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The Case for Commitment To Teacher Growth: Research On Teacher Evaluation

Teacher evaluation can be a helpful tool to facilitate teacher growth, or it can be a routine, perfunctory process that leaves the evaluator overworked and the teacher overstressed, but not better in terms of teaching performance. All too often, the latter is the case. Stiggins’ and Duke’s work provides research evidence of strategies that can be undertaken to help teachers grow professionally. The Case for Commitment to Teacher Growth is the result of a threeyear study centered mainly in two school districts in Oregon and two in the state of Washington. The investigation summarized in Stiggins’ and Duke’s work was a four-part process. The book was written sequentially in terms of their study, and each section was written independently of the other sections. The reader finds little change in the writers’ thinking as the book proceeds, however. Chapter One is a review of the literature as it relates to teacher evaluation. This section provides the reader with a substantial overview of the recent re-