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Enhancing NJ Educator Evaluation for Better Teaching & Learning

Learn about the importance of reforming educator evaluations in New Jersey. Discover the guiding principles for a fair and effective system that acknowledges and supports teachers as professionals. Find out how multiple measures, timely feedback, and high-quality professional development can drive educator improvement. Explore the criteria for teacher practice evaluation and student achievement assessment, including SGP scores and observation requirements.

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Enhancing NJ Educator Evaluation for Better Teaching & Learning

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  1. Achieve NJ Educator Evaluation & Tenure Reform

  2. Why? Guiding Principles • Current evaluations are “perfunctory, subjective, and do not result in better teaching and learning • Students and teachers deserve more! • Should have evaluation system that recognizes and rewards teachers as professionals • Effectiveness should be measured to ensure we have the best teachers in the classroom • Evaluations should be based on multiple measures – not a single test or yearly observation • Timely feedback and high-quality pd are essential to helping educator improve • Tenure and other forms of recognition should be based on effectiveness not time served

  3. Multiple Measures 20% of NJ Teachers Applies to all NJ Teachers SGP Scores: Growth of individual student on NJ ASK from one year to the next and compared to student’s “academic peers” • Teacher practice: Based on evaluations and observations • SGO: Academic goals for groups of students that each teacher wets with their principal or supervisor at the start of school year • Can include: standardized tests; statewide assessments; • Locally-developed measures (tests, portfolios) • 4TH-8TH grade language arts and math teachers w/students that have baseline and end-of-year NJASK scores • Must have 20 student SGP scores, must be in enrolled in teacher’s class at least 60 % of year • As year’s accumulate data, will use median of teacher’s scores

  4. Weight of Evaluation Components 15 % S.A. 50 % Student Achievement 50 % Teacher Practice 85 % Teacher Practice

  5. Observation Requirements • Highlights of Observation Requirements • Long observation: 40 minutes with a post-conference; for non-tenured must also have a pre-conference • Short observation: 20 minutes with a post-conference • One observation must be announced and one must be unannounced

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