Taking Stock: Tools and Strategies for Evaluating Programs, Directors, Teachers and Children - CD Book

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Any deficiency in any one area of an organization can throw everything out of balance, undermining the ability of the entire organization to perform. How healthy is your early childhood organization?

This Exchange CD Book offers an awesome collection of 64 articles in PDF format offering a host of practical tools and strategies for:

Table of Contents

• Organizational Evaluation
1. Do You Have a Healthy Organization? by Roger Neugebauer
2. Need a Barometer for Assessing the Climate of Your Center? by Soni Werner
3. Signs Your Organization is Growing Too Fast by Bob Benson
4. Nine Questions for the Dedicated Board Member: An Exchange Evaluation Instrument
5. Is Your Center Secure? 20 Questions You need to Ask
• Director Evaluation
1. How Do We Define Director Competence? by Paula Jorde Bloom
2. Leadership Style Assessment Tool by Paula Jorde Bloom, Marilyn Sheerer, and Joan Britz
3. How Are You Doing? by Karen L. Talley
4. Out of the Box Ideas for Director Evaluation - Part I by Roger Neugebauer
5. Out of the Box Ideas for Director Evaluation - Part II by Roger Neugebauer
6. Are You a Well Rounded Leader? Developed by Redlands Christian Migrant Association, Immokalee, Florida
7. Evaluation of Director by Staff: An Exchange Evaluation Instrument
8. Director Evaluation by Staff Form by Margie Carter
9. Center Director Evaluation Form
10. Self-Assessment - Center Director: An Exchange Evaluation Instrument
• Staff Appraisal
1. Caregivers of Quality by Sally Cartwright
2. Performance Appraisals: One Step in a Comprehensive Staff Supervision Model by Susan Kilbourne
3. Assessing Staff Problems: Key to Effective Staff Development by John M. Johnston
4. Looking Inside: Helping Teachers Assess Their Beliefs and Values by Paula Jorde Bloom
5. An Assessment Tool for Professional Development by Mary Benson McMullen, Mehmet Buldu, Martha Lash, and Kazim Alat
6. Strategies for Diversifying Performance Evaluation and Feedback by Kay Albrecht
7. Staff Evaluations: Responding to the Challenge by Patricia Scallan
8. Reading Staff Dissatisfaction Cues by Kay Albrecht
9. Helping Teachers Grow: Strategies for Diversifying Performance Evaluation and Feedback by Kay Albrecht
10. Helping Teachers Grow: Separating Competency from Compensation by Kay Albrecht
11. Quality Enhancement Through Self-Reflecting and Dialog by Margie Carter
12. Evaluating Staff Performance: A Valuable Training Tool by Margie Carter
13. Are You Listening? An Exchange Evaluation Instrument
14. Master Teacher Evaluation Form by Margie Carter
15. Teacher Evaluation Form by Carol Murphy
16. Teacher Self-Evaluation Form by Carol Murphy
17. Staff Self-evaluation Form by Joan Lloyd and the Peoria Star
18. Self-Evaluation: Early Childhood Teacher - An Exchange Evaluation Instrument
• Program Evaluation
1. Measuring the Quality of Early Childhood Programs by Ann S. Epstein
2. Looking at the Quality of Early Childhood Programs by Lilian G. Katz
3. Making Evaluation Work in Childhood Care by Dick Rowe
4. Program Evaluation: How to Ask the Right Questions by Marjorie Kostelnik
5. Program Evaluation for Child Care Professionals by Theresa M. Sull
6. Two Techniques for Program Evaluation by Victor J. Ross
7. Preparing to Evaluate Your Child Care Center's Performance by Cindy Ratekin and Gary Bess
8. "What a Wonderful Place for Children" by Celia Martin Boykin
9. Assessing Your Center to Create a Diverse Staff by Katherine S. Kolozak
10. Parent Feedback: A Critical Element in Program Quality by R. Eleanor Duff, Mark Tompkins, and Sally McClellan
11. Involving Parents and Teachers in the Evaluation Process by Suzanne Gellens
12. Parent Evaluation of Child Care Program: An Exchange Evaluation Instrument
13. Using the Environment Rating Scales for Quality Improvement Projects by Marcy Robertson
• Environmental Evaluation
1. The Physical Environment by Elizabeth Prescott
2. Places to Live: Important Dimensions of Child Care Settings by Jim Greenman
3. What's Going On Out Here? An Evaluation Tool for Your Playground by Jim Dempsey, Eric Strickland, and Joe Frost
4. Using Your Senses to Adapt Environments: Checklist for an Accessible Environment by Kirsten Haugen
5. Transforming Environments Through Self-Reflection by Wanda Billheimer and Gina Lewis
6. Rethinking Our Environments by Margie Carter
• Child Assessment
1. What Assessment Means to Early Childhood Educators by Angela Notari-Syverson and Angela Losardo
2. Assessment Tools in the 21st Century by Jason K. Feld and Kathryn S. Bergan
3. Questions to Guide Our Work by Margie Carter
4. Interviewing Young Children by Yael Dayan
5. Questions As a Technique for Scaffolding Children's Learning by Lila Tekene
6. Assessing Mathematical Learning: Observing and Listening to Children by Juanita V. Copley
• Child Observation
2. When We Really See the Child by Sally Cartwright
3. The Power of Observation by Amy Dombro, Judy Jablon, and Margo Dichtelmiler
4. Using Observation by Eileen Hughes and Alice Hess
5. Observations That Make a Difference by Margie Carter
6. Observations Are Essential in Supporting Children's Play by Gretchen Reynolds
7. Observing Children's Play by Margaret Cooney

Trainers and Faculty...
...this is the perfect resource for supplementing a text or creating your own curriculum.

Directors and Administrators...
...this is your guidebook for evaluating your program, your teachers, the children you serve, and yourself.