This easy concept is somehow lost on many of us when it comes to retention, growth, and evaluation of the staff that we have already hired. This seems self-evident when we discuss hiring. If we were able to watch every candidate we considered hiring teach multiple times and watch how they interact with their peers, my belief is that we would have a much higher success rate in hiring. How often is the wrong person hired because thin-slicing anything leaves huge margins for error? Let me say this another way. Make Evaluation More Meaningful Tip #1: Understand the Pressure Proposition I have three core suggestions that will allow all of us (administrators and teachers) to make evaluation more meaningful. As we return, I implore us not to fall back into the old routine of this is the way we have always done it and to critically think through what we can do to come back better than we were before. Many districts throughout our country changed, ignored, or significantly amended the evaluation process and system during the pandemic. One such area that is near and dear to my heart (I know, I am weird) is teacher evaluation. First, what did the pandemic reveal to us about each other and the systems we operate within? Second, what systems and processes did we find we could essentially live without? And what are we going to do to either leave them behind or reimagine them to better serve our students and staff? The question is whether or not we will allow it to change us for the better.Īt a minimum, I hope that every educator has two lasting thought patterns that emerge from the past year-plus. I know that the past 12 months have been challenging. I like to say if it does not challenge us, it will not change us. If anything, last year seemed to be EVERYTHING. The best solution is to give 2-3 key goals for improvement.Praise heaping, rating justification, and point proving are three conference styles. See tips for how to make a pre-conference more meaningful.Reduce the teacher evaluation pressure by investing in more conversations and more time in classrooms.
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