Connecting Teacher Evaluation to Student Progress

1. Connecting Teacher Evaluation to Student Progress Implementing Standard 7

2. Proposed Weighting Standards 1-6 Standard 7 http://www.state.nj.us/education/AchieveNJ (May 2013)

3. Student Progress (Standard 7) 2013-2014 Standard 7 counts 15% Standard 7 counts 45% *The student enrollment requirement for attributing students to a teacher for an SGP score will be 70% of the school year. A teacher must have 20 tested students to receive an SGP. If not, the teacher will have two SGOs.

4. Standard 7 – Student Progress • The work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable, and appropriate student progress.

5. Standard 7 – Student Progress Sample Performance Indicators Examples of teacher work conducted in the performance of the standard may include, but are not limited to: 7. 1 Sets acceptable, measurable and appropriate achievement goals for student academic progress based on baseline data. 7.2 Documents the progress of each student throughout the year. 7.3 Provides evidence that achievement goals have been met, including the state-provided growth measure when available as well as other multiple measures of student growth. 7.4 Uses available performance outcome data to continually document and communicate student academic progress and develop interim learning targets.

6. Standard 7 – Student Progress

7. Standard 7 – Student Progress • Include multiple measures of student academic progress (at least two) • Use Student Growth Objective(s) • Include Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) when available and appropriate • Account for 45percentof the teacher’s Summative Performance Evaluation (tested grades) • Account for 15 percent of the teacher’s Summative Performance Evaluation (non-tested grades) FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY

8. Standard 7 – Student Progress What We Need to Know • What should we know in using student growth objectives in a teacher’s performance evaluation? • How do we synthesize multiple measures of student academic progress to rate a teacher on Standard 7: Student Progress?

9. StrongeTeacher Effectiveness Performance Evaluation System Determining Student Growth Objective Achievement

10. Determining Student Growth Objective Achievement Question 1 What should we know to use student growth objectives in a teacher’s performance evaluation?

11. Why Consider Student Growth Objectives? For about 20 percent of teachers, student growth percentiles will be available. For about 80 percent of teachers, other measures of academic progress will need to be identified.

12. Step 3: Create and implement teaching and learning strategies Step 4: Monitor student progress through ongoing formative assessment What Is Student Growth Objective Goal Setting? Step 5: Determine whether the students achieved the objective Step 2: Create specific growth objectives based on pre-assessment Step 1: Determine needs

13. Specific Measureable Appropriate Realistic and Rigorous Time-bound What Makes Objectives SMART?

14. Teacher HHigh School English Teacher Handout Page 5

15. Professional’s Name: Teacher H Worksite Yourtown High School Job Title: English Teacher School Year 2012- 2013

16. BaselineData (September Assessment) 37% 33% 20% 10%

17. Teacher H’s Objective Objective Statement: For the current school year, 100 percent of my students will make measurable progress in writing. Students scoring a “1” will increase by two performance levels. Students scoring a “2” will increase by one performance level. Students scoring a “3” or “4” will maintain or increase performance, increasing writing depth and complexity. A higher level writing rubric will be used to score level “4” writings. • A good objective statement is one that is… • Specific • Measurable • Appropriate • Realistic and Rigorous • Time-bound

18. Is Teacher H’s Objective SMART?

19. Step 3: Create and implement teaching and learning strategies Step 4: Monitor student progress through ongoing formative assessment Step 3: Create and Implement Strategies Step 5: Determine whether the students achieved the objective Step 2: Create specific growth objectives based on pre-assessment Step 1: Determine needs

20. Strategies

21. Step 3: Create and implement teaching and learning strategies Step 4: Monitor student progress through ongoing formative assessment Step 4: Monitoring Student Progress and Making Adjustments Step 5: Determine whether the students achieved the objective Step 2: Create specific growth objectives based on pre-assessment Step 1: Determine needs

22. Monitoring Student Progress Monitor both student progress toward student growth objective attainment AND strategy effectiveness Make adjustments to strategies as needed

23. Steps in the Mid-year Review Process Step 1 Collect and reflect on informal and formal mid-year data Step 2 Reflect on progress toward objective Step 3 Reflect on effectiveness of strategies Step 4 Adjust strategies

24. BaselineData and Mid-year Data 37% 33% 20% 10%

25. Teacher’s Midyear Reflection on Strategies -Teacher H

26. Teacher’s Mid-yearReflection Continued - Teacher H

27. Step 3: Create and implement teaching and learning strategies Step 5: Determine Whether Students Achieved the Objective Step 5: Determine whether the students achieved the objective Step 4: Monitor student progress through ongoing formative assessment Step 2: Create specific growth objectives based on pre-assessment Step 1: Determine needs

28. BaselineData, Mid-year Data, and End of Year Data: Teacher H

29. Summary SLO Data For the evaluation year 2012 – 2013, 83 percent of students met or exceeded the SGO goal.

30. Highly Effective Rating Teacher Performance on Standard 7 Using Student Growth Objectives(For Training Purposes Only) • Ninety percent or more of the students met or exceeded the SGO goal • Effective • At least 80 percent of students met or exceeded the SGO goal Handout page 6

31. Rating Teacher Performance on Standard 7 Using Student Growth Objectives (For Training Purposes Only) • Partially Effective • Fifty one percent - 79 percent of students met SGO goal • Ineffective • Fifty percent or more of students did not meet the SGO goal

32. SGO Evaluation Practice Teacher A: Second-Grade Mathematics • With a partner(s) review the SGO form. • Review the data provided. • Look carefully at the end-of-year data. • Determine a rating using the decision rules provided. Handout pages 7-10

33. Synthesizing Student Growth Objectives Implementing Standard 7 – Synthesizing Student Growth Objectives

34. Other Measures of Student Progress Question 2 How do we synthesize multiple measures of student academic progress to rate a teacher on Standard 7: Student Progress?

35. Putting It All Together: How to Synthesize Multiple Data Sources for a Rating on Standard 7 Teachers for Whom SGP Data Are Neither Available nor Appropriate • Review data from student growth objectives. • Assign a performance level rating based on the preponderance of evidence (using data-informed professional judgment).

36. DecisionRules for Judging Standard 7 (For Training Purposes Only) Handout page 13

37. Ratings on Standard 7 Simulations Simulation 1 – Twelfth-Grade English Teacher Simulation 2 – Seventh-Grade Mathematics Teacher Simulation 3 – Elementary School Art Teacher Handout pages 14-16

38. Twelfth-Grade English Teacher

39. Seventh-Grade Math Teacher

40. Elementary Art Teacher