Tag: evaluating teachers
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 8) “Who Needs Tenure? Why Seniority?”
For today’s book review, I critiqued chapter 8, “Who Needs Tenure? Why Seniority?,” from John Merrow’s latest book, “The Influence of Teachers.” To summarize, John lays a case for how the teaching profession seems to award a now-useless method of “tenure” and “seniority” to teachers. While the profession definitely needed such protections decades ago, as [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 7) “Keeping Teachers”
For today’s book review, I critiqued chapter 7, “Keeping Teachers,” from John Merrow’s latest book, “The Influence of Teachers.” To summarize, John analyzes the current issue of “teacher dropout” or those that graduate from college/university Schools of Education, but never enter the field of education. John basically asks if this is a problem being perpetuated [...]
Book Review: The Influence of Teachers (Chapter 5)
For today’s book review, I take a look at Chapter 5, “Evaluating Teachers,” from John Merrow’s book “The Influence of Teachers.” Through this chapter, John tackles the notion of teacher evaluation and critically analyzes why data isn’t used a component of teacher evaluation? It appears as though a top-down management-style still exists within public schools, [...]
Supervision and Evaluation–Is There a Difference?
In the world of educational administration, there is a stark difference between supervision and evaluation. Though many would assume they share the core principles, they are actually very difference and unique. Despite these contrasts, an effective school administration should be able to demonstrate competency in how they supervise and evaluate their faculty and support staff. [...]
