Student Growth Goals

1. Student Growth Goals Fall 2014

2. Agenda/Targets • I will reflect on the Student Growth Goal (SGG) process from last year. • I will identify the changes to the SGG process this year. • I will brainstorm ideas for my SGGs this year.

3. Student Growth Goal Reflection • At your tables, discuss the following things: • What went well last year? • What was confusing? • What would you do differently?

4. Student Growth Goal Reflection • On a sticky note, write down one challenge you faced during the SGG process last year. • On another sticky note, write down one success from the SGG process last year. • Put the sticky notes on the appropriate charts: collaboration, process, assessment, technology

5. Student Growth Goal Reflection • Looking at the charts • Where were our successes? • Where do we still need to work?

6. What are some of the changes to the SGG Process? • Categories of Measures for SGGs • Required Components for SGGs • SGG Quality Review Checklist • SGG Scoring Rubric

7. Categories of Measures for SGGs

8. Required components for SGGs • Content Standards/Skills • Context/Students • Assessments • Baseline Data • Student Learning and Growth Goal • Rationale • Strategies • Professional Learning and Support

9. Rationale • Detailed description of the reasons for selecting this specific area • Discussion of baseline data • Discussion of current practice within school and/or classroom

10. Rationale Example • I chose this goal because our school improvement goal is around reading and my PLC is focused on reading this year. The DRA2 was administered during the first two weeks of school. 32 out of the 58 students are currently reading below grade level. Of those students not yet reading on grade level, many of them are close and this data makes me confident that with strategic interventions this gap can close dramatically by the end of the year.

11. Strategies • Relevant instructional strategies used to help accomplish goal • Can be adjusted throughout the year based on student progress data

12. Strategies example • Create a vocabulary pretest based on the terms used in the essential curriculum and course assessment. • Collect baseline data at the beginning of the course by administering a teacher-generated vocabulary pretest. • Utilize the baseline data to guide instruction for the course. • Provide explicit vocabulary instruction through a variety of vocabulary building strategies. • Provide activities linking health terms to students’ experiences and prior knowledge. • Reinforce knowledge of health terms through multiple exposures to vocabulary in varied sources such as magazines, textbooks, and audiovisuals. • Throughout the semester, utilize several formative and summative assessment tools to collect evidence of student growth. Assessment tools could include pre-post unit vocabulary strategies and embedded daily tasks • Track data from the formative and summative assessments in a systematic format that shows evidence of student growth. • Administer the course assessment and compare results to baseline data to determine student growth.

13. Professional Learning and Support • Opportunity for educator • What additional learning and support do you need to meet your SLG Goals? • Growth Mindset

14. Professional Learning and Support Example • Time to collaborate with teaching partner, educational assistants • Professional development on developing common formative assessments

15. SGG Quality Review Checklist

16. SGG Scoring Rubric

17. QUESTIONS??????

18. Goal Planning Examples & Resources • NCSD Website • Departments • Human Resources • Professional Growth and Evaluation • Goal Setting

19. SGG Work Time • Log On to TalentEd • Begin to fill out your forms, or at least what is possible • Self-Reflection & Professional Goal – Begin to brainstorm/fill out • Brainstorm ideas for SGGs for this year • What area will you focus on? • What assessments/measures will you use? • Should you do this with your PLC? Power in Numbers • Can you use your SGGs from last year? • Use the checklist to see if they meet the criteria • Begin to look up baseline data from last year