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Evaluating and supporting early childhood teachers / Angèle Sancho Passe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, [2015]Description: xi, 154 pages ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781605543666
  • 1605543667
Subject(s):
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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 Workers -- Enhance 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 Collaboration -- Communicating 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 Teaching -- Resources 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 Form -- A 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 -- Pay Attention to Teachers' Training in Relation to Data -- Educate Yourself on Best Practices -- Show Interest in What Teachers Learn in Training -- Post-Training Survey Sample Form -- Facilitate Teachers' Involvement in Professional Associations -- Nurturing a Reflective Practice -- Coaching -- Resources for Coaching -- Rules for Coaching -- Use Data for Coaching -- The Coaching Protocol: Four Steps -- Create a Coaching Plan -- Coaching Plan Sample Form -- Facilitating Mentoring Relationships between Teachers -- Mentoring Agreement Sample Form -- Counseling -- Empowering Teachers to Support All Learners -- Keeping Morale Positive -- 6. Differentiating Support -- The Early Childhood Education Workforce -- Skill Level -- Stages of Skill Development: Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Expert -- Teachers' Skill Awareness -- Barriers to Skill Development -- Formal Education -- Experience -- Age/Generation -- Individual Dispositions and Learning Styles -- Cultural Differences -- Asking Teachers What They Need -- Find Out What Teachers Need from the Beginning -- Assess Overall Job Satisfaction -- New Teacher Intake Sample Form -- Job Satisfaction Survey Sample Form -- A Need for Differentiated Support -- 7. Making a Plan for Evaluating and Supporting Teachers -- Ready to Plan -- Assess the Situation in Your Setting -- Decide Which Principles Are Most Urgent for You -- Write SMART Goals -- Implement Your Plan -- Evaluate Your Plan -- Taking Small Steps -- Recognizing Evaluation and Support as a Good Time Investment.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 372.11 P287 Available 33111008500726
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

There's a lot of conversation in the early childhood community on evaluating teachers to improve their performance. Raising the quality of early care and education is a priority for policymakers and practitioners on local, state, and federal levels. As a result, much attention is being focused on early childhood educators to ensure that they do a good--and better--job teaching young children. This book provides accessible information, guidance, techniques, and tools to aid directors, coaches, principals, and others leaders as they evaluate and support teachers in a way that encourages and enables them to do their best work with children.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: 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 Workers -- Enhance 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 Collaboration -- Communicating 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 Teaching -- Resources 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 Form -- A 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 -- Pay Attention to Teachers' Training in Relation to Data -- Educate Yourself on Best Practices -- Show Interest in What Teachers Learn in Training -- Post-Training Survey Sample Form -- Facilitate Teachers' Involvement in Professional Associations -- Nurturing a Reflective Practice -- Coaching -- Resources for Coaching -- Rules for Coaching -- Use Data for Coaching -- The Coaching Protocol: Four Steps -- Create a Coaching Plan -- Coaching Plan Sample Form -- Facilitating Mentoring Relationships between Teachers -- Mentoring Agreement Sample Form -- Counseling -- Empowering Teachers to Support All Learners -- Keeping Morale Positive -- 6. Differentiating Support -- The Early Childhood Education Workforce -- Skill Level -- Stages of Skill Development: Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Expert -- Teachers' Skill Awareness -- Barriers to Skill Development -- Formal Education -- Experience -- Age/Generation -- Individual Dispositions and Learning Styles -- Cultural Differences -- Asking Teachers What They Need -- Find Out What Teachers Need from the Beginning -- Assess Overall Job Satisfaction -- New Teacher Intake Sample Form -- Job Satisfaction Survey Sample Form -- A Need for Differentiated Support -- 7. Making a Plan for Evaluating and Supporting Teachers -- Ready to Plan -- Assess the Situation in Your Setting -- Decide Which Principles Are Most Urgent for You -- Write SMART Goals -- Implement Your Plan -- Evaluate Your Plan -- Taking Small Steps -- Recognizing Evaluation and Support as a Good Time Investment.

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