Lead Evaluator Training

2013-2014 Ongoing Training

Day 2

Welcome Back!

• [re]Orientation• Lead Evaluator Training• Agenda Review

Lead Evaluator Training

• New York State Teaching Standards and Leadership Standards

• Evidence-based observation

• Application and use of Student Growth Percentile and VA Growth

Model data

• Application and use of the State-approved teacher or principal rubrics

• Application and use of any assessment tools used to evaluate teachers

and principals

• Application and use of State-approved locally selected measures of

student achievement

• Use of the Statewide Instructional Reporting System

• Scoring methodology used to evaluate teachers and principals

• Specific considerations in evaluating teachers and principals of ELLs

and students with disabilities

Year 1

Lead Evaluator Training

• From the Review Room: “Describe the

process by which evaluators will be trained

and the process for how the district will

certify and re-certify lead evaluators.

Describe the process for ensuring inter-

rater reliability. Describe the duration and

nature of such training.”

Ongoing

Lead Evaluator Training

• Continue to collect evidence

• Use collected evidence to rate teachers on

a rubric (with feedback)

• Manage the new system

• Employ growth-producing feedback to

increase the quality of teaching

• Implement the Reform Agenda (RTTT)

Ongoing

Lead Evaluator Training

• Or, to basically increase the likelihood that

all of this can make a difference.

Ongoing

FFT Scorer Distribution

NYSUT Scorer Distribution

Agenda

• Middle of the Year• Artifact Review• Evidence Collection• Scoring (with feedback)• Growth Producing Feedback

Enhancing the Impact of Feedback to Teachers

Background

Authors interviewed teachers, some successful and some struggling, and identified common concerns:• Infrequent visits are unnerving• Uncertain expectations create anxiety• Waiting is difficult• Sense of Disempowerment• Lack of Helpful Information

Directions

Read each of the concerns. As a table, suggest some strategies you could employ to diffuse the concern.

Author Suggestions

• Use effective interpersonal strategies• Sequence the conversation into a

predictable format• Address the teacher’s concerns; listen• Co-develop next steps

Beginning of the Year

The Year at a Glance

Beginning of the Year

• Beginning of the year meeting

• Standards I and II

• SLO and local (LAT) target setting

End of the Year

• Evidence from the year collected

• Compare collected evidence to the rubric

• Summative score determination and communication

Ongoing

• Evidence Submission by Teacher

• Evidence Collection

• Sharing the evidence

• Feedback Conversations

“Middle” part of the Year

The Year at a Glance

Beginning of the Year

• Beginning of the year meeting

• Standards I and II

• SLO and local (LAT) target setting

End of the Year

• Evidence from the year collected

• Compare collected evidence to the rubric

• Summative score determination and communication

Ongoing

• Evidence Submission by Teacher

• Evidence Collection

• Sharing the evidence

• Feedback Conversations

The Year at a Glance

Beginning of the Year

• Beginning of the year meeting

• Standards I and II

• SLO and local (LAT) target setting

End of the Year

• Evidence from the year collected

• Compare collected evidence to the rubric

• Summative score determination and communication

Ongoing

• Evidence Submission by Teacher

• Evidence Collection

• Sharing the evidence

• Feedback Conversations

Artifacts

What have you done in your building to help teachers with the submission of artifacts?

Talk at your table.

Assessment as Evidence

NYS Teaching Standard 5

Assessment

• Balanced Assessment System   Classroom

Assessments

Common Formative Assessmen

ts

Common Interim

Assessments

Student Learning

Objectives

External Assessmen

ts

Examples

Worksheets, classroom response, whiteboards, exit tickets, conferences, student self-assessment

Chapter/unit tests, final projects

Common tasks and prompts assessed with rubric, quizzes

Performances, tests, or writing prompts given every 6-8 weeks

Growth measures designed for use with the APPR growth and local achievement

3-8 tests, Regents exams, SAT, AP

FormatVery formative; can be diagnostic if used prior to instruction

Mostly summative FormativeFormative and summative

Summative Very summative

Responsibility Classroom teachers Classroom teachers

Grade level/discipline teams of teachers working together. District teams of representative teachers may also look at the data

Teachers and lead evaluators/principals

An external group of “experts”

PurposeProvides immediate feedback and guides instructional decisions

Provision of gradesTo assess student learning in order to make instructional decisions. Also serves to assess curriculum, instruction, and pacing.

Conversion to scores for use in teacher and principal evaluation

Accountability and placement

Assessment

Tables work as groups of four for this activity.

1. Each person (of four) picks one of the articles

2. Read your own article (do 3-2-1)

3. Like people meet to discuss and agree on the most important things in the article

4. Go back to original group and share

Assessment

How could you use an activity like this in your school?

The Year at a Glance

Beginning of the Year

• Beginning of the year meeting

• Standards I and II

• SLO and local (LAT) target setting

End of the Year

• Evidence from the year collected

• Compare collected evidence to the rubric

• Summative score determination and communication

Ongoing

• Evidence Submission by Teacher

• Evidence Collection

• Sharing the evidence

• Feedback Conversations

Artifacts

Examine some more artifacts. In your folder you will find:• Assessment examples• Lesson plan example• Friday Folder

example (andannotation)

Back to Assessment

Now that you looked at some assessment, talk about assessments, in general, and what they tell you at your table.

What else would you want to see?

What questions do you have for the teacher?

Back to Assessment

Think about your assessment conversations. Ask yourself:

Are they about common formative assessment? About making instructional decisions based on formative assessment?

Or are they about the administration, scoring, and results of state tests and exams?

The Year at a Glance

Beginning of the Year

• Beginning of the year meeting

• Standards I and II

• SLO and local (LAT) target setting

End of the Year

• Evidence from the year collected

• Compare collected evidence to the rubric

• Summative score determination and communication

Ongoing

• Evidence Submission by Teacher

• Evidence Collection

• Sharing the evidence

• Feedback Conversations

Evidence Collection

• Collect evidence• Clean it up• Code it• Sort it• Score it (use answer sheet to record your

answers)• Leave your totaled sheet behind

Evidence Collection

• How did you do? At your table?

• So what?

• Leave your totaled sheet behind

Growth Producing Feedback

Growth Producing FeedbackPage 1: Talk about what resonates more (or less) for you.

Page 2: Look at the continuum. At your table, talk about each “C” one by one. After each, individually, jot down your recollection of an recent experience in which you acted that way.

Page 3: Individually, list your staff members names in the column that reflects how you most typically interact with each.

Page 4: As a group, look the page over, again talking about what resonates more (or less) for you.

Growth Producing Feedback

At your table, talk about the feedback you would give our teacher after her lesson.

Talk about which “C” is the approach you would take with her.

Closure Activity

Closure: On My Mind

1. On a 5x8 card, write a question about instructional leadership or supervision/evaluation. Write one question per card.

Write one question about instructional leadership or supervision/evaluation

per card.

Closure: On My Mind

2. Circulate the cards around your table. When you encounter a question about which you are curious add a dot to it.

Write one question about instructional leadership or supervision/evaluation

per card.

Closure: On My Mind

3. After three minutes, exchange your table’s cards with another table; repeat

Closure: On My Mind

4. Report out the card with the most dots to the larger group

Write one question about instructional leadership or supervision/evaluation

per card.

On Your Own

Read the “Conference that Make a Difference” article. It sums things up very well.

A Good Resource

Many of the ideas and resources from today’s session come from Paula Rutherford and Just ASK Publications.

If no one in your districthas one of these…please come and take one.

Next Session

• March 17th in Syracuse• March 18th in Cortland

• Agenda will include– Evidence for Standards 6 & 7 (Domain 4)– Summative Evaluations– Growth-Producing Feedback,– including difficult conversations