Evaluation of Instructional Elements

Evaluation of instructional elements
• Objectives: Students should be able to:

• Design self-reflection instruments
• Design instruments to get feedback from learners on
instructional issues
• Design teacher self-evaluation
• Discuss the proper implementation of instruments
• Explain and apply teacher self-evaluation instrument
and school self-evaluation
• Explain the importance of school audits and strategic
planning reflect on feedback and consider feedback
and consider improvement.
Self-reflection instruments
• In teaching profession, honest is a key.
• As teachers, we must regularly reflect on our
work.
• Self-reflection vs self-evaluation.
• Self-reflection is philosophical or broader
thinking. About what am I believing and how
well am doing it.
• Self-reflection: is about careful thought about
your own behaviour and beliefs.
• Reflective practitioner!!
• Self-evaluation: refers to individuals
assessment of themselves.
• It requires individuals to evaluate and monitor
own performance in relation to identified
criteria or standards.
Self-reflection instrument for
teachers
• Where did I fail as a teacher in the past?
• What is my teaching goal for the upcoming
academic year?
• What can I do to be proactive? (pages 225-
226)
• Look at subject specific teacher self-reflection
on pages 226-228.
• All these gives us of what could be done and
how to do it.
Self evaluation instruments: Its
benefit to teachers
• Reflect on development since 2005 in terms of
ETSIP, NPST and National Standards and
Performance Indicators for schools.
 It evaluates issues related to:
 Subject administration
 Lesson preparation
 Lesson presentation and
 Other important issues a teacher must attend
(pp.230-231).
Benefits of self-instrument to
teachers
• It helps to improve teaching and learning
• It could lead to teachers finding their own
teaching strengths and weaknesses
• It indicates how well or how bad the teacher is
doing
• It could lead to better reflection
• It could lead to general self-improvement
• It helps to measure some degree of accuracy
of attitudes or behaviours
• It helps the teacher to organize official
documents, such as syllabi and scheme of
work
• It helps the teacher to become well organised
by creating files e.g. preparation and resource
file
• It leads to improvement in lesson preparation
• It creates conducive learning environment in
class
• It helps to set academic performance targets
• It leads to quality lesson planning and
preparation
• It makes teacher to attend to resources such
as:
– Providing more teaching materials in classroom
• It allows the teacher to seek for external
support.
• It makes the teacher to provide more
continuous assessment.
Questionnaire feedback from learners
and parents
• Debate about validity of feedback from
learners
• Too young to understand the complexity of
teaching.
• However, good opportunity to get feedback
from customers.
• Encourage teachers to embrace the use of
questionnaire and how to design them
(Student-lecturer evaluation?).
Implementation of feedback
• Decide on what you want to get feedback on.
• It may help improve your teaching.
• Explain its purposes to learners
• Request honest opinion – completion should
be voluntarily.
• Feedback is anonymous.
• Not test- do not need to copy others’ views.
• When ready to discuss it – start with the
positive.
• Address the negatives – try to understand the
reasons behind the negatives.
School audits and strategic planning
• Allow you to reflect on own teaching-learning
practices with the use of instruments and
feedback from stakeholders.
• Audit could be done yearly to identify
anomalies that block effective teaching and
achievement.
• School could audit themselves or externally.
• Staff, learners and parents provide useful
information.
 After that devise an action schedule by
focusing on:
 Critical performance areas
 Devise a strategic planning of the school
o Complex thing to do – external professional.
 Strategic plan focus on how to manage the
future
 School audit how to fix current challenges.
 Link it to the current system: National
Standards and Performance Indicators for
Schools in Namibia
 The School Self-Evaluation Instrument focuses
on 7 key areas namely:
 Resources
 Curriculum and attainment
 Teaching and learning
 The school as social unit
 Management and leadership
 Links with parents and the community
 Links with other school and the region.
 Under each of these areas there are key
performance indicators and themes/aspects
to be achieved.

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