Teacher Evaluation in Music: A Guide for Music Teachers in the U. S. aims to help music teachers navigate the controversial terrain of teacher evaluation. Rather than entering the debate on policy divorced from practice, this book is intended as a pragmatic approach to help music teachers to thrive within teacher evaluation systems and as a way to improve practice. Using Shulman's concept of content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge, this book strives to...

• Foreword by Susan Wharton Conkling
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Teacher Evaluation and Music Teachers
• Chapter 1: Teacher Evaluatoin: History, Policy, and Practice
• Chapter 2: Developing a Mindset to Succeed in Teacher Evaluation Systems
• Chapter 3: Questioning
• Chapter 4: Differentiation
• Chapter 5: Literacy
• Chapter 6: Assessment
• Chapter 7: Talking to Evaluators
• Postlude
• References
• Index