Collecting Evidence

It may seem like a down time for Educator Effectiveness, but there are things you can be doing to help your future self out:

1.  continue to assess and collect data in regards to the progress of your SLO

2.  begin thinking about your mid-point assessment date

3.  continue to collect evidence and artifacts for your Professional Practice Goal as well as your Teacher Practices

Some are nearing our midpoint, so those of you in your non-summary year please remember to schedule an appointment with one of us.  We do not have record of when your midpoint is, but we do have to document that we met to go over your SLO staus.

As always, if you have any questions, please let Angie or me know!

Sheila

Recommended Number of Artifacts for Teacher Practices

Jim sent out an e-mail earlier in the month with a recommended number of artifacts for the "Teacher Practices" section of Teachscape.  Remember, you have to have evidence to prove all 22 components by the end of your summary year. He recommended the following:

Domain 1- 3 artifacts
Domain 2-  2 artifacts
Domain 3- 2 artifacts
Domain 4- 3 artifacts

As he suggested, these are only recommendations, so feel free to use these numbers as a guide as you are uploading artifacts and putting in evidence.

EE Coaching Meeting Overview

Topics covered in our EE coaching meetings on Friday:

• Step 4 Deep Dive: Middle of the Year for Educators due December 15
• Non-summary year people, keep track of when your mid-point meeting will need to fall and make an appointment on our calendars when you are ready
• Teaching practices documents (Danielson Framework for Teaching)
• Amanda's 
• FfT 
• SLO Evidence
• Upload under "Final SLO Score"
• Evidence are statements
• Artifacts are documents
• can put the evidence in the "description" of it
• Copier in Lutzie's office makes PDF files that you can e-mail to yourself

As always, if you have any questions, please us know!

Instructions for Observation

*This may only apply to Summary Year teachers.

In Teachscape, under Teacher Practices there is a tab to read and acknowledge the Instructions for Observation.

FfT 4 Domains; 22 Components

Now that you have submitted your SLO and PPG and begin to collect evidence for them, it's a great time to start documenting your Framework for Teaching teacher practices.  To assist you, we've created a document with the components and their sub-components.  The yellow highlighted components are observable, and the blue are the anecdotal ones.  We've also included the two highest rubric levels.  Feel free to use as you like!

The 22 components will be evaluated in your summary year.

FfT Document

"Accepting" Evaluator's Review

Once you have submitted your SLO, there is a section in TeachScape that you'll have to go to to accept your evaluator's review of your SLO.

To do this, you'll:

• Go to TeachScape
• Select  "Reflect"
• Select Educator Effectiveness Plan (SLO) View
• Go to the 4th one: "SLO #1 Goal and Progress"
• There is a button there that you need to click. 

Content Standards & PPG

 If you are using one of the SLO templates that we provided, for some reason the section to identify your content standard does not show up on one of them.  Please double-check your form to make sure you have your content standard listed.  The first question we will ask you during our meeting is, "What is the content standard you are going to focus on?"

Also, PPGs are due to be submitted on October 31 along with your SLO.

Teachscape Directions Check-Off

Just a helpful reminder that in each section of Teachscape, you will have to verify that you have read the directions. In the Self-Reflection, PPG, SLO, and Teacher Practices sections, the first item on your task list is a set of instructions.  Be sure you click "start", scroll down to the bottom, and be sure to check off that you have read and understand the directions. These directions can be printed and/or accessed at later times as well.

1st Open Lab

As we are now in the month where our SLO and PPG are to be submitted, what we need most is time. So, Sheila and Angie will be holding open labs for MS teachers; you are welcome to come and work on your EEP, meet with us, or ask questions.

The first open lab will be Thursday, October 9 from 2:45-3:30 in Lab 417.   

You do not have to sign up, but bring whatever materials you feel you need to make progress on your SLO and PPG.

As always, if you have any questions, please let us know!

SMART SLO

As you begin to design your SLO keep in mind that you want it to be a SMART goal:

Specific

Measurable

Attainable 

Results-based 

Time-bound

As we coach you through this first SLO meeting a resource we'll be using is "How SMART is Your SLO?"  Our goals are probably pretty smart, but having the rubric might help us hone in on what we really want our students to accomplish.

When you are ready for the "official" first meeting our calendars are on the ride sidebar. Just select the appointment time that works for you and we'll get a notification of the meeting.  

As always, if you have any questions, let us know!

How SMART is your SLO?

Scanner

Are you dreading the idea of scanning documents?  It's actually pretty easy to turn your phone or iPad into a scanner.  Jen Zurawski recommended the free CamScanner app. After taking the photo of a document the app will save it as a jpeg or a pdf.file which can be saved to your device's photo album. However, a great thing about this app is that you can then send the document to Google Drive or Evernote to keep it organized.  And even better, there's no need for a scanner.
We'll talk about this a little more on Friday.
CamScanner App

Assessment

We've all created assessments to gauge student skills and knowledge, but the EE process wants us to pre-assess, administer a mid-point assessment, and do a final assessment with our students.  The process also asks us to document and collect evidence along the way to demonstrate how we are meeting student needs and their progress in relation to our chosen content standard and SLO goal.  What makes a good assessment?  We've created a brief slideshow to help you determine what a good assessment process entails.  Click here to view the slideshow.  As always, if you have any questions, please let us know!

PPG (professional practice goals)

Hello!

There have been many questions about the PPG, and while we are trying to find some samples to share, this is what the DPI EE Teacher Evaluation Process Manual says about PPGs (DPI, 2014, p. 77):

PPG Goal Setting
After developing SLOs and reviewing his or her Self-Rating, the teacher will
develop one PPG that, when aligned to the SLO(s), will increase the likelihood of 
success on one or both of their SLOs. Teachers will document the PPG in the 
EEP and reference the relevant SLO, if applicable, and the related Framework for 
Teaching components. However, teachers may write a PPG that involves 
practices they want to improve that are not necessarily related to the SLO. For 
this reason, DPI recommends but does not require that the PPG support the 
SLOs. 
SMART goals should guide the development of the professional practice goal. 
See Appendix G for guidance on setting SMART goals. 
Developing a PPG will help teachers focus their professional growth and 
evaluators focus activities for the year. However, evaluators will still assess all of 
the components from the Framework for Teaching rubric to provide the teacher a 
comprehensive picture of teacher practice. 

Not sure if that clears things up or not, but at least it is a place to start.

1st Meeting

Thanks to all who attended the meeting today. The best thing to do is to just get started and tackle it in chunks.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Teachscape is now updated to have your required forms and components in it. Log in and take your Pre-Conference Self-Rating form.

TeachScape is not up and running yet; the new date it is scheduled to be ready is September 1. You can still activate your account on the website.

Welcome to the WDPMS Educator Effectiveness Blog!  Here we hope to post links to forms and calendars that will help with the EE process!