This document provides tips for evaluating teachers, including setting a good example for students, being compassionate, setting ground rules, having a solid lesson plan, using evaluation forms, and setting goals. Effective teachers treat students with care, allow student input on rules, divide lessons into introduction, group work, and individual work sections, and generate artifacts showing alignment with objectives. Evaluation forms and teacher goal-setting should reflect research on effective teaching behaviors.

1. Tips to Evaluate Teachers

2. Introduction
 Evaluation of teaching can have many purposes,
including collecting feedback for teaching
improvement, developing a portfolio for job
applications, or gathering data as part of personnel
decisions, such as reappointment or promotion and
tenure.

3. Tips to Evaluate the Teacher
 Set a good example to your students
 Be compassionate
 Set some ground rules
 Never let your students down when they come to you with
their problems
 Have a solid plan for your lessons.
 Evaluation Forms
 Artifacts of Effective Teachers
 Goal Setting

4. Set a Good Example to Your Students
 Remember that you are the teacher. It is important
for you to be like a "superhero" figure in their eyes.
Remember that your students look up to you and will
try to mimic your disposition.

5. Be Compassionate
 Great educators form strong relationships with their
students and show that they care about them as
people. They are warm, accessible, enthusiastic and
caring.

6. Set Some Ground Rules
 Try allowing the class to suggest the ground rules:
have a class discussion and write ideas, it makes the
class feel they are listened to and that you care
about their opinions and input while also setting
some groundwork that they will feel loyal to because
they've made it.

7. Have a Solid Plan For Your Lessons
 Each and every lesson should be divided into three
simple parts that reflect your objective.
 First should be the "lecture" part of the lesson.
 Dedicate the second part of class to something that
involves a collective group work element where
students can work with whoever they want.
 QUIETLY on one final task

8. Evaluation Forms
 Evaluation forms for teachers should provide for
varied levels of performance and they should be
illustrated with specific examples of behaviors to be
observed.

9. Artifacts of Effective Teachers
 Teachers that are effective most often perform in a
pattern and generate artifacts that are evidence of
their effective behaviors. Effective teachers write
lesson plans that are tied to state and national
objectives.

10. Goal Setting
 Just as effective teachers require students to set
personal learning goals, effective school districts
should require teachers to set performance goals
that are aligned with behaviors associated with
effective teachers and the districts vision and
mission statement.

11. Who I Am..
 Kristine Raap is a teacher who has been nominated
as a teacher of the year three times while working for
Wallace School District.