Supporting Teacher Development: New Skills for Principals in Supervision and Evaluation, Paperback

This text provides opportunities for administrators to use evaluation processes more effectively to support teacher development. Through the use of practice scenarios and communication exercises, principals can develop a more supportive, relational process for teacher evaluation. Too often principals provide evaluation feedback in ways that do not resonate with teachers. This text examines the communicative process and provides practice and skill-building opportunities that will enable principals to develop supportive environments that help teachers continue to grow.

Debra Eckerman Pitton, Ph.D., has been a middle and high school language arts teacher, an elected school board member and school administrator. Currently she serves as Chair and teaches in the Education Department at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, where she works with beginning teaches and supports mentoring and induction programs for educators.