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The Administrative Role in Teacher Competency.
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The authors conducted interviews with 30 elementary school principals in a large urban school system, interviews and observations of 19 borderline competent teachers, and review of principals' teacher evaluation records, and five states of coping with teachers' educational mistakes emerged: deployment-enlisting the teachers' colleagues to watch over him or her and report back to the principal on the teacher's behavior; detente-bringing the troubled teacher within the society of peers and rallying forces to help solve his or her problems; determination-deciding that the range of the teachers's deviations exceeds the boundaries of normative behavior and thereAbstract:
As managers of teachers, principals must cope with a variety of educational mistakes in their schools. These cumulative mistakes lead to a state of borderline competency in the teacher. From interviews with 30 elementary school principals in a large urban school system, interviews and observations of 19 borderline competent teachers, and review of principals' teacher evaluation records, five states of coping with teachers' educational mistakes emerged: (1) deployment-enlisting the teachers' colleagues to watch over him or her and report back to the principal on the teacher's behavior; (2) detente-bringing the troubled teacher within the society of peers and rallying forces to help solve his or her problems; (3) determination-deciding that the range of the teacher's deviations exceeds the boundaries of normative behavior and there is cause for dismissal; (4) evaluation-assigning an unsatisfactory efficiency rating with extensive documentation and recordkeeping for teachers who have been identified as borderline competent; and (5) formal dismissal-taking action to remove a teacher from the school.read more
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Managing the incompetent teacher
Edwin M. Bridges,Barry Groves +1 more
TL;DR: The first edition of Managing the Incompetent Teacher, published in 1984, was to become during the next five years the best-selling monograph of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management.
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Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Incompetence and Barriers to the Dismissal Process.
TL;DR: This paper found that teachers rated classroom behaviors to be the most important factors towards a definition of professional incompetence, and the teachers involved also rated the commonness of strategies used with incompetent teachers, placing dismissal among the least common actions taken by administrators.
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School Leaders’ Perceptions About Incompetent Teachers: Implications for Supervision and Evaluation
TL;DR: This paper explored Wyoming school leaders' perceptions about the traits of incompetent teachers, strategies used to work with incompetent teachers and the barriers to their dismissal, and found that most of the teachers who were found to be ineffective were female.
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Just Caring? Supervisors Talk about Working with Incompetent Teachers.
Warren Phillips,Beth Young +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that some supervisors' accounts suggested a blend of caring and justice while others did not, and they hope this analysis invites reflection on what constitutes ethical supervisory practice in a difficult and morally perplexing area of administrative leadership.
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Effective teaching competencies - a compilation of changing expectations from students and institutions.
Irameet Kaur,Charu Shri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to analyse the key competencies of a teacher as viewed by the students and by the institution, and the statistical technique of factor analysis was applied to segregate the various competencies listed.
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