Teacher Evaluation and Supervision

Angela Elkordy, Doctoral Fellow, Eastern Michigan University October, 2011

Presentation Overview
Purpose of Supervision and Evaluation Goals of Clinical Supervision: Establish performance criteria (good teaching and work habits) Clinical Supervision process Plan of professional development Technology Assists

Purpose
Supervision and evaluation and evaluation of school personnel has several goals: to evaluate performance quality control (is there quality learning in the classroom?) quality control (effective teaching and administration) teacher growth school improvement Specific objectives for each teacher will vary

Setting Expectations
Before performance may be evaluated, expectations should be communicated. This may be accomplished through a variety of means: Job descriptions Evaluation criteria (distributed or posted as forms) Contracts Professional development (Orientation, ongoing) Mentoring and Role Models Teacher preparation

Philosophy of Teacher Supervision

Has changed through the years Initially, primarily to supervise Now, more to enhance performance Emphasis on growth and improvement Maximizing effectiveness by coaching, mentoring and growth of teachers knowledge and deployment of skills

Teacher Performance: Variety of Measures

To meaningfully evaluate teacher performance, administrators use various measures, including:

Planning and organization: quality of lesson plans goals and objectives, teaching strategies, assessment of learning Instructional delivery (pedagogy, strategies, techniques, approaches to learning) Effectiveness -- student achievement, ability to teach all children Classroom management Professionalism (timeliness, formal complaints or thanks) Participation in school culture (mentoring, collaborative work such as service on committees, events)

Teacher Performance Frameworks

Madeline Hunters ITIP (Instructional Theory Into Practice): http://www.hope.edu/academic/education/wessman/ 2block/unit4/hunter2.htm Charlotte Danielsons Framework for Teaching: http://www.tqsource.org/whatworks/WWC08building Capacity/presentations/SupportingTeacherEffectiven ess.pdf

Evaluating Teacher Performance

Feedback from peers, students and parents Analysis of student performance against benchmarks (pre and post assessments, curriculum standards) Information observations and walk-throughs Clinical supervision and evaluation

Opportunities for Feedback (informal)

Frequent feedback is critical to improving performance: Walkthroughs (sometimes aligned with specific objectives . E.g. greeting students at the door, using Venn diagrams, etc) Peer Review (teachers observing other teachers, perhaps for specific, shared objectives) During mentoring process
Mentors are assigned:
At beginning of career While implementing a new technique, process or strategy As a result of an individual development plan when deficiencies are formally noted (process of improvement)

Feedback (Formal)

Clinical Supervision and Evaluation is the process by which administrators typically:

pre conference observation data sharing/post conference set goals and expectations for further growth/improvement

Technology Assists
How can a system that has discrete data collection points be organized and normalized? The use of technology can help to:
Systematize supervision and evaluation so that all participants are evaluated on the same criteria Collecting data Analyze results Publishing/sharing analyses (web site, sharing documents) Professional development (mentoring, workshops)

Technology Assists
Animations or video to share performance expectations with teachers (especially new, or changing positions) as training Standardized testing (measure achievement against established standards) Student data systems (collect data for further analysis -- aggregate and disaggregate data) Create podcasts for professional development

Technology Assists
Videoconferencing (professional development and lesson observation) Technology-enabled evaluation systems (http://delicious.com/stacks/view/Qnhusq) Video for professional learning

Free / Low Cost Resources

Skype

Videoconferencing for meetings, training and professional development Videoconferencing for clinical supervision processes such as pre and post conferences Voice/chat for mentoring over long distances For collaboration between sites For inexpensive voice-over-Internet (VOIP) (Skype.com) Forms (Summative Form Example: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGFyRmR6M XVMbnRoVFBWbmdWYXRQa2c6MQ&ifq) Visual data Spreadsheet

Google docs (sign up for Google email for access)

Free /OpenSource Resources

Webinars AnyMeeting (free) (http://www.anymeeting.com/adw/Free-WebinarService.aspx) School data management OpenSIS: http://opensis.com/ Polling or survey software: SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, Polldaddy (www.surveymonkey.com)

Additional Resources
Charlotte Danielson: http://charlottedanielson.com/theframeteach.htm Rethinking Teacher Evaluation (Policy Brief): http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/publications/Teacher%20Eval %20Final.pdf Teacher Evaluation Stack (Bookmark collections) http://delicious.com/stacks/view/QvJb9F

Second Life
Simulations in Education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyP4a26jGgQ&feature=results_ main&playnext=1&list=PL24F5209F7E0EF615 Texas A & M University Second Life Campus: http://itsinfo.tamu.edu/Services/TAMU_Second_Life_Campus.php Intro to TAMU SL Campus: https://mediamatrix.tamu.edu/download_published_file.php?publis hed_file_id=323680 Virtual University (University of Western Australia): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4XzOuuGZM0 Second Life Beginner Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAb4XxnVMM History Grid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnour0QF11E