Performance Appraisals Made Easy: Tools for Evaluating Teachers and Support Staff

Neuausgabe 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7619-8895-3
Verlag: CORWIN PR INC

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 214 mm x 278 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

"The book provides a wealth of practical information that a practicing administrator or evaluator could use."
—Phil Silsby, Principal
Belleville West High School, Belleville, IL

"It gives you tools to use today and also walks you through a very clear process for easy implementation of performance appraisals for all staff."
—Robin Dexter, Assistant Professor
University of Wyoming

Clear, easy-to-follow steps for implementing effective performance appraisals!

Performance Appraisals Made Easy is a practical reference designed to help busy school administrators improve their staff's workplace performance.

This invaluable resource provides:

- A concise overview of the performance appraisal process

- Current, thorough job descriptions for most positions in today's schools

- Easy-to-use formative self-appraisal and summative performance appraisal tools

- Excellent coaching tools in a variety of key areas where problems can occur

All coaching tools are designed specifically to help close the skill gaps between current levels observed and desired performance. Within the book's unique and accessible format, school leaders will find useful and clear guidelines for effective performance appraisals and an abundance of stand-alone templates that can be copied and used immediately with staff members as needed. A CD-ROM is included.
CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible and not sold separately.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Margulus, Lisabeth S.

Melin, Jacquelyn Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Dedication
1. Introduction to the Performance Appraisal Process
2. How to Write Effective Job Descriptions
Job Description: Bus Driver

Job Description: Counselor
Job Description: Custodian
Job Description: Food Service Worker
Job Description: Media Specialist
Job Description: School Nurse
Job Description: Paraprofessional
Job Description: Secretary
Job Description: School Security Officer
Job Description: Teacher (Elementary)
Job Description: Teacher (Secondary)
Conclusion

Support Staff References
3. Teacher Performance Appraisal Coaching Tool(s)
Area 1: Building Community
Area 2: Designing Learning
Area 3: Managing Learning
Area 4: Communicating
Area 5: Growing Professionally
Conclusion
References
4. Support Staff Performance Appraisal Tools
Communication Skills
Conflict Management
Public Relations
Stress Management
Team Building
Time Management
5. Summative Performance Appraisals
Summative Performance Appraisal Self Assessment (Teachers)
Action Plan (Teacher)

Summative Performance Appraisal (Teacher)
Summative Performance Appraisal Self Assessment (Support Staff)
Action Plan (Support Staff)

Summative Performance Appraisal (Support Staff)

6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Melin, Jacquelyn Ann
Jacquelyn Melin is Affiliate Professor at Grand Valley State University, where she teaches classes in curriculum development and differentiated instruction. She also has served as the Director of the School of Education Student Information and Services Center. She was a public school educator in Rockford, Michigan for 32 1/2 years, serving as an elementary and middle school teacher, as teacher/coordinator of gifted and talented students and as an elementary principal.

Margulus, Lisabeth S.
Dr. Margulus has worked as a teacher and administrator at all grade levels of traditional and alternative K-12 schools. Her experience has included high-need, urban settings as well as suburban and rural schools.

Her area of specialty has been leadership training. This has included district wide consulting and, during a three year sabbatical from education, directing a strategically-linked, outcomes based professional development program at a health care center employing 2800 people. She has also worked extensively in the business and manufacturing arenas in the area of workplace performance.

Dr. Margulus frequently consults in the areas of Leadership Development, Workforce Performance and Accountability, and Parent Involvement and Accountability. Her approach always begins with an analysis of skills and a review of the client’s job description. She then reviews the skills analysis, and identifies the “gaps” between what is desired and what is current behavior/performance. Finally, she meets with the employee and his/her supervisor to provide a plan of development to enable the individual to become successful. A complete "buy-in" by both parties is strongly recommended for maximum growth.
In 1999 she joined the Educational Leadership Department of the School of Education at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI., where she is now Coordinator of the department. Dr. Margulus earned her Masters Degree in Staff Administration and her doctorate in Educational Leadership from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.