Valuing Teachers’ Work

Author(s): Lawrence Ingvarson, Rod Chadbourne (eds)

Publisher: ACER, 1994

Significant developments in teacher evaluation have taken place conceptually, contextually and operationally from the time the Australian Council for Educational Research published Teacher Appraisal: Issues and Approaches.

It includes:

• Actual case studies of appraisal schemes used in our schools
• Teacher pay systems
• Advanced skills teaching
• The duties-based approach to teacher evaluation
• The place of evaluation in education reform.

Valuing Teachers' Work consists of three sections:

Section One outlines models of evaluation and appraisal that currently provide a challenge for policy makers and practitioners in the field.

Section Two looks at the context in which national and state policies on teacher assessment are being shaped.

Section Three presents a series of case studies to indicate how particular schools are responding and contributing to the changing agenda on teacher review and development.