This chart offers an overview of the three general areas that educators and policymakers should assess in selecting teacher leaders as well as methods for assessing candidates in each area.
Selecting Teacher-Leaders
Little empirical research has focused on selecting teacher leaders; until it does, cross-sector research and experience can help. The resources here include some on teacher leader selection as well as general resources on selection methods such as work sample demonstrations, structured behavioral interviews, cognitive and personality assessments, and biographical information and reference checks.
General Resources
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The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, developed this resource on promising practices, insights, and the very limited research... Read more »
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In this book, Teach for America distills what it has learned about effective teacher practice into six principles, such as setting goals and investing students and families in the work; it also... Read more »
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This tool from the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession can be used for selecting teacher leaders as well as for designing training and development support.
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Teachers, district leaders, and school leaders can use these tools to determine their level of readiness for teacher leadership.
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Teachers, district leaders, and school leaders can use these tools to determine their level of readiness for teacher leadership.
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This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
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This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
Evaluating Teacher-Leaders
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This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
Training Teacher-Leaders
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This toolkit from Leading Educators is designed to help state teams focusing on teacher leadership study other states’ approaches, identify strategies they can use, and find resources to support... Read more »
Job Candidate Selection Methods
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Selection Assessment Methods: A Guide to Implementing Formal Assessments to Build a High-Quality Workforce
This report from the SHRM Foundation turns research findings and expert opinion into specific advice on how to conduct effective human resource practices, including selection of successful candidates. -
This article reviews research on the selection tools and recruitment strategies that work, and which staffing and recruiting methods lead to positive applicant perceptions. It reviews the gaps in... Read more »
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This research review examines studies on the effectiveness of employment interviews in predicting future job behavior, including candidate and interview factors that may affect the interview process... Read more »
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The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board wrote this report to the president and Congress to help federal agencies improve how they assess job candidates.
Work Samples
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The University of Western Australia presents examples, advantages, disadvantages of work sample tests and instructions on how to create a work sample test.
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The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board wrote this report to the president and Congress to help federal agencies improve how they assess job candidates.
Behavioral Interviews
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This book by Signe and Lyle Spencer summarizes several decades of experience using the Behavior Event Interview method for selecting job candidates who are more likely to succeed in a particular role... Read more »
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Redesigning Schools to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teachers: Teacher & Staff Selection, Development, & Evaluation Toolkit Designed around the job models of an Opportunity Culture, this toolkit includes job descriptions, behavioral competencies, and companion tools to select, evaluate, and develop teachers and staff.
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This toolkit from Public Impact is designed to help district officials identify and hire teachers who have the capacity and will to implement school turnarounds.
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In an article for School Administrator magazine, Lucy Steiner and Sharon Kebschull Barrett examine how understanding competencies—habits of behavior and underlying motivations, which can help predict... Read more »
Cognitive Assessments
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The Graduate and Managerial Assessment (GMA) from 2006 was designed to assess those with higher ability and senior manager potential, aimed at the top 12.5 percent of the population.
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The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, which takes about an hour, measures crystallized intelligence—the ability to acquire, retain, organize, and conceptualize information—and is normed for... Read more »
Personality Assessments
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This Web resource introduces the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), one of the most common personality assessment tools.
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This Web resource from Sigma Assessment Systems introduces the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-3), a common and concise personality assessment tool.
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This research attempted to determine the relationship between personality dimensions and job performance using the NEO-Personality Inventory.
Biographical Information and Reference Checks
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The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board wrote this report to the president and Congress to help federal agencies improve how they assess job candidates.