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Making Performance-Based Evaluation Work For You: A Recipe For Personal Learning, Audrey Church Jun 2015

Making Performance-Based Evaluation Work For You: A Recipe For Personal Learning, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

Teacher observation and teacher evaluation are a given in American schools, and Charlotte Danielson's work in teacher effectiveness and professional practice has guided evaluation efforts for many years. There is a new, big kid in town, however. As Race to the Top requires documentation of student growth, and research shows that teacher effectiveness is a key factor in student learning, people see full implementation of performance-based teacher-evaluation systems in states and school districts across the nation. The goal of performance-based teacher evaluation is actually two-fold: first, to document teacher effectiveness and, second, to guide professional growth. Educators must not lose …


Free Technology Tools To Develop Professionally And Collaboratively, Laura L. Needs, Larry D. Long Jan 2010

Free Technology Tools To Develop Professionally And Collaboratively, Laura L. Needs, Larry D. Long

Larry D. Long

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From Literacy Methods Classes To The Real World: Experiences Of Pre-Service Teachers, Francesca Pomerantz, Michelle Pierce Apr 2004

From Literacy Methods Classes To The Real World: Experiences Of Pre-Service Teachers, Francesca Pomerantz, Michelle Pierce

Francesca Pomerantz

Pomerantz and Pierce conduct a study to compare the approaches and methods recommended in the literacy courses that were taught to the approaches and methods employed by students during the student teaching practicum and their first year as a classroom teacher. Results capture the developing belief systems of preservice teachers as they ventured from methods classes into the real world of classroom instruction.