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Championing Excellence:

Championing Excellence:. New Mexico’s Teacher and School Leader Evaluation Pilot Training. Observations, Walkthroughs, and Feedback. August 29, 2012 What Effective Instructional Leaders Do More Than A Check List Checking Your Current Status 12-24 Walkthroughs Classroom artifacts

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Championing Excellence:

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  1. Championing Excellence: New Mexico’s Teacher and School Leader Evaluation Pilot Training

  2. Observations, Walkthroughs, and Feedback August 29, 2012 • What Effective Instructional Leaders Do • More Than A Check List • Checking Your Current Status • 12-24 Walkthroughs • Classroom artifacts • Student behaviors • Teacher behaviors

  3. Observations, Walkthroughs, and Feedback • Actions of Effective Instructional Leaders • Interim Assessments with Follow-Up • We taught this material, but did the kids get it? Some of them didn’t- why not? How can we get our students invested in their own improvement? • Unit Planning • Working backward from state standards (CCSS), big ideas, and unit assessments • Thoughtful instruction, deeper understanding, and overall better outcomes • Mini Observations (Walkthroughs) • Are teachers on track with curriculum? Do students seem to be learning? Special “attention”? PRAISE?

  4. New Mexico’s Observation Protocol • September 12, 2012 • Understanding the NM Observation Protocol • Planning and Preparation (walkthroughs) • Creating an Environment for Learning • Teaching for Learning • Professionalism (walkthroughs/other evidence) • 12-24 Walkthroughs

  5. New Mexico’s Observation Protocol • September 26, 2012 • Perfecting the Use of the Observation Protocol • Analysis of 3 minute videos • Documentation of evidence • Feedback • Providing Teacher Team and Whole Faculty Feedback • Review of Homework • Using collective feedback to determine school improvement priorities • Using Observation Data to Drive Short-Term and Long-Term Goals • Communicating progress and expectations • State of Instruction Address

  6. New Mexico’s Observation Protocol • Site Visits • Inter-rater reliability • Emphasize School Leader Learning • Pecos Middle and High Schools • 4 administrators • Lybrook Elementary • 3 administrators • 2 interns

  7. Getting Feedback • 1. The training stated it was about the teacher evaluation and all it was about was classroom observations. 2. There was not one chance for questions/discussion prior to my leaving at 3:30pm. 3. The statement was made about our teachers NOT being the sage on the stage; however, the delivery of this training was ALL sage on the stage. 4. The Gates Foundation paid for the MET study which found that principals' observing was important; however, the IREPP out of Stanford consistently finds that it does not improve teaching. The Gates Foundation is struggling with the confliciting research data. Why would I want to spend 2 hours per day doing observations if there is NOT a significant research base supporting the practice AND the results are only worth at most 25% of the new pilot teacher evaluation model?

  8. Getting Feedback • The content was relevant to what we need to be doing in the schools to elicit a high level of teacher and student achievement. • Very positive focus on student outcomes. I appreciated the discussion of the power of evaluations, as well as practical suggestions of what to look for.

  9. Getting Feedback • Opportunity to use the forms with videos • Getting us prepared for the new evaluation system • Very relevant information • No connections are being made to what we are being asked to do; Basically we are being asked to do their work

  10. Getting Feedback • Good information and examples. Face to face is much more effective than webinar(s) • Teams had time to articulate where teachers fall within the rubric and give examples of what we might see and how to move a teacher to the next level • Commitment to the individual domain and the rubric being the norm for findings

  11. Getting Feedback • Some confusion on assignments during the sessions; A common complaint overheard is the length of the day; there is so much information that it becomes difficult to maintain concentration • Sit down for too long…the webinars are not effective; Lots of technical difficulties and very poor reception

  12. New Mexico’s Observation Protocol • Next steps • Site Visits • 23 Fall/25 Spring • Combine districts • Work regionally • November 30 • Complete first formal observations • PED collects data

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