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<p>This research aims to explore how school principals determine whether they have low-performing teachers among their staff. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 principals in Chilean public schools. The qualitative research entailed an inductive approach, along with an interview methodology and content analysis to investigate the research questions. Principals rely on three main sources of information to identify low performing teachers: classroom observations carried out by principals and senior leaders, parents’ complaints and students’ comments. However, there is no single common approach for identifying low-performing teachers, even within the same school district. This study is the first to report on low-performing teachers in Chile from the perspective of school principals.</p>
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This research aims to explore how school principals determine whether they have low-performing teachers among their staff. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 principals in Chilean public schools. The qualitative research entailed an inductive approach, along with an interview methodology and content analysis to investigate the research questions. Principals rely on three main sources of information to identify low performing teachers: classroom observations carried out by principals and senior leaders, parents’ complaints and students’ comments. However, there is no single common approach for identifying low-performing teachers, even within the same school district. This study is the first to report on low-performing teachers in Chile from the perspective of school principals.

How principals identify low-performing teachers in public schools? Evidence from Chile

Journal of Pedagogy

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This research aims to explore how school principals determine whether they have low-performing teachers among their staff. Semi-structured interviews were...

How principals identify low-performing teachers in public schools? Evidence from Chile

Published Online: Dec 29, 2023

Page range: 5 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2023-0009

Keywords
leadership, principals, low-performing teachers, Chile

© 2023 Felipe Aravena, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

How principals identify low-performing teachers in public schools? Evidence from Chile

Published Online: Dec 29, 2023

Page range: 5 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2023-0009

Keywordsleadership, principals, low-performing teachers, Chile

© 2023 Felipe Aravena, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
leadership, principals, low-performing teachers, Chile