Title: Teachers can be fired! : the quest for quality : a handbook for practitioners in elementary, middle, and secondary schools and community colleges /
Authors: Andrews, Hans A.
Publisher: Catfeet Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Teachers Rating of United States Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Teachers Dismissal of United States Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Community college teachers Rating of United States Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Community college teachers Dismissal of United States Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Lehrerbeurteilung.; USA.
Abstract: What if excellent teaching were guaranteed in every classroom? Teachers Can Be Fired! is an essential guide for anyone who is serious about making that possibility a reality. Dr. Andrews explains how the Total Quality Management movement, so successful in business and industry, can be applied to the most important element in the schools-teachers. He argues persuasively for heavy reliance on supervisory/administrative evaluation practices as the most legally defensible and helpful system.
Contents: Getting there from here: Good and bad evaluation methods -- Shortcomings of student and peer evaluation systems -- Developing faculty union support for administrative evaluation -- Defining effective teaching and setting quality standards -- Defining effective evaluators and developing the evaluation process -- Converting quality standards into an evaluation tool -- Implementing the evaluation process: From formative to summative evaluation -- Recognition: Who wants is? Who needs it? -- Objectives, outcomes, and types of merit recognition plans -- Progressive remediation as formative evaluation -- Moving beyond 'lip service' in post-tenure evaluation -- Non-tenured and tenured faculty terminations -- The dismissal of a tenured instructor -- Part-time faculty: major growth and major neglect -- The governing boards: Where do they fit in? -- Quality teaching in every classroom