This hands-on guide provides you with dozens of ready-to-use methods and techniques for creating and implementing a successful teacher evaluation program-- a program that encourages greater teacher involvement, improves morale, and has a positive impact on the entire instructional process. Designed so it can be easily tailored to meet your school's local goals, this program helps even your best teachers focus in on their weak areas. At the same time, it enables you to recognize areas of performance that are particularly noteworthy. From developing evaluation criteria to carrying out the actual evaluation, this book shows you step-by-step:

• How to use a peer observer system to increase participation and cooperation in the evaluation program.
• How to develop sensitive, tactful conferencing skills that will enable you to accomplish the goals of the evaluation conference in a direct, yet relaxed manner.
• How to develop a successful differentiated pay system, founded on performance, which will encourage growth, creativity, and change.
• How to handle some of the most difficult aspects of evaluation (teacher confrontation, underachiever assistance, and employee termination) in the most diplomatic and pain-free way possible.

You'll find this to be an invaluable guide to developing an evaluation system that helps motivate teachers, improves your staff's performance, and enhances the quality of instruction for your students.