This is the book originally created by Frank Kemerer and John Crain. Jennifer Childress and Richard A. James have taken over as authors and updated the sixth edition of the top-selling Texas Documentation Handbook.
Now on its 22nd reprint, they have included changes reflecting the recent High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) initiative and HB1605 legislation and T-TESS update including an alternate rubric for Domain I on lesson internalization as an option for lesson planning. With this change, districts now have the option to utilize the new domain and dimensions in their teacher evaluations if they use state adopted materials that include pre-prepared lessons as opposed to teacher-made lessons. This is the first significant change that Texas has made to the appraisal system in years.
This easy-to-read desktop paperback handbook or eBook focuses on how to go about documenting the performance of both professional and auxiliary employees effectively in and out of the classroom. Whether the goal is performance improvement or preparing for a negative employment decision, the current reprint provides an indispensable guide for all school administrators. Numerous examples and illustrations of how to go about documenting are set forth. These include:
- Highlights of the Texas school employment legal framework
- Basic principles and examples of effective employee documentation
- Advice on how to tailor supervisory styles to teacher and other employee characteristics and administrator goals
- Focused observation instruments for easily gathering classroom data compatible with T-TESS or the school’s locally developed appraisal system
- Illustrations of how to complete the focused observation instruments effectively and communicate with the teacher
- Examples of more than 60 teacher behaviors linked to more than 40 student outcomes
- Discussion of social networking through digital devices
- Appendices containing the Code of Ethics for Texas Educators, documentation forms, and templates ready for use
- Digital link for downloading the documentation forms and templates in the appendices
