Teacher evaluation

Teacher evaluation Teacher’s evaluation is a very important tool to help a teacher improve and become a better educator through feedback and motivation. Having highly-skilled, committed and motivated teachers is to the benefit of all students, by improving their learning experiences. Developing and maintaining skills, is part of a career-long process. This process involves all teachers engaging in self-evaluation and in being career-long learners. Some ideas for a self-evaluation could be to keep a journal and have notes after you finish a class. See if the students were motivated and engaged. What motivated the students the best?. This helps not to forget little details about the class. Reflecting is another very useful tool by writing teacher’s own concern about the class. Thinking about other strategies or resources that the teacher could have used to support student learning. Reflecting on topics you could spend more time or less. Collecting feedback from students at least twice a year is another important tool a teacher can use for self-evaluation. I would do it at midterm because it allows immediate adjustments in response to students’ difficulties or suggestions and it allows the students who made the suggestions to benefit from the adjustments. On the other hand for me a colleague’s observation can be very useful. This type of observation can be a very useful source of input on reading lists, course handbooks and practices related to assessing and giving feedback to students. Simply giving a colleague a copy of one of these course materials and getting their feedback can be very useful. Formal evaluation by the administrators is more formal. It involves goal setting, mid-year review, and final evaluation components. To assist with the processes of setting goals, assessing performance, and demonstrating growth. The focus of the observation is not what teacher teaches but what the students learn. How does the teacher know that students will remember what they just learned, if the teacher Checks for Understanding using formative assessment often. Does the teacher give and get immediate feedback, otherwise students and teachers will not remember. Good and defined instructional practices for students who need a more structured learning environment. Since I teach Elementary Spanish is also very important for the Principal to see a good display of visuals of cultural related materials in the target language. At ACS teachers have formal observations once a year. The class is videotaped to be watched at a later time. The teacher will have a post observation conference for feedback and new ideas to improve his/her teaching. This type of observation is very practical for me because it releases the stress a formal observation brings. To me this observation helps me reflect in my teaching strategies, keep on doing what is working best, and improve whatever can be improved more.