Importance Of Teacher Evaluation

Every instructor should recognize the importance of student performance in the learning process. Early in a lesson that is to include demonstration and performance, the instructor should identify the most important learning outcomes. Next, explain and demonstrate the steps involved in performing the skill being taught. Then, allow students time to practice each step, so they can increase their ability to perform the skill.

4. Teacher Evaluation Procedures

Teacher evaluation requires the establishment of reference standards and evaluation criteria to allow proper assessments of performance to be made. In particular, a definition of what good teaching is needs to be developed. Performance measurement also calls for a judicious choice of instruments

tenured vs. contract teachers), stage of the career (e.g. beginner vs. experienced), level of education (e.g. primary vs. secondary education), and type of education (e.g. general programmes, vocational programmes of adult education).

 Character of

externally-driven teacher evaluation

Teacher evaluation which is mostly internal to the school has the advantage of giving the school ownership of the evaluation processes and ensuring that all aspects are carefully considered by the school. It also ensures that the school context is taken into account the individual teacher is evaluated against reference standards with criteria that account for her school objectives and socio-educational background. However, in systems with little maturity of teacher evaluation, it might have the disadvantage that schools have little expertise in devising evaluation instruments and assessing teaching performance.

5. Use of Evaluation Results

Making the best use of teacher evaluation results raises a number of challenges such as feeding information on performance back to those who deliver educational services, most notably teachers and school principals; developing mechanisms for the improvement of teaching practices, notably teacher professional development; establishing rewards, support systems and consequences that flow from evaluation results; and developing the channels which ensure that information generated by teacher evaluation is used for educational policy development. These challenges highlight the importance of knowledge management in any teacher evaluation