Are Teachers Playing "Statue" in the Classroom?

Abstract

Principals, this author says, must allow teachers to appraise themselves. Introducing teachers to observation systems and inviting them to par ticipate will give them the impetus to improve their teaching through increased self-knowledge.

Toward Effective Supervision of Classroom Instruction

“…Along with this, there has been an increase in the use of videotaping equipment, audiotapes, systematized observational methodology such as the Flander's Interactional Analysis, the Teacher Self-Appraisal Observation System, and the Teacher Image Questionnaire. Bushman (1974) offers a combination of a group of these. All of the various techniques are designed to enable the teacher to engage in meaningful self-evaluation or to share in creating an evaluation of what transpires in his classroom with supervisors and/or colleagues in order to facilitate his own growth as a professional.…”