This book discusses teacher evaluation and how it can provide the foundations for professional development. The editors and contributors illustrate how teachers with varying levels of expertise, experience and learning needs can benefit from differentiated evaluation and professional development designed to help them reach their full potential. The book examines various aspects of differentiation including levels of experience from pre-service to veteran, practices of school principals as they supervise and evaluate staff, and wider education policies that can support or hinder differentiation. Providing fascinating insights into how teacher evaluation policies can support practice in a variety of contexts, this timely collection will be of interest and value to students and scholars of teacher evaluation and professional development.

“This book represents an amalgam of examinations of teacher evaluation from the contexts of North America and Europe. … this book may be valuable to those who are trying to reconceptualize evaluation policies by learning from other countries.” (Moldir Ablayeva, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)

Mary Lynne Derrington is Associate Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. 

Jim Brandon is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Associate Dean, Professional and Community Engagement in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.