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GTEP Resource Manual Training
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The Education Trust Study (1998) Katie Haycock

• However important demographic variables may
  appear in their association with student
  achievement, teaching quality is the most
  dominant factor in determining student success.

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According to Bruce Joyce

• The single most critical factor in staff
  development that affects students is
  implementation.

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Seven Areas of Teacher Evaluation

• The role of the teacher in meeting the schools
  student achievement goals including the academic
  gains of students assigned to the teacher
• Observations of the teacher by the principal and
  assistant principals during the delivery of
  instruction and at other times as appropriate
• Participation in professional development
  opportunities and the application of concepts
  learned to classroom and to school activities
• Communication and interpersonal skills as they
  relte to interaction with students, parents,
  other teachers, administrators, and other school
  personnel
• Timeliness and attendance for assigned
  responsibilities
• Adherence to school and local system procedures
  and rules
• Personal conduct while in performance of school
  duties

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Resource Manual GTEP Categories

• Category 1 GTOI
• Category 2 GTDRI
• Category 3 (b) 1
• Category 4 (b) 3

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Where does each of the criteria for teaching
quality fall within these four categories of
teacher evaluation?
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Two Goals in the development of the GTEP Resource
Manual

• To correlate the seven areas of teacher
  evaluation in Georgia Code 20-2-10 as closely as
  possible with the Georgia Teacher Evaluation
  Program process
• To update the Georgia Teacher observation
  Instrument (GTOI) to include newer research based
  sample effective practices and to align the
  Georgia Teacher Duties and Responsibilities
  Instrument (GTDRI) with the requirements of Code
  20-2-210

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Two Purposes for This Training

• To prepare you to implement a process for
  addressing Georgia Code Section 20-2-210 (b) 1
  and 3
• To enable you to recognize where additional
  scientific research based instructional
  strategies align to the GTOI

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Five Step Process

• 1.Conduct Pre-Evaluation Conference
  (August-September)
• 2. Complete Student Achievement Implementation
  Plan Form and Professional Growth Plan Form
  (August - September)
• 3. Implement and Monitor the Plans
  (September-March)
• 4. Conduct the Annual Evaluation Conference
  (prior to April 1)
• 5. Complete Summary Report (prior to April 1)

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Step One Conduct Pre-Evaluation Conference
(August-September)

• How do you analyze school data to set achievement
  goals?
• How do you link student achievement goals to
  professional development?

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Why use Student Achievement Data?
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How do you analyze school data to set achievement
goals?

• Administrators and teachers should carefully
  analyze available student achievement data and
  prioritize a list of areas for improved
  performance.
• Goals may be established for a whole school, a
  grade, an academic department, or an individual
  teacher.

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• Two Questions to Ask During Data Analysis
• How many students are succeeding in the
  subjects taught?
• Within those subjects, what are the areas of
  strength or weakness?

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How do you analyze school data to set achievement
goals?

• Administrators and teachers should carefully
  analyze available student achievement data and
  prioritize a list of areas for improved
  performance.
• Goals may be established for a whole school, a
  grade, an academic department, or an individual
  teacher.

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What Should a Good Goal Look Like?

• There should be some baseline data that can be
  used to measure improved performance.
• The goal must be specific and measurable.
• It should be a worthwhile goal and require
  specific effort to be attained.
• The method of collecting data to measure the
  attainment of the goal must be clearly stated.

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Sample Goals
80 of students in the first grade will be
reading on the Fountas and Pinnell Level H by
April 2004. 85 of third grade students will be
at the extending writing stage on the third grade
writing assessment in April or have moved at
least two stages on the writing assessment
rubric from September to April. The percent of
students not meeting standard on the fourth
grade CRCT mathematics test will decrease by
15. 98 of the tenth grade students will pass
the mathematics GHSGT on the first try.

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Step One Conduct Pre-Evaluation Conference
(August-September)

• How do you analyze school data to set achievement
  goals?
• How do you link student achievement goals to
  professional development?

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Mike Schmoker defines the real work of
instructional improvement

• the collaborative effort to share, produce,
  test, and refine lessons and strategies targeted
  to areas of low performance, where more effective
  instruction can make the greatest difference for
  students

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Cycle of Continuous Improvement and Professional
Growth
Plan What are my goals? What do I know about
students? Information gathering Developing a
plan
Apply How will I apply what Ive learned in my
classroom to increase student learning?
Teach Implementation in the classroom Assessing
student learning
Reflect What have I learned? -about my
students? -about my teaching? -about the
community of learners at my school?
Adapted from W.E. Deming, Out of the Crisis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for
Advanced Engineering, 1986.
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Step Two Complete Student Achievement and
Professional Development Goal/s Forms

• How are the student achievement and professional
  development goals documented?

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Step Three Implement and Monitor the Plans

• How do you monitor teacher implementation of
  plans?

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Methods for Monitoring

• Review of daily schedules
• Classroom observations
• Attendance at grade level/departmental team
  planning meetings
• Reviewing transcripts from professional
  development activities
• Collecting and reviewing benchmark assessments,
  pre/post test scores administered during the
  school year, progress reports

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Step Four Annual Evaluation Conference

• What happens during the annual evaluation
  conference?

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Step Five Complete the Summary Report

• How does the summary report impact a teachers
  annual evaluation?

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The Scoring Process
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Essential Questions

• What are additional sample effective practices?
• How do you use the sample effective practices?
• What are Guiding Questions and how can they
  promote best classroom practice?

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3-2-1 Summarizing Activity

• 3 ways to use the GTOI Resource Manual
• 2 additional effective practices you would like
  to see being used consistently and pervasively in
  your school
• 1 way you will use the Guiding Questions

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Seven Areas of Teacher Evaluation

• The role of the teacher in meeting the schools
  student achievement goals including the academic
  gains of students assigned to the teacher
• Observations of the teacher by the principal and
  assistant principals during the delivery of
  instruction and at other times as appropriate
• Participation in professional development
  opportunities and the application of concepts
  learned to classroom and to school activities
• Communication and interpersonal skills as they
  relte to interaction with students, parents,
  other teachers, administrators, and other school
  personnel
• Timeliness and attendance for assigned
  responsibilities
• Adherence to school and local system procedures
  and rules
• Personal conduct while in performance of school
  duties