Christopher Gareis & James Stronge 
Handbook on Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation and Professional Development [EPUB ebook] 

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.