North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Online Training
Elkin City SchoolsSeptember 29, 2011
Accessing the Back Channel http://todaysmeet.com/elkinprin
promotes
1. Assessing teacher performance2. Designing a professional growth plan
Evaluation Instrument
EffectiveLeadership
StudentLearning
Quality Teaching
McRel Online Tool Updates
Updates Include
• Record of Teacher Evaluation Activities• Summary Rating Form• Self-generating PDP• Drop down menu for school year• Electronic Signature – screen shot directions• Teacher status
New User Manual• Principal Manual includes sections on:
– Login– Completing a teacher observation, self assessment, summary rating
form, PDP, and record of teacher activities form– Completing a principal self-evaluation, summary goal form, creating a
group, evaluation, summary rating form, progress towards goals and summary goal form
– Plan, manage, and schedule observations– Reports– Set up for exporting data
Teacher Evaluation Process
STEP 1:Training and Orientation
STEP 2:Self-Assessment, Goal
Setting and Pre-Conference
STEP 3:Observation Cycle
(Administrative and Peer)
STEP 4: Summary
Evaluation and Goal Setting
PDP’s and Preliminary PDP’s
• PPDP’s do not track to the Record of Teacher Activities yet.
• PPDP is for teachers who did not have a summary rating from last year.
• PPDP’s can be accessed from the teachers view.
STEP 2:Self-Assessment, Goal
Setting and Pre-Conference
Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers
When creating another observation, the administrator has the option to copy the previous observation so
that the items that were previously checked will show in the new observation
Employee Transfers
• The releasing district must delete the teacher from their spreadsheet before the receiving district can add the teacher to their spreadsheet.
How important are comments and artifacts?
Timeline for Success
• Instructional Leader• Look at your yearlong calendar, then
create a workable schedule for your observations.
• Prioritize your scheduled observations
Best Practices for the Process• Meet with the teacher in the classroom
whenever possible.• Ensure the teacher of the confidentiality
and discretion for their continued growth.
• Use clear and direct conversation with specific examples.
• Document! Document! Document!
Online Module
NCEES Reminders & Enhancements• Full use of the online tool is required beginning July 1, 2011.
This includes teachers, principals, and assistant principals.• Clean your cashe file for better functioning of the online tool.
http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahic.html• Please remember forms will travel with teachers inside districts
but will not travel if a teacher changes districts.• Ensure your spreadsheet is accurate before sending it to McRel
to avoid sending multiple copies in a short period of time.• Create the Record of Teacher activities form for teachers now.
The form will automatically date as forms are signed but it will not back-date any document.
Abbreviated Evaluation Policy Updates
Annual Evaluation Policy
• Each local board shall adopt a policy requiring career teachers to be evaluated annually. The annual evaluation requirements shall be met by either:
(1) Using the Teacher Evaluation Process as set forth in 16 NCAC 6C.0503; or(2) Using an abbreviated evaluation consisting
of Standards One, Four, and Six of the Teacher Evaluation Process.
Sixth Standard for Teachers:
TEACHERS CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF STUDENTS.
The work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable progress for
students based on established performance expectations using appropriate data to demonstrate
growth.
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Adding Standard Six:
Concerns about Annual Evaluation:
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The new evaluation instrument is more thorough and specific, and, therefore, takes
longer for evaluators to complete.
The House and Senate budgets reduced the number of assistant principals.
Principals may not have time to complete the entire evaluation process for all staff
members.
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Annual Abbreviated Evaluation:
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Requirements for Abbreviated Evaluation:
1. Teacher Self-Assessment2. Professional Development Plan3. Two Informal Observations (at least
twenty minutes each)4. Summary Evaluation Conference (on
Standards One, Four, and Six)5. Summary Rating Form (on Standards
One, Four, and Six)
Moving Forward:
Over the next year, sixty teacher work groups will design measures of growth for
non-tested grades and subjects.
A vendor will advise the Teacher Effectiveness Work Group on the selection of
a student growth model.
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Proceeding with Caution:
No teacher will be evaluated on the sixth standard until he or she has three years of
valid student achievement data.
When three years of data are used, the chance of misclassification of a teacher is
lower.
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Proceeding with Caution:
Using the current data for grades 3 – 8 math and English Language Arts
teachers, less than five percent are not making expected growth.
Under the current EVAAS system, nearly 80 percent of teachers stay in the same category (not detectably different) each
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Effective Educators:
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Issues for Consideration:
The Teacher Effectiveness Work Group will consider:
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1. The measures of growth used to rank a teacher on the sixth standard.
2. The number of ratings associated with the sixth and eighth standards.
3. The “cut points” used to separate teachers and principals into ratings.