Teacher Appraisal

IB School Leadership: Teacher Appraisal

Teacher appraisal is a thorny issue for a number of reasons. If we are going to evaluate teachers, we need to know what we are looking for.“Current approaches to assessing teacher effectiveness aren’t working. The instruments used for observation are overly complicated, and training for observers is often inadequate. Furthermore, the challenges associated with the use of student achievement data, and the political...


