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Teacher Evaluation to Enhance Professional Practice

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Teacher evaluation—a term that brings fear, anticipation, stress, anxiety, or even boredom to the hearts of teachers and administrators everywhere. How can we reinvent teacher evaluation so that it really makes a difference—so that everyone in school benefits from it, so that teachers and administrators learn from it, so that students succeed as a result of it? The bad news is that many schools and districts seem to be stuck in old ruts, involving The observation, The Behavior Checklist, The Conference, and The Judgment. The good news is that many districts have paved the way for teacher evaluation to actually become professional development, by using a three-track evaluation system:

Table of contents

A Flawed System

The Once and Present Context for Teacher Evaluation: Important Lessons

The Evaluative Criteria, or the “What”

Sources of Information

Evaluation Procedures, or the “How”

About the authors

Charlotte Danielson is an internationally-recognized expert in the area of teacher effectiveness and founder of the Danielson Group. She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten through college, and has served as an administrator, a curriculum director, and a staff developer.

In her book, Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, she introduced The Danielson Framework, as it has come to be called, a widely used instructional framework intended to promote clear and meaningful conversations about effective teaching practices.

As an educational consultant, Danielson has focused on teacher quality and evaluation, curriculum planning, performance assessment, and professional development with hundreds of school districts, universities, and state departments of education.

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