Professional Personnel Evaluation

Professional Personnel Evaluation

The purpose of teacher evaluation shall be as follows:

1. To provide each teacher with an appraisal of his/her professional strengths and weaknesses.

1. To aid each teacher in overcoming his weaknesses and capitalizing on his/her strengths.

1. To provide a basis for self-evaluation.

1. To bring about a closer working relationship between teachers, principals, and supervisors.

1. To advance the instructional program through the improvement on the part of staff members of:

• 1. Instructional skills and classroom management

  2. Personal characteristics

  3. Professional attitudes and growth

  4. Relationship with others.

1. To provide a basis for administrative decisions regarding reemployment, offering both protection to teachers against arbitrary decisions and protection to pupils against ineffective teaching.

Evaluation procedures shall be developed by the Superintendent and other members

of the administrative staff in a cooperative endeavor with teaching personnel.  Evaluation procedures shall implement the following Board requirements:

1. All evaluations will be in writing.  An evaluation instrument applying to all teachers shall be used in official evaluations.

1. All professional personnel shall receive copies of the evaluative instrument.

1. Each teacher’s principal or assistant principal shall be his/her official evaluator; however, other central office supervisors may be asked to assist.

1. An evaluation of each tenured teacher shall be made at least once a year, and an evaluation of each non-tenured teacher shall be made more frequently.

1. The evaluation shall be reviewed and signed by the teacher with the evaluator and shall be treated as confidential material.  Dates of conferences shall be part of the official record. 

1. A principal shall request the services of a central office supervisor for a further evaluation of the teacher’s performance whenever results of an evaluation indicate that reappointment of a teacher is in doubt.

1. Evaluations shall be completed in time for the Board to receive results at the time reappointments are made for the ensuing school year and in sufficient time for the staff member to be duly advised if his/her dismissal will be recommended.

Adopted:  July 1976

Clay County Board of Education