Handout 11
Focus 3: Teachers
Questions
- How do we know that our teachers possess knowledge and a variety of effective pedagogical skills in their subject areas so that they can accommodate different student learning needs?
- How do our teachers' qualifications compare with those of teachers in similar school systems or in systems that we would like to emulate?
- To raise the quality of teaching in our district, what actions do the school system and the school board need to take? What other changes will need to take place?
- Beyond workshops, what kinds of professional development opportunities are available to our teachers? Are they adequate?
- How are our teachers assigned within the system? For example, do we assign our new teachers or our most experienced teachers to the most challenging students and to the most challenging schools?
- Do teachers know the academic goals of our school system and were they involved in setting the goals? How do we know?
- Do teachers believe that they have adequate authority, time, resources, information, and tools to make decisions, design curriculum, and plan lessons?
- What mechanisms do we have to determine whether teachers are helping students achieve the district's academic goals?
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