Improving and maintaining staff performance is an important and often difficult responsibility for school leaders and senior teachers. Offering guidance on diagnosing ineffectiveness, supporting ineffective teachers, and procedures when support isn′t enough, this practical book is designed to help those teachers who manage others.
It will help the reader to understand what under-performance is, and to develop a whole school approach to monitoring, supporting and restoring teacher performance. There is also advice on self-help and development for the teachers themselves.
This is an essential one-stop reference text for every senior teacher in primary and secondary schools.
Tabella dei contenuti
The challenge to schools posed by under-performing teachers
Diagnosing teachers′ under-performance
Becoming more effective
Strategies for self-help
Supporting the under-performing teacher
Using performance management to develop teacher performance
Meeting the needs of teachers using a whole-school approach to CPD
Recruiting and supporting effective teachers
Circa l’autore
Dr Jeff Jones has been a senior consultant and head of training and consultancy unit at the Centre for British Teachers Cf BT in Reading since 1998, and is the well known author of such books as Monitoring and Evaluation for School Improvement, (2000), and Performance Management for School Improvement (2001)