Idaho Teacher Performance Evaluation Task Force

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Teacher Performance Evaluation Task Force

• What is the Purpose of a Teacher Evaluation?
• Establish a clear definition of what constitutes
  good teaching
• Quality Assurance
• Professional Learning
• Research tells us that the influence of teachers
  is the single-most important factor in
  determining student achievement, even more so
  than socioeconomic status
• (Sanders Rivers, 1996 Collias, Pajak,
  Rigden, 2000).

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• Traditional Teacher Evaluation Models
• An often flawed system due to
• Few shared assumptions about good teaching
• Lack of precision in evaluation
• Lack of factual, concrete data
• No consistency in determining what is a good
  lesson vs. an unsatisfactory one
• Does not allow for reflection and instructional
  conversation on good teaching
• That is why we need the change!

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• An Effective Teacher Evaluation Model
• An effective teacher evaluation system should
  contain the following elements
• Clear definition of teaching, including a
  standard for what is acceptable performance
• Instruments and procedures that provide evidence
  of teaching
• Trained evaluators who make consistent judgments
  about performance based on evidence
• Process for teachers to understand the evaluative
  criteria
• Process for making final judgment

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• What is a Teacher Evaluation?
• Teacher Evaluation is not classroom observation
  alone.
• Procedures that Should be Contained in an
  Effective Teacher Evaluation Model
• Observations of practice
• Conferences
• Samples of student work, with analysis
• Teacher artifacts

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• State Statutes and Board Rule
• Governing Teacher Evaluations
• 33-514 (Issuance of Annual Contracts Support
  programs Categories of contracts Optional
  placement)
• 33-515 (Issuance of renewable contracts)
• 08.02.02.120 (Local District Evaluation Policy)

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State Statute 33-514
District procedures shall require at least one
(1) evaluation prior to the beginning of the
second semester of the school year and the
results of any such evaluation shall be made a
matter of record in the employee's personnel
file.
There shall be a minimum of two (2) written
evaluations in each of the annual contract years
of employment, and at least one (1) evaluation
shall be completed before January 1 of each year.
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State Statute 33-515
After the third full year of employment and at
least once annually, the performance of each such
certificated employee, school nurse, or school
librarian shall be evaluated according to
criteria and procedures established by the board
of trustees in accordance with general guidelines
approved by the state board of education.
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State Board Rule 08.02.02.120
The process of developing criteria and procedures
for certificated personnel evaluation will allow
opportunities for input from those affected by
the evaluation i.e., trustees, administrators
and teachers. The evaluation policy will be a
matter of public record and communicated to the
certificated personnel for whom it is written.
Local school district policies will include, at
a minimum, the following information Purpose Eval
uation criteria Evaluator Sources of
data Procedure Communication of results Personnel
actions Appeal Remediation Monitoring and
evaluation
At a minimum, the policy must provide standards
for evaluating the following personnel First-,
second-, and third-year nonrenewable contract
personnel will be evaluated at least once prior
to the beginning of the second semester of the
school year. All renewable contract personnel
will be evaluated at least once annually.
Each school district board of trustees will
develop policies in which criteria and procedures
for the evaluation of certificated personnel are
established.
Permanent records of each certificated personnel
evaluation will be maintained in the employees
personnel file.
Each district evaluation policy will include
provisions for evaluating all certificated
employees identified in Section 33-1001, Idaho
Code, Subsection 13