Teacher Self-Supervision: Why teacher evaluation has failed and what we can do about it
Having participated in the 1st four days of Powell's Cognitive Coaching many of the messages in this book are...
Many, perhaps even most schools, are not reaching their potential to be places of collective learning. The authors believe that one of the greatest impediments to realizing this vision is the deleterious effect of traditional systems of teacher evaluation. Rather than infantilizing teachers, we need to empower them.Traditional forms of teacher evaluation have failed. They are riddled with negative expectations about teachers and what motivates them. Taken together, these underlying assumptions form a pernicious cloud of counterproductive expectations that many teachers will "live down to". Inadvertently, the traditional system of teacher evaluation has created a vicious cycle of "self-sealing logic."It is now time for teachers to reclaim their profession, the process of which involves a relentless focus on adult learning: professional learning that...
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Will change schoolsThis book had answers to many of my questions about teach professional learning. It will change how we conduct teacher training and teacher evaluation. Amazing. Having participated in the 1st four days of Powell's Cognitive Coaching many of the messages in this book are familiar to me. I'd like to see a more clear cut set of directives for a school wishing to switch to this type of supervision. I thought many of the pieces were there, but maybe not ordered in a way to help a team of administrators...
