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Andover's Teaching and Departmental Reviews : Findings and Recommendations / Heather L. Schwartz, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Rebecca L. Wolfe, Dmitry Khodyakov, Emily Dao, Dianne Domenech-Burgos, Jeffrey C. Domina, Rajesh R. Mundra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Heather L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teachers--Rating of--Massachusetts--Andover.
- Teachers.
- Education, Secondary--Massachusetts--Andover.
- Education, Secondary.
- High school teaching--Massachusetts--Andover--Evaluation.
- High school teaching.
- Teacher-administrator relationships--Massachusetts--Andover.
- Teacher-administrator relationships.
- Private schools--Massachusetts--Andover--Administration.
- Private schools.
- Other Title:
- Andover's Teaching and Departmental Reviews
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2023
- Summary:
- To update its teaching and departmental review processes, Phillips Academy Andover, an independent boarding school in Massachusetts, commissioned RAND Corporation researchers to review the school's policies, conduct a literature review, interview other independent high schools, develop potential recommendations for revision of Andover's processes, and revise those recommendations after vetting them with Andover's faculty. This report summarizes their work. The report is intended primarily for Andover administrators and teachers to guide their revision of their teaching and departmental review processes, but it also provides relevant research that independent schools can use to inform their design of teaching and departmental review policies. To help readers understand how proposed changes may or may not work in different contexts, the report includes Andover teachers' reactions to initial potential recommendations, the authors' subsequent revisions to the recommendations based on teacher's feedback, and Andover administrators' reactions to the authors' final recommendations.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- ch. 2 Andover's Teaching and Departmental Reviews as Designed and Practiced
- Key Takeaways
- Overview of Andover's Teaching Evaluation Policy
- Detail About the Periodic Formal Teaching Reviews
- Detail About the Informal, Annual Teaching Reviews
- Detail About the School-Wide Student Survey
- Andover's Departmental Review Processes
- ch. 3 The Research About Teaching and Departmental Reviews as Applied to Independent Schools
- What's the Goal? Schools Should Have Coherent Instructional Systems to Promote Consistent Student Academic Experiences
- Academic Departments as the Engine of a Coherent Instructional System
- Teaching Evaluation Systems as a Part of a Larger, Coherent Instructional System
- Making a Coherent Instructional System Work in Practice
- ch. 4 Andover Faculty Views About Potential Policy Revisions
- Participation Rates
- Results from Rounds 1 and 2
- Results from Round 3
- Summary of the Recommendations Faculty Endorsed
- ch. 5 Recommendations
- Start a Multi-Year Process to Design a Coherent Instructional System
- Focus on Full Execution of Andover's Ten Guiding Principles for Teaching Reviews, and Simplify Some Processes to Reach That Goal
- ch. 6 Andover's Reactions to the Recommendations
- Student Competencies
- Teaching Reviews
- Department Reviews
- APPENDIXES
- A. Methods
- B. Andover's Statement of Purpose, Values, and Academic Vision.
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