Waiver winners rely on a range of measures and methods for
assessing teacher professional practice, including classroom observations, self - assessments and reflection, teaching artifacts, student - learning measures, and surveys of students and parents.
Not exact matches
Increasing each
teacher's capacity to redesign and
assess their own
practice demands new ways of thinking, opportunities for deep collaboration and the willingness of school leaders to engage with academic and
professional partners who will challenge, reflect and provide evidence for each school to create its own evidence - informed
practices and protocols.
New and more established teams will have a chance to
assess their own collaborative habits, learn from other educators, discover more powerful collaborative strategies, and
practice a step - by - step process for implementing
teacher rounds as a strategy for building a stronger
professional culture.
As we work with districts on establishing
professional goal - setting processes, we often hear from
teachers and principals that they are unsure about what kinds of formative assessments of students» learning they should use to set and
assess their
professional goals related to instructional
practice.
iObservation provides data on the effectiveness of teaching strategies,
assesses the level of instructional
practice for each
teacher, and delivers relevant
professional development to improve instruction.
Schools can and should measure SEL inside their walls to gauge how effectively
teachers do this
practice and
assess the need for additional
professional development and support.
CEC trains Illinois principals and others who will evaluate
teachers to pre-qualify them as evaluators by ensuring they are able to demonstrate Illinois statute - required evaluator competencies to
assess a
teacher's
professional practice (Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching) and determine student growth attributable to individual
teachers.
These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach
teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads
professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other
teachers,
assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration
teacher, who models excellent teaching for
teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote
teacher leadership —
teacher leaders can model best
practices, observe and coach other
teachers, lead
teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new
teachers.12
For school communities already committed to providing arts integration
practice, the alternative methods and tools developed in the PAIR project demonstrate how to qualitatively and quantitatively
assess the impact of individual
teacher arts integration
professional development variables on individual student arts integration and academic learning outcomes.
«I want to
practice reflecting with
teachers, establish
professional learning communities and peer learning teams, evaluate program needs and value —
assessing how I can be more effective.
Making
teachers» education more focused on
practice will require many changes, from revised schedules to new methods for
assessing the competence of novice
teachers to new
professional learning opportunities for those who are adopting this approach to
teacher education.
Accuracy requires that we
assess what we think we are
assessing — that is, we are
assessing the
teacher's
professional practices and impact on achievement, not the diligence or socioeconomic status of parents.
Schools can and should measure SEL inside their walls to gauge how effectively
teachers do this
practice and
assess the need for additional
professional development and support.
With MyTeachingStrategies ™,
teachers can seamlessly interact with five key areas that make up what we know to be the essential pieces of high - quality classroom
practice: teaching and
assessing, reporting, ongoing
professional development, and family engagement.