TRUSTING SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS by Gerry McNamara, Joe O'Hara ( 9780820486383 )

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TRUSTING SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS
DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONALISM THROUGH SELF-EVALUATION

By:

Gerry McNamara, Joe O'Hara

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0820486388

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9780820486383

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Publisher:

PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

14 May, 2008

Series:

Irish Studies 8

Pages:

227

Synopsis:

Trusting Schools and Teachers: Developing Educational Professionalism Through Self-Evaluation emerged from a series of studies undertaken with teachers at various stages of their careers exploring the impact of a range of evaluation systems on their personal and professional development. The book begins with a comparative analysis of the rise of school and teacher evaluation, charting the trend's conceptual and political influences, and highlights how the concept of self-evaluation has come, for a variety of reasons, to play a surprisingly large role in the emerging approaches to school and teacher evaluation. This is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the emerging system of whole-school evaluation in Ireland. Research indicates that while self-evaluation looms large in the system's theoretical framework, in fact, there is strong evidence that neither schools nor teachers have the expertise required to systematically self-evaluate. This book identifies methodologies designed to empower schools and teachers to become genuinely self-evaluating through the development of research skills in the context of online communities of practice.

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