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The Less-Stressful Evaluation – Standard 3: Know Your Stuff

The Less-Stressful Evaluation – Standard 3: Know Your Stuff

Hello again, I’m continuing the in my series of the Less Stressful Evaluation: Here we go with State Standard for Teachers number 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter for Student Learning Here are the subcategories: 3.1 Demonstrating knowledge of subject matter, academic content standards, and curriculum frameworks.   Just know your stuff. Find out what […]

The Less-Stressful Evaluation – Standard 2: Learning Environments

The Less-Stressful Evaluation – Standard 2: Learning Environments

Hello again, Here’s the next installment in my Less-Stressful Evaluation Series. In this post, I talk about the second state standard for teachers: Creating & Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning.   I know these posts are long, and I’m not covering the standards well enough, I know. I just hope that these posts will […]

The Less Stressful Evaluation – Are the Students Engaged?

The Less Stressful Evaluation – Are the Students Engaged?

Hello again,   This post is part of my The Less Stressful Evaluation series. As I stated in my last post, I just had my post-observation meeting with my principal, and it went fine. She had no complaints or concerns about the lesson that she observed. Whew!   Even though I’ve been through a million […]

The Teacher Evaluation – Professional Goals

The Teacher Evaluation – Professional Goals

I just received my official evaluation this year. This is where I sit down with my principal and go over what she saw when she came into my class and observed me as I gave a lesson. In my school, I am officially evaluated every other year. I used to get all nervous when the […]