10-second review: What do we know about students’ education before they have reached our level? As teachers, we need to understand what has occurred before our students reach us and what will occur after they leave us.
Source: RayS. 2005.
Comment: One of my problems as K-12 language arts supervisor was my purpose for observing classrooms in action. I did not evaluate teachers’ performance. That was the principal’s job. I needed to do more to inform each level—elementary, middle school/junior high, high school, college—of what was occurring at other levels. A daunting task, but it could well have been my ticket to observations at each level that teachers would understand and about which they would not be apprehensive.
Couple that purpose with evaluating the implementation of the language arts curriculum and I would have had plenty of reasons for observing classroom teaching. Understand, I did observe every classroom throughout the district, but teachers were apprehensive about my presence without any clear purpose that would benefit them.
Communicating with college English departments was another problem I did not address adequately. RayS.
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