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.