Can Principals Promote Teacher Development as Evaluators? A Case Study of Principals' Views and Experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

New teacher evaluation systems have expanded the role of principals as instructional leaders, but little is known about principals' ability to promote teacher development through the evaluation process. We conducted a case study of principals' perspectives on evaluation and their experiences implementing observation and feedback cycles to better understand whether principals feel as though they are able to promote teacher development as evaluators.

Research methods

We conducted interviews with a stratified random sample of 24 principals in an urban district that recently implemented major reforms to its teacher evaluation system. We analyzed these interviews by drafting thematic summaries, coding interview transcripts, creating data-analytic matrices, and writing ana

SUBMITTER: Kraft MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513173 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature