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Teachers Can Be Fired!: The Quest for Quality »

Authors: Hans Andrews
ISBN-13: 9780812692815, ISBN-10: 0812692810
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Hans Andrews

Book Synopsis

What if excellent teaching were guaranteed in every classroom? Teachers Can Be Fired! is an essential guide for anyone who is serious about making that possibility a reality. Dr. Andrews explains how the Total Quality Management movement, so successful in business and industry, can be applied to the most important element in the schools—teachers. He argues persuasively for heavy reliance on supervisory/administrative evaluation practices as the most legally defensible and helpful system.

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Pepys (1633-1703) was clerk of the English Navy Board during the Second Dutch War, 1665-67, and his previously unpublished journals for the period 1664 to 1672 provide one of the fullest accounts of the war. In addition to his journal are here presented documents relating to the Brooke House Commission, established in 1667 to scrutinize the Navy Board's management of the war finances, including Pepys' defense of the board and his own actions. Well cross-referenced and annotated. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Getting There from Here: Good and Bad Evaluation Methods	1
2	Shortcomings of Student and Peer Evaluation Systems	17
3	Developing Faculty Union Support for Administrative Evaluation	33
4	Defining Effective Teaching and Setting Quality Standards	43
5	Defining Effective Evaluators and Developing the Evaluation Process	61
6	Converting Quality Standards into an Evaluation Tool	75
7	Implementing the Evaluation Process: From Formative to Summative Evaluation	91
8	Recognition: Who Wants It? Who Needs It?	107
9	Objectives, Outcomes, and Types of Merit Recognition Plans	123
10	Progressive Remediation as Formative Evaluation	137
11	Moving Beyond 'Lip Service' in Post-Tenure Evaluation	151
12	Non-Tenured and Tenured Faculty Terminations	161
13	The Dismissal of a Tenured Instructor	179
14	Part-Time Faculty: Major Growth and Major Neglect	189
15	The Governing Boards: Where Do They Fit In?	197
16	Conclusion: Quality Teaching in Every Classroom	215
	Appendix A: Legal Cases in Dismissals of Faculty	219
	Appendix B: Board Policy - Evaluation of Faculty, Assistants to Instruction, and Counselors: Tenured, Non-Tenured, and Part-Time	237
	Appendix C: Tenured Evaluation Procedures	239
	Appendix D: Non-Tenured Evaluation Procedures	243
	Bibliography	247
	Index	263

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Education & Teaching

Academic Administration

Academic Evaluation
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