This Digest focuses on the cultivation of a communication approach to that process.
Some teachers seem to like to be helped, and they expect to be told what to do as well.
For them, evaluations containing prescriptions of what to do are welcome. Beginning teachers, for example, seem to prefer models and direction to collaboration. However, many other practice teachers and inservice teachers have a keen interest in seeing how others teach. Observing others in order to get a different perspective on teaching is not the same as being told what to do by others. Many times the role of the principal is unclear in this observation process.