Teacher Evaluation

1. Teacher Evaluation Old Way vs New Way

2. The Old Ways of Thinking • Dr. Marzanosays that the old ways of teacher evaluation were "a paper chase". Teacher evaluation systems were either based on either measurement of student success or (teacher) development. • Measurement models left out key areas such as teacher/student relationship and classroom management as those aren't key indicators of student success in the short term.

3. Key Events Which Led to Change • No Child Left Behind • Race to the Top - comprehensive changes which included federal funding applied for by 40 states and the DOC, Washington was not one of the original grant applicants. • Linked to the development and implementation of CCSS • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - research project "Measures of Effective Teaching" (MET) • The Widget Effect – 2009 (Gates Foundation)

4. The Widget Effect

5. Race to the Top

6. Key Research Which Led to Change • Linda Darling-Hammond – Stanford University (Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education) • Robert J. Marzano - MarzanoCenter; Teacher, Leader Evaluation - Marzano Framework, adopted in many states and over 600 districts and counting • Charlotte Danielson - The Danielson Group, The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument (adopted by LWSD)

7. The New Way The nation is following the guidelines and research found in these studies and implementing teacher evaluation systems with these key components - • focus on development • comprehensive and specific • includes a developmental scale • acknowledges and rewards growth (teacher and student) • includes both measurement and development • student growth is a key component • choices for different states or even within the state • standardized tests vs. key growth indicators which are used in WA state • What we were afraid of -

8. A Systemic Approach to Teacher Evaluation and the Support of Effective Teaching • Start with Standards • Create Performance-Based Assessments • Build a Standards-Based System of Local Evaluation • Create Structures to Support High-Quality, Fair, and Effective Evaluation • Create Aligned Professional Learning Opportunities Linda Darling-Hammond

9. Connections and Important Ideas • Distinguished teachers are student focused. (whole brain, whole student) • As Teacher Leaders we have the opportunity to influence and train other teachers. These are two areas we could have high impact - • Create Structures to Support High-Quality, Fair, and Effective Evaluation • Create Aligned Professional Learning Opportunities

10. Recommendations • Linda Darling-Hammond – Supports using standardized teacher performance assessments like those used for National Board Certification. (Be Prepared!) • Continue in our pursuit of being effect and influential teacher leaders in our classrooms, buildings, and district.

11. To Sum it Up… • THE DANIELSON GUIDE TO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE THANKSGIVINGUnsatisfactory: You don't know how to cook a turkey. You serve a chicken instead. Half your family doesn't show because they are unmotivated by your invitation, which was issued at the last minute via Facebook. The other half turn on the football game and fall asleep. Your aunt tells your uncle where to stick the drumstick and a brawl erupts. Food is served on paper plates in front of the TV. You watch the game, and root for the Redskins.Basic:You set the alarm, but don't get up and the turkey is undercooked. Three children are laughing while you say grace. Four of your nephews refuse to watch the game with the rest of the family because you have failed to offer differentiated game choices. Conversation during dinner is marked by family members mumbling under their breath at your Aunt Rose, who confuses the Mayflower with the Titanic after her third Martini. Only the drunk guests thank you on the way out. Your team loses the game.Proficient: The turkey is heated to the right temperature. All the guests, whom you have invited by formal written correspondence, arrive on time with their assigned dish to pass. Your nephew sneaks near the dessert dish, but quickly walks away when you mention that it is being saved until after dinner. You share a meal in which all family members speak respectfully in turn as they share their thoughts on the meaning of Thanksgiving. All foods served at the table can be traced historically to the time of the Pilgrims. You watch the game as a family, cheer in unison for your team. They win.Distinguished: The turkey, which has been growing free range in your back yard, comes in your house and jumps in the oven. The guests, who wrote to ask you please be invited to your house, show early with foods to fit all dietary and cultural needs. You watch the game on tape, but only as an video prompt for your family discussion of man's inhumanity to man. Your family plays six degrees of Sir Francis Bacon and is thus able to resolve, once and for all, the issue of whether Oswald acted alone. • http://youtu.be/wo8EyEdubkA

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