District Level Professional Development and Teacher Evaluation

Catalog description

This course considers the importance and difficulty of motivating educators to seek life long personal improvement as reflective professional practitioners through high quality professional development and how the system of evaluation can incorporate and integrate this type of development. Strategies of adult motivation and techniques of adult behavioral change are studied. Current systems of staff evaluation are analyzed and specific evaluative techniques and methods are practiced using the MO New Evaluation System Model. Offered annually.