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Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement Plans-Right Now!!: The Principal's Time-Saving Reference Guide

Name: Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement Plans-Right Now!!: The Principal's Time-Saving Reference Guide
Author: Cornelius L. Barker
ISBN: 9781412963732

by Cornelius L. Barker, Claudette J. Searchwell

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Overview

This edition features a comprehensive annual performance review package, added case studies, 65 revised proficiency categories, an interactive CD-ROM, vocabulary aids, and a sample improvement plan.

Synopsis

This guide is your key to producing fast, focused, and informative evaluations for your staff. Use the evaluation organizer to help you turn your observations into meaningful evaluation and assessment of your teachers' performance. Convey what you observe without agonizing over adjectives. CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible. CD-ROM is not sold separately.

About the Author, Cornelius L. Barker

Claudette J. Searchwell is a member of the adjunct staff at Kean University, Union, New Jersey, serving as a clinical supervisor of pre-professional student teachers and professional senior interns. She is also a retired elementary school principal who enjoyed a 34-year career in the public schools. Her service in the field of education included posts as classroom teacher, assistant director of a federally funded basic skills program, coordinator of citywide afterschool and summer programs, assistant principal, and principal.

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Editorials

James Burke

“This book gives me a time-saving method for keeping an ongoing record of my dialogue with my staff about our vision for the school and our individual professional goals. It sets a standard for a practical approach that enables me to help my staff in their instructional performance. The authors are to be commended!”

Donald Howard

“The second edition has definitely outdone the first! This book is an essential tool. It helps me keep current and gives my teachers a road map for how they can improve.”

Larry Odom

"This book allows me to be a part of the improvement process with my teachers. It is a compendium of ideas, concepts, and theory, and the user-friendly CD-ROM has saved me time in the preparation of my reports.”

Christine Polychronis

"I have been teaching for over 30 years, and I finally have materialin onebook that gives me an opportunity to know the expectations of my overall instructional progress."

Luz Aurora Streater

“I am a beginning teacher, and by using this book, my principal and I have an opportunity to meet anddiscuss what is needed in my growth as an educator."

James J. Jacobson

"This book gives me confidence knowing that I have a ready-reference to help my staff when they need it. My staff feels that they can approach mefor tangible advice that will contribute to their success."

Michael Fisher

"This book is a must for the busy administrator who wants to createwell-written teacher improvement plans that will shape authentic andindividualized professional development in their staff, ultimatelyaffecting achievement in their students as well."

Patrick Clark

"Concise, thorough, and extremely informative."

Carol Kaiser

"A breath of fresh air for the veteran administrator. It provides a whole new storehouse of ideas and motivates one to revive the persona of an Educational Leader."