How to Write Teacher Performance Levels Into Negotiated Contracts

RICHARD L. WENDLER

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DOI: 10.2190/TT7P-HMJJ-CK74-LVDP

Abstract

Management can effectively use the employee contract to make teachers accountable for their pupils' learning. This article advocates the use of behavioral objectives to provide educators with concrete goals and specific targets that can be defined, written into the contract, and evaluated. Acceptable performance levels should be predetermined as an evaluative base and alternatives considered, in case these are not achieved. Vital to the implementation of this proposal are adequate resources--human and financial--and objective data.

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