'This Is My New Normal': Teachers' Accounts of Evaluation Policy at Local School Board Meetings

Autor/inn/en	Warren, Amber N.; Ward, Natalia A.
Titel	'This Is My New Normal': Teachers' Accounts of Evaluation Policy at Local School Board Meetings
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 33 (2018) 6, S.840-860 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Warren, Amber N.) ORCID (Ward, Natalia A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2017.1390164
Schlagwörter	Boards of Education; Meetings; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Evaluation; Educational Policy; Public Speaking; Educational Legislation; Federal Legislation; Value Added Models; Public Schools; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausschuss; Meeting; Tagung; Lehrerverhalten; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Vortrag; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	In this study, we seek to illuminate teachers' constructions of US teacher evaluation policies through close analysis of the way teachers in one district describe these policies. We conducted a thematic discursive analysis of 60 teachers' speeches, recorded during local school board meetings in a Tennessee school district. Using discursive psychology as a lens, analysis focuses on the teachers' constructions of teacher accountability policies and their own positioning within the policies. We also attend to the linguistic resources teachers used in justifying their decision to speak during the meetings. Findings showed that while drawing upon repertoires of human capital and one-size-fits-all education, the teachers' patterned participation involved the contestation of status quo practices of teacher evaluation and effectiveness by contrasting them with imagined possibilities of what evaluation could be instead. Implications for developing teacher evaluation are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01