0701+Supervision

On-Line Activity: Describe and critique the teacher assessment instrument used in your school or district. What is the theoretical orientation of the instrument? ** How would you describe the overall process of teacher evaluation in your school or district?**
 * July 1 Glickman, Ch. 14 & 15 **
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 *  Is it summative or formative? How would you evaluate the effectiveness of the ****instrument in achieving its stated purpose?


 * Submit your responses by clicking on the Discussion tab above**.

Because of the hybrid format of this course, it has taken awhile to build up a satisfying amount of momentum. But with this round of postings, I think we have arrived at a point where we have begun to critically examine the supervisory environment in our schools and school districts. It is less complicated for me to take a critical approach because I neither work in a P-12 school nor have any contractural obligations that may be jeopardized by asking inappropriate questions or critiquing current policies and practices. I appreciate the sensitivity of the things I am asking you to discuss and have no interest in putting anyone at risk. With the responses this week, I feel for the first time that we are actually evidencing real growth in our exploration of supervision.

Your responses are unanimous in concluding that the GTEP, with its component GTOI and GTDRI, is an ineffective supervisory instrument. Because everyone is more or less in agreement on this point, I think it will be more effective to discuss your comments in class tomorrow as one of our group activities. If I responded individually as I have done in the past, I would end up saying something similar to each of you and I do not see much use in that.

So for tomorrow, the tentative agenda will be to discuss:

1) Quantitative and qualitative observational techniques; 2) Analysis of GTEP (i.e., GTOI and GTDRI); 3) The relative merits of whole school (or whole program) evaluation versus individual evaluation.

See everyone tomorrow.

EF