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Your breakthrough approach to top-notch teacher evaluations!
This hands-on professional development guide explores the critical ingredients of communication and trust for success in the new age of teacher evaluation systems. Recognized expert Shelly Arneson provides concrete, proactive strategies to help school leaders:
Create and sustain a supportive, honest, and collaborative school culture
Foster effective communication and build teacher-principal trust
Conduct evidence-based observations and evaluations
Hold effective follow-up conversations that nurture teacher growth
Promote teacher self-assessment and reflection
Includes absorbing real world vignettes, reflection questions, and ample modeling examples for quick success. Before heading into an observation or post-observation conference you'll find quick nuggets of wisdom you can reference again and again. Use this informative guide to transform the teacher evaluation process today!
" An absolute essential for any bookshelf of the novice or seasoned administrator. . . . Really hits home on how trust is essential for effective evaluations. . . . The book covers all angles of why trust and evaluations go hand in hand."
—Jason Eitner, Superintendent
The Lower Alloways Creek School District, Canton Salem, NJ
"In order for student growth to make a positive impact you, as the instructional leader, need to make a positive impact with your teachers; this starts with trust and building a better teacher via evaluations. This book will lead you in that direction!"
—Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal
John C. Dore Elementary School, Chicago, IL
Contents
Foreword by Charlotte Danielson
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Introduction
2. Evaluation Done "With" Teachers, Not "to" Teachers
3. Building Teacher Trust and Communication in the Evaluation Process
4. Builder 1: Build Relationships, Not an Empire
5. Builder 2: Teach the Process
6. Builder 3: Communicate Effectively
7. Builder 4: It's Not What You Say; It's How You Say It
8. Builder 5: Follow-Up With Honesty and Support
9. Factors Influencing Trust and Communication
10. The Legacy We Leave Behind
References
Index
