This study presents certain guidelines for conducting teacher evaluation at K-12 levels of education. Some of the themes discussed are: goals of evaluation, charateristics of effective teachers, models of teacher evaluation, characteristics of effective teacher evaluation programs, sources of information within the evaluation process, evaluation instruments, obstacles to evaluation and effective feedback techniques. Mainly, this revue of the literature concludes that present teacher evaluation models contain shortcomings which can be overcome if multiple sources of information are used to gather data during the evaluation process. An overview of the literature dealing with effective feedback strategies is presented.