Rethinking Teacher Evaluation: Its Concepts and Place in Supervision

• In Event: Supervision and Instructional Leadership SIG Meeting

Abstract

This session gathers supervision scholars writing about teacher evaluation to share their current thinking about how the field can contribute to teacher evaluation through concepts, research and practice. For long many have been silent about teacher evaluation, but with its advance to both federal and state reform in the wake of No Child Left Behind, supervision scholars re-emerge to take their place in the discourses and to offer concepts important to this contested practice. Papers address: risk-free virtual evaluation experiences for principals with feedback, the power and limits of rubric use, principal practices and thinking that promote teacher growth, and flawed thinking about improvement. In this session we hope to bring “new eyes” to familiar issues.

Authors

• Teresa Martin Starrett, Texas Woman's University

• Mary Lynne Derrington, The University of Tennessee

• John Wilson Campbell, Alcoa City Schools

• Yanira Oliveras-Ortiz, The University of Texas - Tyler

• Helen M. Hazi, West Virginia University