality performance-based evaluations, this book offers supervisors a diverse bank of areas to address during an evaluation plus sample phrases to assist in describing a teacher's performance. By supplying users with quick and efficient tools for writing fact-filled and comprehensive teacher evaluations, the book empowers educators to verbalize their goals and vision for their schools. Updated throughout, this essential reference guide provides sample evaluations, forms, performance proficiency statements, and a timesaving CD-ROM with forms that can be easily customized. The book greatly enhances administrators' capacity for monitoring, assessing, and documenting instructional performance by providing tools for developing evaluations that are individualized and that provide an accurate, meaningful record for both admininstrators and staff.
Save time writing your non-instructional staff assessments with these tailored "Performance Statements," job descriptions, reproducible forms, timesaving CD-ROM, and more. CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible and not sold separately.
Find the right words to communicate with teachers, other educators, personnel, vendors, and more Perfect Phrases for School Administrators contains features the key words, phrases, acronyms, jargon and buzzwords used in the field of education and training. You can use these words to write teacher evaluations, settle union issues and contract disputes, deal with vendors and sales reps, communicate effectively with staff, deescalate grievances, and more.
Teacher evaluation systems are being overhauled by states and districts across the United States. And, while intentions are admirable, the result for many new systems is that goodoften excellentteachers are lost in the process. In the end, students are the losers. In her new book, Linda Darling-Hammond makes a compelling case for a research-based approach to teacher evaluation that supports collaborative models of teacher planning and learning. She outlines the most current research informing evaluation of teaching practice that incorporates evidence of what teachers do and what their students learn. In addition, she examines the harmful consequences of using any single student test as a basis for evaluating individual teachers. Finally, Darling-Hammond offers a vision of teacher evaluation as part of a teaching and learning system that supports continuous improvement, both for individual teachers and for the profession as a whole.
Written by leadership expert Elaine L. Wilmore, this ideal resource helps aspiring and practicing superintendents attain proficiency in the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) standards.
This leadership induction program focuses on the importance of an effective induction process in the recruitment, development, and retention of school principals.
This text provides teachers with a step-by-step road map for developing children's performance, creative movement, and literacy skills in an organic and thoughtful manner. Over 100 children's books are incorporated into 'Kodaly in the Kindergarten Classroom', as well as 35 detailed lesson plans that demonstrate how music and literacy curriculum goals are transformed into tangible musical objectives. Each chapter contains key questions, discussion points, and ongoing assignments.
