Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees - Softcover

Eller, John F.; Eller, Sheila A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412958687 ISBN 13: 9781412958684

Publisher: Corwin, 2009

Synopsis

Help marginal employees take positive steps to improve their performance and behavior!

Managing difficult employees is one of the most challenging aspects of a school leader’s job. Written by experienced administrators, this resource provides specific strategies to identify, work with, and evaluate employees who have marginal, deficient, or negative behaviors. This book includes:

• Sample dialogues for conducting difficult conversations
• Templates for putting concerns into writing and developing improvement plans
• Information about legal issues and ways to protect yourself
• Methods for working with teachers, secretaries and assistants, paraprofessionals, and custodial staff
• Steps to take when termination becomes necessary

About this title

About the Author:

John Eller has had a variety of experiences in working with adults over the years he has been in education. His experiences include work educational leaders at Virginia Tech University, developing teacher leaders in a Maters program, serving as the Executive Director of Minnesota ASCD, work as a principal’s training center director, a position as an assistant superintendent for curriculum, learning, and staff development, and several principal positions in a variety of settings. In addition to the work he does in training and supporting facilitators, John also does work in the areas of dealing with difficult people, building professional learning communities, employee evaluation, conferencing skills, coaching skills, strategic planning strategies, school improvement planning and implementation, differentiated instruction, leadership for differentiation, employee recruitment, selection, and induction, supervisory skills, and effective teaching strategies.

He has his PhD. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Loyola University-Chicago and his MS in Educational Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. John has authored books on substitute teaching, wrote The Training Video Series for the Professional School Bus Driver, The principals’ Guide to Custodial Supervision contributes articles for the publication Superintendents Only. He wrote Effective Group Facilitation in Education: How to Energize Meetings and Manage Difficult Groups, and co-authored So Now You’re the Superintendent, the best selling, Energizing Staff Meetings and Creative Strategies to Improve School Culture all through Corwin Press.

Review:

“The Ellers have done an excellent job identifying supervision problems that plague administrators on a daily basis. They provide clear and detailed strategies to address personnel problems covering virtually every employment group. I strongly recommend this book as a quick reference for all school administrators as they deal with difficult employees.” Author: Dan Hoverman, Superintendent Published On: 2009-09-23

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412958687
• ISBN 13: 9781412958684
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136