The Good and the Bad
I got my evaluation back yesterday.
My students asked me today if I got a good evaluation and I could only respond “I guess so.” I got all of the tick marks in the right places so that’s good. The hand-written notes didn’t reflect anything negative about the lesson or my execution of it, so that was good. Yet, I got no usable input. Nothing in the notes pointed to what I could do better in the future. No indication of what I could work on. No praise for anything done well. This is…not good. Maybe it’s even bad.
It’s possible that my coordinator may read this and so I want to be clear: I know the man has a busy schedule. It’s unimaginable that he could observe all of his teachers and then provide any kind of detailed feedback that we could use. I don’t wish to indicate that he’s not doing his job. It’s just unfortunate that the most a teacher can expect from his evaluation is to be determined to be performing well enough as not to warrant further observation…until the next semester.
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