The Study On Performance Evaluation Of American Primary And Secondary School Teachers

The performance evaluation of American primary and secondary school teachers could be traced back to the end of the 1800 s,now it has built up a relatively complete performance evaluation system.This paper combing the history of American primary and middle school teacher performance evaluation system by means of literature method and case method,attempting to help our current reform of teacher performance evaluation system.This paper is divided into four chapters.Chapter 1 discussed the production and early exploration of the performance evaluation of American primary and secondary school teachers in 1970 s and before;Chapter 2 discussed the establishment of standards for performance evaluation of American primary and secondary schools teachers,and the state tried to improve the quality of education through the implementation of teacher performance evaluation system in 1980s;Chapter 3discussed that under the influence of trend of professional development in 1990 s,America regarded teacher professional development as an important content of teachers performance evaluation standards;Chapter 4 discussed that since 2000 s,America began to consider student achievement as important standard for teacher performance evaluation of primary and secondary schools,value-added performance sprung up and had the widespread influence.The Epilogue summarized the characteristics and development trends of American teacher performance evaluation system,and put forward some experience and enlightenment based on the current status and problems of teacher performance evaluation in China.