Empowering the Growth of Teachers Through Teacher Evaluations and Professional Development White Paper
Once you have intentionally designed your teacher evaluation framework, selected effective teacher evaluation software, and provided meaningful and relevant professional development for teachers, you are on your way to providing the learning environment your students and staff deserve.
iAspire is powerfully simple teacher evaluation and professional development software.
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Connecting Teacher Evaluations and Professional Development/Coaching
As research shows time and time again, simply evaluating teachers is not enough. We must engage and provide meaningful professional development to our teachers in order to grow and retain them.
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How To Choose the Right Teacher Evaluation Software
Once you are ready to make the change to digital observations and evaluations, or if you are unhappy your current system, there are many questions for you to consider.
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3 Tips for Principals Who Are Ready to Engage Their Teachers in Professional Growth
You’re not in Hollywood, so you can’t rely on flowery speeches to motivate your people to grow. It requires smart, intentional planning to achieve those goals. Fortunately, it’s a pretty simple formula for what it takes on your part as an administrator to help your teachers grow. Let’s take a look at 3 simple tips to help your teachers achieve lasting professional growth.
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Why You Need to Reconsider How You're Presenting Professional Development
We realize that most current professional development offerings aren’t working, and we’re here to change that. Let’s finally make a change to how we offer professional development and do what our teachers are desperately needing.
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3 Steps to Take Your Professional Development from Unengaging to Awesome
Are you tired of your professional development not resulting in the changes you expect? By thinking through these three points, you will be able to take your professional development from unengaging to awesome.
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1 Professional Development Secret to Unleashing the Power of Your Teachers
If you continuously learn yet plan your new ideas accordingly, your teachers will love you for the consistency, thoughtfulness, and dedication to sticking with your current plan.
Give yourself permission to say "no" to your own best-ever ideas.
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4 Professional Development Planning Mistakes That Drive Your Teachers Crazy
No matter how much you plan and how perfect you think your professional development is, be sure that you are keeping in mind your goals. If you are planning for growth of your teachers, let’s set them up for success from the beginning by following these four strategies.
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What Bill Gates Learned About Teacher Evaluations and Professional Development
The findings from the project were compiled independently by the Rand Corporation and came to 3 startling conclusions: 1) teacher evaluations did not lead to improved student achievement and 2) teacher evaluations did not lead to improved teacher effectiveness and 3) teacher evaluations did not improve the retention rate of effective teachers.
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