EP129 How to take charge of your teaching evaluation
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
My guest on the Truth For Teachers podcast today is Jennifer Ansbach, a National Board Certified™ English teacher. She is currently in the classroom teaching high school, and she's also the author of the new book Take Charge of Your Teacher Evaluation.
Teaching observations are stressful, but you can do more than just survive them, and actually take charge of your teaching evaluation. Jennifer will share what a healthy teacher evaluation looks like and her practical and encouraging advice on the three things you can do to take charge!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 129 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.5 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into the minds |
| 0:11.8 | and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm talking with Jennifer Onsbach about how to take charge of your teaching evaluation. |
| 0:21.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript and to share your |
| 0:24.7 | thoughts and questions in the comments. So I'm really excited about both my |
| 0:29.5 | topic and my guest today because the the concept of how to take charge of your teaching evaluation is something that a lot of teachers have asked me about and to be honest I just didn't do an episode because I didn't know what to say. I feel like the |
| 0:44.2 | requirements have changed so much in the last couple of years and they really vary |
| 0:48.5 | a lot from district to district so I wasn't sure what advice I could give that would be applicable to everyone. |
| 0:55.0 | And honestly, this just isn't my area of expertise. |
| 0:58.0 | So enter Jennifer Anspuck. |
| 1:00.0 | She is a National Board certified English teacher, and she's currently in the classroom teaching high school. |
| 1:05.5 | She's also the author of the new book, Take Charge of your Teaching Evaluation. |
| 1:10.3 | So I reached out to her on Twitter which is I follow her there and you know she really |
| 1:16.1 | tweets out some awesome stuff and I happen to notice this book in her profile is like oh my |
| 1:19.8 | gosh this is amazing I got to get her on truth for teachers. So she and I were chatting before the interview and she shared that this book grew out of her work helping her colleagues and it grew out of the research that she was doing because she is the local unions PD chair at her |
| 1:35.2 | district in New Jersey so she is incredibly well researched and well versed on |
| 1:39.4 | this and she created the book because she wanted to share what she had learned with other teachers. |
| 1:44.6 | And more importantly, she wanted to help teachers overcome that feeling of powerlessness |
| 1:50.1 | that tends to come along with evaluations. |
| 1:52.3 | She wants teachers to finally be recognized for their effectiveness |
| 1:56.6 | and for what they do every single day in the classroom. |
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