Handbook on Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation and Professional Development

This book and downloadable resources show school leaders how to develop teacher portfolios and put them into action. They will provide confidence and credibility as you engage in:

- "high stakes" summative evaluations

- initial hiring, tenure, and other key personnel decisions

- fostering a school culture which encourages high levels of performance

This book and downloadable resources provide a reliable and easy way for teachers to:

- collect and analyze data about their effectiveness

- monitor and improve their own performance

- improve student learning

Adopting the templates in this book and downloadable resources will enable you to define:

- standards which describe actual duties and activities of teachers

- behaviors which indicate the quality of teaching

- "artifacts" which provide evidence of teaching and learning

- scoring rubrics which assist in objective evaluation

The downloadable resources, contain easy-to-use templates of performance assessment rubrics, feedback forms, and other documents to help you organize & implement Teacher Portfolios in your school.