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

Cornelius L. Barker, Claudette J. Searchwell

Corwin Press, 2001 - Education - 91 pages

This book is a ready-reference guide that will allow the busy administrator to compose detailed year-end improvement plans and professional improvement plans in half the time.

Forms are provided which allow administrators to:

· Identify demonstrated strengths in teaching performance

· Pinpoint areas requiring improvement

· Provide salient suggestions for strengthening areas of weakness and improving performance

· Utilize a coded method of recording selected benchmark areas

· Complete year-end teacher improvement plans quickly and easily

· Review the achievements made by teachers during the previous year

· Chart ongoing progress as teachers work toward meeting objectives

In the ever-evolving classroom, there should be a continuous cycle of providing quality instruction, assessing results, and reconfiguring instructional techniques in order to maximize student achievement. Reflective analysis of personal and professional practices, with the resultant outcomes, is essential to reaching sound objectives. Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement Plans - Right Now!! provides all the tools principals need to efficiently and effectively promote teachers′ professional growth: from assessment to improvement to charting progress.

Contents

• Building Blocks of the Improvement Plan: 9
• Reproducible Forms: 49
• Using the Improvement Plan Progress Report: 59
• The Document in Action: 67

About the author

Cornelius L. Barker is a much sought-after lecturer for school and community groups on the subject of current cognitive and behavioral trends exhibited by today’s youth. His career in education has spanned more than 25 years in the capacity of classroom teacher and administrator on both the elementary and secondary levels. Claudette J. Searchwell is a retired elementary school principal whose career spanned has 34 years in the public schools. Her service in the field of education includes posts as classroom teacher, assistant principal and principal, assistant director of a federal basic skills program, and coordinator of citywide afterschool and summer programs. Her post-retirement position was that of adjunct professor at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where she served as supervisor of pre-certification students engaged in their senior internship. Claudette is currently an education contributor to a charter school.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Writing Year-End Teacher Improvement Plans-Right Now!!: The Principal's Time-Saving Reference Guide; Writing Year-end Teacher Improvement Plans--right Now!: The Principal's Time-saving Reference Guide, Claudette J. Searchwell
• Authors: Cornelius L. Barker, Claudette J. Searchwell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Corwin Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0761978011, 9780761978015
• Length: 91 pages
• Subjects: Education / Administration / General; Education / Evaluation & Assessment; Education / Professional Development; Education / Teaching / General