Personnel Priorities in Schools Today: Hiring, Supervising, and Evaluating Teachers

by Thomas A. Kersten, Margaret Clauson director of human resources, Wilmette (IL) Public Schools District 39

Overview

Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to the school, student, and their personal success than the hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers. The research evidence is clear. Excellent teachers make the difference in how well students achieve and how much schools improve. Personnel Priorities in Schools Today: Hiring, Supervising, and Evaluating Teachers, explores how to hire the best teachers available. Key features of this book include:

• Practical strategies to improve how you hire, supervise, and evaluate teachers
• Concrete examples that illustrate what successful administrators do to enhance their success
• Valuable insights into personnel issues building-level administrators regularly face
• Valuable advice from an experienced superintendent and assistant superintendent
• Strategies for supporting teachers to perform at their best
• Tips for using the evaluation process to raise performance expectations
• Advice on how to harness the power of a strong administrative team

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475804423
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/26/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	114
Sales rank:	558,058
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Thomas A. Kersten is associate professor emeritus in Educational Leadership at Roosevelt University in Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois. He has twenty-eight years of public school administrative experience in Illinois including eleven as superintendent. He is also the author of Stepping into Administration: How to Succeed in Making the move and Moving into the Superintendency: How to Succeed in Making the Transition.

Margaret E. Clauson is assistant superintendent in Wilmette, Illinois. She has served as an Illinois educator for over twenty years as a teacher, assistant principal, middle school principal, Administrator for Human Resources, and Assistant Superintendent. She has written and presented on a variety of leadership topics.

Table of Contents

Preface

Forward

Acknowledgments

1 Understanding the Historical Basis of Teacher Supervision and Evaluation

2 Recruiting and Selecting Outstanding Teachers

3 Fostering Novice Teacher Success

4 Developing a Mentoring Program

5 Raising the Supervision Bar

6 Evaluating for Excellence

7 Functioning as a Collaborative Administrative Team Member


Closing Thoughts

References

About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

Personnel Priorities: Hiring, supervising, and Evaluating Teachers provides practical information that every school administrator should understand. The authors provide a very useful framework that can be used to design a highly effective system for hiring, supervising and evaluating teachers. Kersten and Clauson provide important explicit foundational principles while offering numerous useful suggestions for best practices This book is thoughtful and should be a part of every school administrator's literary collection.

Heather Glowacki

Personnel Priorities in Schools Today is an essential resource for school administrators who want to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Kersten and Clauson blend the best of research and experience to provide effective and practical approaches for improving personnel practices. The book encourages administrators to rethink the status quo. I recommend it especially for administrative teams interested in encouraging collaboration and team-based personnel decisions.

Trisha Kocanda

Personnel Priorities in Schools Today: Hiring, Supervising, and Evaluating Teachers is a must read for new building administrator. Hiring the best people is a top priority for every building principal; and Kersten and Clauson provide a very useful step-by-step guide from recruiting and building your applicant pool all the way through mentoring your new hires for success. The book is a quick read and gives helpful advice on how to navigate the day-to-day principal responsibilities while keeping a focus on personnel priorities.

Renee Zoladz