Evaluating and supporting early childhood teachers / Angèle Sancho Passe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Passe, Angèle Sancho, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood teachers--Rating of.

Early childhood teachers.

Early childhood teachers--In-service training.

Mentoring in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Accessible tools to help early childhood leaders support, train, evaluate, and empower teachers and raise quality in early education.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why I Wrote This Book; Who This Book Is For; How the Book Is Organized; 1. The Role of the Education Leader; Defining Evaluation and Support; Introducing the Guiding Principles for Evaluating and Supporting Teachers; Assessing Your Current Practices; Observation: How Well Are Teachers Evaluated and Supported? Sample Form; Self-Assessment: How Well Are You Evaluating and Supporting Teachers? Sample Form; Visualizing Your Well-Supported and Well-Evaluated Early Childhood Workplace

Create a Caring Community of WorkersEnhance Professional Competence; Provide Appropriate Direction and Resources; Assess Professional Skills and Growth; Facilitate Involvement in the Field of Early Childhood Education; 2. Creating a Caring Community of Workers; Creating Good Working Conditions; Hire with Care; Pay Fairly; Set a Predictable Schedule with Reasonable Flexibility; Create a Physically and Emotionally Safe Environment; Setting a Common Agenda; Developing Professional Relationships with Teachers; Use Data as the Basis of the Relationship; Put Yourself in the Mind of the Teacher

Encouraging a Culture of CollaborationCommunicating Effectively; Make Expectations Clear; Find Many Ways to Communicate, and Communicate Often; Weekly Communication Sample Form; Listen as Well as Speak; Welcome Feedback; Give Feedback and Offer Solutions Thoughtfully; Give Affirmations; Modeling Caring and Empathy; Maintaining Your Caring Community of Workers; 3. Recognizing Teacher Quality; Identifying Three Aspects of Quality Teaching; Acts of Teaching; Results of Teaching; Professional Behaviors; Reviewing the Literature on Teaching Quality; Resources on Quality Acts of Teaching

Resources on Quality Results of TeachingResources on Quality Professional Behaviors; Summary of Resources; Teaching Quality Checklists; Checklist for Assessing Quality of Acts of Teaching Sample Form; Checklist for Assessing Quality of Results of Teaching Sample Form; Checklist for Assessing Quality of Professional Behaviors Sample Form; 4. Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Teachers; Evaluation Tools and Timing; Gathering Data for 360-Degree Feedback; Tools for Leader-Gathered Data; Tools for Teacher-Gathered Data; Tools to Gather Data from Other Invested Adults; Family Survey Sample Form

Coworker Survey Sample FormA Comprehensive Model for Teacher Evaluation; Step 1: Clarify Your Thinking about Teacher Evaluation; Step 2: Choose or Develop Tools for Gathering Data; Step 3: Conduct the Evaluation; Step 4: Analyze the Results; Step 5: Communicate the Results; Performance Review Summary and Plan Sample Form; Step 6: Conduct Follow-Up Reviews; Addressing Performance Problems; When to Address a Problem; How to Address a Problem; What to Do When Performance Problems Do Not Improve; Evaluation as Responsibility; 5. Tools and Techniques for Supporting Teachers

Supporting Professional Development and Professional Engagement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-60554-367-5