1. Chapter 14: Evaluation of Instruction

2. Teacher Assessment:
The professional growth and development of teachers is the fundamental purpose of teacher assessment.

3. Teacher Assessment:
The goal is to enable teachers to receive appropriate feedback in order to improve their teaching and their students’ learning.
Accountability? / Teacher Development?

4. Teacher Assessment:
Talk to your clinical teacher about how he/she is assessed.
Why are teachers assessed?
What can you do to prepare for assessment?

5. Standards-Based Teacher Assessment:
No Child Left Behind Act: standards of teacher quality.
1. Full state certification.
2. Passed state teacher
licensing examination.
3. Minimum: Bachelor’s
Degree
4. Demonstate subject
matter competency.

6. Teacher Assessment: National Board Certification: Bachelor’s Degree
+ 3 years classroom experience.
Certification valid for 10 years.
Certification fee: $2,300 –
sometimes district subsidized.
Salary increases.
State to state reciprocity for hiring.
Accepted as ‘elective’ credit at USU.

7. Teacher Assessment: Formal
Tied to teacher retention.
Period of teacher probation.
District specific.
Frequent observation during early years.

8. Teacher Assessment: Formal feedback. May include portfolio.
Performance
standards outlined
in evaluation
instrument.

9. Teacher Assessment Informal:
Administrator ‘drop-ins’
Peer Coaching
Mentoring
Teacher initiated
observations

10. Teacher Assessment : Informal
Focused skill observations
Observing of peers
Student
Feedback
Teacher
Reflection
Peer Learning
Groups