Evaluation Standards 6 & 8

1. Evaluation Standards 6 & 8 Cherokee County Schools Administrators July 30, 2012 Joyce Gardner Professional Development Consultant, Region 8 joyce.gardner@dpi.nc.gov

2. region8wnc.ncdpi.wikispaces.net

3. A Coherent Plan for Statewide Impact

4. Principal’s Responsibility

5. 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) See Process Handout

6. North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards

7. 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.

8. Effective Teachers

9. Inclusion of Student Growth:The State will add a student growth component to the teacher and principal evaluation process.A Teacher Effectiveness Work Group comprised of representative stakeholders will consider how to add the components and address technical concerns.

10. Importance of Student Growth: Current evaluation ratings are not correlated with student growth.

11. 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.

12. Annual Evaluation Policy:

13. Abbreviated Evaluation • For career teachers not in their renewal year, the second option would require 2 informal observations • Informal observations do not require a post-observation conference) and • A summative evaluation at the end of the year. • An abbreviated evaluation is an OPTION. • Principals always have the right to complete the full Teacher Evaluation Process.

14. 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.

15. Annual Abbreviated Evaluation:

16. Requirements for Abbreviated Evaluation: • The abbreviated evaluation option includes: • 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)

17. NC Educator Evaluation Systemhttp://ncees.ncdpi.wikispaces.net http://ncees.ncdpi.wikispaces.net

18. STEP 1: Principal will log in as normal. STEP 2: Select Observe/Report: Observations. STEP 3: Select the teacher of interest. STEP 4: If creating a new observation, select NEW OBSERVATION.

19. STEP 5: If working on an existing observation that is “In progress” click on the observation: STEP 6: Click on the “Next” button

20. STEP 6: If the teacher status is Career, click on the down arrow key in OBSERVATION VERSION then you may either select the Full Version: Or the Abbreviated Version:

21. Probationary teachers do not have an option for different versions, therefore, only the Full Version is available:

22. Beth Ann Williams – beth.williams@dpi.nc.gov Abbreviated EvaluationSummary Rating Form

23. STEP 1: Select New Form STEP 2: Select Next

24. If the teacher status is Career, click on the down arrow key in OBSERVATION VERSION then you may either select the Full Version STEP 3: Or the Abbreviated Version:

25. Robert Sox – robert.sox@dpi.nc.gov Writeable PDP

26. populates when teachers are rated in the previous year as “not demonstrated” or “developing” allows for additional items to be added

27. Return in 10 minutes. BREAK

29. Gallery Walk with the Standards • With a partner, read each of the elements and descriptors posted around the room. • Do one of the following: • Write down a behavior that exemplifies this element. • Validate what someone else has written. • Add to what someone else has written.

30. EffectiveLeadershipStudentLearningQuality Teaching promotes Assessing teacher performance Designing a professional growth plan

31. Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers

34. Resources • Online manual for principals http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/profdev/training/online-evaluation/principal-directions.pdf • Online manual for teachers http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/profdev/training/online-evaluation/teacher.pdf • Online manual for superintendents http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/profdev/training/online-evaluation/superintendent.pdf

36. Coaching for Success “People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.” ~Plato

37. Resources • How to videos for online tool: • https://www.jcps.k12.nc.us/departments/HumanResources/Pages/NCEducatorEvaluation.aspx • Directions for electronic signatures https://mxweb.media-x.com/home/ncval/help/EES_NC_ElectronicSignature.pdf • Teacher Effectiveness Coordinator: Jennifer Preston, jennifer.preston@dpi.nc.gov

38. Contact Information Joyce Gardner Joyce.gardner@dpi.nc.gov