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Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development

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 Culturally relevant approaches to teacher assessment
Teacher assessments could do a better job of identifying the strengths of teachers of color, strengths that can be translated into real classroom practices that meet the needs of urban students of color.

Teacher evaluation and professional development
Teacher evaluation rarley appears to advance learning for senior teachers; evaluations may present an inaccurate view of teacher performance.

Best Practices in Hiring and Evaluation
Of all the challenges facing principals, maybe the most important are finding and then keeping the best possible teachers in the classrooms. Principals must be strategic in both hiring and managing teaching talent. WCER researcher Steven Kimball discusses the process by which a principal can become a strategic talent manager.

Assessing Teaching Practice
Done well, evaluation of teacher performance has the potential to improve student achievement. Done indifferently, it has the potential to stagnate student achievement. Too often, teachers are evaluated by a single administrator, with minimal training, who rates the teacher satisfactory or unsatisfactory, based on a single classroom observation.