Describe your preschool roles and performance standards. Makeform creates an evaluation form with behavior-based ratings, evidence, strengths, growth priorities, and follow-up.
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Audience
Directors evaluating preschool classroom teachers
Format
Rating form with evidence and development plan
Prompt size
419 chars
Example form structure
Rating form with evidence and development plan
Employee, classroom, evaluator, and review period
Classroom care and active supervision
Teaching practice and child engagement
Observed evidence and strengths
Growth priorities, support, and follow-up date
Suggested routing tags
Ready for review
Growth plan
Follow-up due
Rate observable practice, record what happened, and name the support needed next.
Step 1
Observe
record behavior in classroom context
Step 2
Evaluate
apply consistent role-based criteria
Step 3
Discuss
review strengths and priorities together
Step 4
Follow up
track support, goals, and dates
Useful staff feedback
Separate observations from next steps. Use consistent anchors while preserving role and classroom context.
Use observable practices such as scanning the room, preparing transitions, asking open-ended questions, and completing routines.
Capture a brief example and context so feedback is clear and a director can distinguish a pattern from one unusual moment.
Connect each priority to support, an owner, and a review date so the evaluation becomes a working development plan.
Match the review moment
Keep core expectations consistent, then adapt the depth and role-specific items.
Summarize observations, progress, strengths, growth priorities, and professional goals.
Focus on routines, training, early coaching, questions, and immediate support.
Connect notes from one activity or transition to relevant indicators.
Show planning criteria to leads and classroom-support criteria to assistants.
Evaluation workflow
Shape the form around the job and what an evaluator can see, discuss, and support.
Name the position, age group, milestone, evaluator, and relevant domains. Separate responsibilities for leads, assistants, floaters, or support staff.
Define every scale point and add not observed or not applicable. Request comments for clear strengths and coaching priorities.
Order the form from context to evidence, ratings, summary, and plan. Show criteria for the selected role with conditional logic.
Route the submission to the appropriate director, schedule follow-up, and limit access according to your personnel-record practices.
Choose a useful approach
Combine consistent criteria, evidence, and a practical next step.
Field guide
These six sections keep classroom care and teaching feedback focused on observable work.
Review context
Record context for each rating. A brief transition differs from a planned lesson or full review.
Classroom care
Use concrete indicators for positioning, scanning, transitions, care routines, and response to children.
Teaching practice
Evaluate how staff extend thinking, join play, model language, offer choices, adapt activities, and plan for the classroom age group.
Guidance and relationships
Observe clear expectations, calm redirection, acknowledged feelings, conflict support, and constructive communication without scoring personality.
Ratings and evidence
Define each rating, include not observed and not applicable, and request examples. Keep unrelated behaviors in separate items.
Growth and follow-up
Turn notes into manageable priorities: what staff will practice, what the director will provide, and when both will review progress.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for directors designing classroom observations, staff reviews, and growth conversations.
It is a structured record for reviewing an educator's work, discussing strengths, choosing growth priorities, and planning support. It captures classroom context, behavior-based criteria, examples, employee input, actions, and follow-up.
Include review details, classroom context, supervision, care routines, teaching interactions, guidance, family communication, teamwork, reliability, evidence, strengths, goals, support, target dates, and acknowledgment. Add not observed or not applicable where needed.
Define each scale point with recognizable behavior and frequency, not labels alone. Discuss sample scenarios with reviewers, request evidence, and keep not observed separate from a low rating.
Yes. Share domains such as supervision, interactions, guidance, teamwork, and reliability. Then show lead-teacher planning criteria or assistant-teacher care and classroom-support criteria based on one role question.
Yes. Ask staff about strengths, progress, challenging routines, goals, and desired support. Keep self-evaluation responses distinct from supervisor observations so both perspectives remain visible.
Choose a cadence that fits program policy and coaching capacity. Combine brief observations or onboarding check-ins with a fuller periodic review, and schedule the next conversation on the form.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. Revise any example's fields, wording, ratings, and workflow.
Route submissions only to responsible reviewers, follow personnel-record practices, and avoid unnecessary details. Use growth-plan fields and follow-up dates to continue coaching after submission.
Make the next staff conversation concrete.
