Handbook on Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation and Professional Development

Taylor & Francis

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:\n - \""high stakes\"" summative evaluations\n - initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions\n - fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance\n\n This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to:\n - collect and analyze data about their effectiveness\n - monitor and improve their own performance\n - improve student learning\n\n Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define:\n - standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers\n - behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching\n - \""artifacts\"" which provide evidence of teaching and learning\n - scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation\n\n The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance as.