North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Online Training

1. North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Online Training Elkin City Schools September 29, 2011

2. Today’s Meethttp://todaysmeet.com/elkinprin

3. Accessing the Back Channelhttp://todaysmeet.com/elkinprin

4. Evaluation Instrument EffectiveLeadershipStudentLearningQuality Teaching promotes Assessing teacher performance Designing a professional growth plan

5. McRel Online Tool Updates

6. Updates Include • Record of Teacher Evaluation Activities • Summary Rating Form • Self-generating PDP • Drop down menu for school year • Electronic Signature – screen shot directions • Teacher status

7. New User Manual • Principal Manual includes sections on: • Login • Completing a teacher observation, self assessment, summary rating form, PDP, and record of teacher activities form • Completing a principal self-evaluation, summary goal form, creating a group, evaluation, summary rating form, progress towards goals and summary goal form • Plan, manage, and schedule observations • Reports • Set up for exporting data

14. Teacher Evaluation Process STEP 1: Training and Orientation STEP 2: Self-Assessment, Goal Setting and Pre-Conference STEP 4: Summary Evaluation and Goal Setting STEP 3: Observation Cycle (Administrative and Peer)

15. PDP’s and Preliminary PDP’s • PPDP’s do not track to the Record of Teacher Activities yet. • PPDP is for teachers who did not have a summary rating from last year. • PPDP’s can be accessed from the teachers view. STEP 2: Self-Assessment, Goal Setting and Pre-Conference

16. Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers

17. When creating another observation, the administrator has the option to copy the previous observation so that the items that were previously checked will show in the new observation

18. Employee Transfers • The releasing district must delete the teacher from their spreadsheet before the receiving district can add the teacher to their spreadsheet.

20. How important are comments and artifacts?

21. Timeline for Success • Instructional Leader • Look at your yearlong calendar, then create a workable schedule for your observations. • Prioritize your scheduled observations

22. Best Practices for the Process • Meet with the teacher in the classroom whenever possible. • Ensure the teacher of the confidentiality and discretion for their continued growth. • Use clear and direct conversation with specific examples. • Document! Document! Document!

23. Online Module

24. NCEES Reminders & Enhancements • Full use of the online tool is required beginning July 1, 2011. This includes teachers, principals, and assistant principals. • Clean your cashe file for better functioning of the online tool. http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahic.html • Please remember forms will travel with teachers inside districts but will not travel if a teacher changes districts. • Ensure your spreadsheet is accurate before sending it to McRel to avoid sending multiple copies in a short period of time. • Create the Record of Teacher activities form for teachers now. The form will automatically date as forms are signed but it will not back-date any document.

25. Abbreviated Evaluation Policy Updates

26. Annual Evaluation Policy • Each local board shall adopt a policy requiring career teachers to be evaluated annually. The annual evaluation requirements shall be met by either: (1) Using the Teacher Evaluation Process as set forth in 16 NCAC 6C.0503; or (2) Using an abbreviated evaluation consisting of Standards One, Four, and Six of the Teacher Evaluation Process.

27. Sixth Standard for Teachers:Teachers contribute to the academic success of students. The work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable progress for students based on established performance expectations using appropriate data to demonstrate growth.

28. Adding Standard Six:

29. Concerns about Annual Evaluation:..The new evaluation instrument is more thorough and specific, and, therefore, takes longer for evaluators to complete.The House and Senate budgets reduced the number of assistant principals.Principals may not have time to complete the entire evaluation process for all staff members.

30. Annual Abbreviated Evaluation:

31. Requirements for Abbreviated Evaluation: • Teacher Self-Assessment • Professional Development Plan • Two Informal Observations (at least twenty minutes each) • Summary Evaluation Conference (on Standards One, Four, and Six) • Summary Rating Form (on Standards One, Four, and Six)

32. Moving Forward:Over the next year, sixty teacher work groups will design measures of growth for non-tested grades and subjects.A vendor will advise the Teacher Effectiveness Work Group on the selection of a student growth model.

33. Proceeding with Caution:No teacher will be evaluated on the sixth standard until he or she has three years of valid student achievement data.When three years of data are used, the chance of misclassification of a teacher is lower.

34. Proceeding with Caution:Using the current data for grades 3 – 8 math and English Language Arts teachers, less than five percent are not making expected growth.Under the current EVAAS system, nearly 80 percent of teachers stay in the same category (not detectably different) each year.

35. Effective Educators:

36. Issues for Consideration:The Teacher Effectiveness Work Group will consider: • The measures of growth used to rank a teacher on the sixth standard. • The number of ratings associated with the sixth and eighth standards. • The “cut points” used to separate teachers and principals into ratings.