To give evaluators a full and complete understanding of the impact Seesaw has on student learning, its ability to
document student growth and development over time, and its capacity to strengthen the home / school connection, we strongly recommend Burlington teachers make their evaluator a co-teacher in their Seesaw class (es).
«For the first time, teachers will consistently have timely, high - quality assessments that are instructionally useful and
document student growth,» said Duncan.
A process portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that
documents student growth from novice to master.
The video
documented student growth in math skills and behavior.
Those graph lines going up,
documenting student growth, can be proudly shared as demonstration of teacher effectiveness.
Not exact matches
... Our analysis thus
documents a key benefit of high - skilled immigration in the US, which relies on innovation for
growth and helps to explain the vociferous complaints by US academic departments about visa restrictions on foreign graduate
students.
Throughout the year, we teachers are required to write up reports that
document our progress, incorporating data measuring
student and professional
growth, evidence of professional collaboration and contributions, and snapshots of successful and extensive family engagement.
The school uses electronic portfolios for
documenting students» academic
growth and success.
In short, this
document feels driven more by philosophy than data, relying on qualitative measures of uncertain value while strongly de-emphasizing
student achievement in general and
student growth specifically.
For Winn, a better alternative would be to base accountability not on a
student's academic «status» at any one point in time, but instead on
documented «
growth» in achievement.
Integrated progress - tracking encourages
students to work toward achievements and allows teachers to
document growth.
State - of - the art Item Response Theory research methods to report on
student achievement and
document growth.
In a recent meeting, teachers on a fifth - grade team discussed the possibility of
students blogging as a way to help them develop as writers, increase their keyboarding skills, and
document their
growth as writers over the course of the year.
Her progress is monitored by a college supervisor who formally observes the
student three to five times during the semester to
document growth and to address challenges.
Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance;
Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of
documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for
students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.
Go beyond the gradebook and look up a
student's portfolio to see the artifacts that really
document learning and
growth.
Have
students been taught how their portfolio artifacts
document their academic achievement and
growth?
Importantly, these tables
document the
growth for groups of
students, not individuals.
If you said «yes» to Question # 4 above, you must submit
documents attached to this application from your last two school years that provide evidence of your effectiveness as a teacher in your current school district (performance evaluations and
student academic
growth data).
Transformational Leader nominees are those individuals that have served a minimum of three years in a leadership position at their current school, and have a
documented history of improved
student achievement and
student academic
growth.
Because
growth looks different for every
student, teachers need a way to
document that
growth and show the progress each
student is making.
A DVD could be included to
document the
growth in a
student's ability to speak in front of the class, as could be examples of group projects from earlier and later in a
student's career, showing improvement in the ability to communicate and collaborate.
Identifying and
documenting emerging case studies focused on collaborative partnerships to implement the CCSS, teacher evaluation systems,
student growth measures
The communication home includes, but is not limited to, class syllabi and expectations, learning targets, learning progressions, tracking forms and portfolio
documents that accompany examples of
student work and
growth.
The focus in Year 2 was on developing district - level curriculum and
documenting student performance and
growth.
One research
document of which I am aware I reviewed here, with the actual
document written by Mathematica and published by the US Department of Education here: «Alternative
student growth measures for teacher evaluation: Profiles of early - adopting districts.»
We're hopeful that the educators and administrators in the Burlington district will continue to think creatively and collaboratively about how we can use Seesaw not only to meet the standards and indicators on the teacher evaluation, but to
document our
students» academic
growth and social and emotional development in ways that a test score never could.
Professional attributes: •
Documented success in providing supervision, care and a safe and nurturing environment aimed at social and academic
growth • Well - versed at imparting individually - based lessons with the aim of meeting the varying needs of each
student • Qualified to recognize inappropriate behavior and implement disciplinary measures accordingly
School Report Cards Rate
Students» Soft Skills is a new article in Education Week that
documents the
growth in schools grading Social Emotional Learning skills.