EDT 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clinical Supervision
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Want teachers to perform at their best to challenge the students and also to become a better teacher. At first, not much was known about how to be a teacher. Clergy were the ones that hired and fired teachers because they were the most educated ones. Feedback was varied because there weren"t any concrete guidelines for teaching. Need complex feedback because it is a complex profession. Hunter lesson model, used to tell what a good teacher is in their content teaching. 5 phases of supervision created the way dialogue should occur in an evaluation. Teacher evals not consistent from state to state. 41 states require evaluations based on student-achievement data. Controversy over teacher evaluation based on student test scores. Too much focus on student data and test scores. Test scores vary from year to year. Results of observation should be a narrative not a number. Need more communication and time for reflection.