Sentences with phrase «teaching against a principal»

Finally, video evidence would level the playing field if a teacher ever has to defend their teaching against a principal's written notes at a dismissal hearing — a teacher's video vs. an observer's written notes.

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And it turns out that, even after policies were changed, principals still were not sure what poor teaching looked like, still did not want to upset their staffs, and still did not think giving a negative evaluation was worth the ensuing tension and hassle — especially given contractual complications and doubts that superintendents would back up personnel actions against low - rated teachers.

Barth points to five obstacles: administrator resistance, the taboo in teaching against elevating oneself higher than one's peers, the fact that teachers» plates are full, the adversarial relationship that often exists between principals and teachers, and the new push to bring business model thinking into schools.

Against this backdrop, principals understandably devoted substantial resources, including the time of their instructional coaches, to collating student test data, designing intervention systems for low - performing students, and asking those whose content knowledge they trusted most (school - hired coaches) to teach or tutor students.