Full Description
This book and downloadable resources show school leaders how to develop teacher portfolios and put them into action. They will provide confidence and credibility as you engage in:
- "high stakes" summative evaluations
- initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions
- fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance
This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to:
- collect and analyze data about their effectiveness
- monitor and improve their own performance
- improve student learning
Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define:
- standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers
- behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching
- "artifacts" which provide evidence of teaching and learning
- scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation
The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance assessment rubrics, feedback forms, and other documents to help you organize & implement Teacher Portfolios in your school.
Contents
Acknowledgments, About the Authors, Preface, 1 - Handbook on Teacher Portfolios: An Introduction, 2 - Developing a Teacher Portfolio, 3 - Putting Portfolios into Action, 4 - Teacher Portfolios and Teacher Evaluation, 5 - Teacher Portfolios and Professional Development, 6 - The Role of Portfolios for the Teaching Profession, Appendices
