Evaluating Teachers Across Content Areas

1. Evaluating Teachers Across Content Areas

2. School Accountability Growth

3. Better Evaluation of Teachers • In order to improve practice, teachers need feedback that is accurate, authentic, and actionable. • Accurate: Feedback precisely reflects the teacher’s practice in the classroom (not just during observation). • Authentic: Feedback recommends action that is consistent with established best practice. • Actionable: Feedback provides concrete examples of what teachers can do to improve. • The feedback that teachers receive should be specific to the content that the teacher delivers.

4. Standards 3 and 4 • Standard 3 (Content Knowledge) and Standard 4 (Facilitate Learning) should be strongly related to student achievement and growth. • Standard 3 is the “what” and Standard 4 is the “how” of student learning. • While teacher behavior measured by Standard 4 could be uniform across subject areas, Standard 3 is highly variable across content domains. • How well do higher ratings on Standard 3 relate to student growth (as compared to ratings on Standard 4)?

5. Standards 3 and 4 (Math) Value-Added Index Grades 6 and up

6. Standards 3 and 4 (ELA) Value-Added Index Grades 6 and up

7. Principal Content Expertise Value-Added Index Grades 6 and up

8. Conclusions • Differences in Standard 4 ratings (the how) in math are more predictive of student growth than differences in Standard 3 ratings (the what). • This doesn’t mean that content knowledge doesn’t matter, but that, on average, we aren’t measuring this aspect of teaching as well the facilitation of learning. • We cannot determine from these data whether the issue of evaluating math content knowledge is “skill” or “will”. • Our READY Principals meetings will focus on improving the observation and evaluation of mathematics instruction.

9. Questions and Comments Thomas Tomberlin 919-807-3440 thomas.tomberlin@dpi.nc.gov educatoreffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov

10. Analysis of Student Work Principal Updates

11. ASW - Principal Role Approve the Teacher’s Schedule • Principal receives notification from TNL • Signature step in TNL looks exactly like signature steps in the evaluation platform. • Practice Schedule Validation • Approval window in January 2015 • Final Schedule Validation • Late January - Early February 2015

12. ASW - Principal Role Approve Chosen Objectives • Approve objectives chosen by Teacher • Approval window opens in early February • No final deadline – can be done in the system at any time. • Guidance • Review objectives with the Teacher, and then approve in TNL system. • Strands and Standards Guidance Charts available on the ASW Wiki for each content area.

13. ASW - Resources ASW Wiki: ncasw.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Implementation Timeline • Strands and Standards Guidance Charts • ASW Memos from NCDPI • Participation Requirements for ASW • List of Courses included in the ASW Process • Information on Standard 6 Waivers • Teacher Resources • FAQ

14. Questions and Comments Jennifer DeNeal 919-807-3288 Jennifer.DeNeal@dpi.nc.gov educatoreffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov