1. Emphasize the function of teacher
evaluation to seek out, document, and acknowledge the good teaching
that already exists.
2. Evaluate to reassure teachers
and audiences (parents, legislators) that good work is going
on.
3. Place the teacher at the center
of evaluation activity.
4. Use more than one person to judge
teacher quality and performance.
5. Limit administrator judgment role.
6. Use multiple data sources
to inform judgments about teachers.
7. Use variable data sources
to inform judgments about teachers.
8. Spend the extensive time and other
resources needed to recognize good teaching.
9. Correctly use research on teacher
evaluation; examine "research based" claims.
10 Attend to the sociology of teacher
evaluation.
11. Use the results of teacher evaluation
to encourage personal professional dossier building.