evaluation

=Staff Evaluation=

Questions to ask

 * 1) How can I make sure that the teachers are implementing the curriculum effectively? ([|buy-in, enthusiasm, other factors in implementation])

Articles/other to read and summarize

 * School, home factors affecting achievement: []
 * Teacher performance evaluations - The Widget Effect, Teachers emotional - Harrison School District
 * [|ASCD Blog 6/26/2009] - Inadequate national evaluation system - instruments, time, resources, used for motivation but need to be used for feedback. Included [|Laura Goe 103 page paper] on evaluating teacher effectiveness.
 * [|EdWeek 4/21/09 Article]: Stimulus money tied to evaluations, continuing criticism of systems, break up of types of evaluations.
 * [|Report about teacher effectiveness] from the DeBruyn Institute for Teaching Excellence, in conjunction with the Kansas State University Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation (OEIE). Self note- downloaded to pd directory.
 * [|American Evaluation Association Web site] -- will this be useful?
 * Center for American Progress, 6/30/2009 - [|Using Teacher Evaluations to Improve Education]

Suggestions for evaluations

 * [|Team evaluations] and evaluate teachers on what they should be doing in the classroom based on best practices. Are the daily objectives listed on the white board? Is the teacher using proper questioning strategies? How is the teacher moving around the room?