TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
AU  - Thomas Toch.
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ED  - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.;National Education Association of the United States.
ED  - 
SN  - 2
PY  - 2008///46
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Department of Supervision and Curriculum Development, N.E.A.
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KW  - 2
KW  - 0
KW  - 6
KW  - 20
KW  - Teachers.;Teacher Improvement
KW  - Staff assessment;Tearcher quality;Educational Change
KW  - Professional development;Teacher Evaluation
KW  - School improvement.;Educational Improvement
KW  - sears;sears0
KW  - Administrators
N1  - ABSTRACT: Because they focus on the quality of instruction, teacher evaluations can be powerful catalysts for teacher and school improvement. But today, the typical teacher evaluation consists of a single, fleeting classroom visit by an administrator untrained in evaluation. Often he or she wields a checklist of classroom conditions and teacher behaviors that don't focus directly on the quality of instruction. Several models of evaluation demonstrate that it's possible to evaluate teachers in much more productive ways. These models use explicit standards to evaluate teachers, are based on multiple measures, and involve multiple evaluators and evaluations. Because comprehensive classroom evaluation systems are more labor-intensive, they are more expensive than principal drive-bys or evaluations based on test scores. But they are an investment worth making because they improve teachers' performance and signal to teachers that they are professionals doing important work; 5
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