TY - JOUR AB - Purpose This essay uses the author’s experience with teacher evaluation as a point of departure to consider how narrative methods might be used to complicate contemporary trends in teacher evaluation. Ultimately, this piece hopes to contribute to a discussion about how storytelling might be implemented as a model of teacher evaluation that could speak back to instrumentalist or technical practices in schools that undermine the complexity of the teaching profession.Design/methodology/approach This piece uses narrative inquiry to consider teacher evaluation.Findings This piece uses narrative inquiry to consider more complex implementations of teacher evaluation.Originality/value This piece is an original consideration of the potential forms of teacher evaluation. VL - 15 IS - 2 SN - 1175-8708 DO - 10.1108/ETPC-01-2016-0009 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-01-2016-0009 AU - Tanner Samuel Jaye PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/01/01 TI - Storying the classroom: storytelling and teacher evaluation T2 - English Teaching: Practice & Critique PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 208 EP - 220 Y2 - 2024/04/18 ER -