A Research On American Peer Assistance And Review Program

In the field of the evaluation of teachers, the application of teacher peer review is more and more popular and receive more and more attention from different fields. At present, teacher peer review in America implements successfully. Teacher peer review appeared in America in 1980s, now it has formed a perfect feasible system and played an important role in American teacher evaluation, and Peer Assistance and Review Program is one of the most popular and successful teacher peer review projects. Under the background of the innovation of teaching evaluation in our country, American Peer Assistance and Review Program can provide a highly efficient and effective way for our innovation.The writer detailedly introduces the background of the program,the organizing agents of the program--- National Education Association and American Federation of Teacher, and the purpose,object and standard of the program. It also introduces the implementation process of the program illustrated by the case of Peer Assistance And Review Program of Toledo. Writer also analyzes the differences between American Peer Assistance and Review Program and traditional teacher evaluation from the perspectives of evaluation time,the contract with teacher professional development,evaluation diaphaneity and so on. Then it analyzes the impact caused by the program on teacher professional development from the perspectives, and the challenges of American Peer Assistance and Review Program.The writer thinks, according to the successful implementation of American Peer Assistance And Review Program and the actuality of teacher evaluation in our country, our teacher evaluation should take teacher as a predominance and be for the purpose of promoting teacher professional development. And we also should apply the result of teacher evaluation reasonably.