Teacher Evaluations Achieve NJ & Tenure Jaddy Sorge Supervision

Teacher Evaluations Achieve NJ & Tenure Jaddy Sorge Supervision & Evaluation

Why Growth is Important Education is a social process. Education Is growth. Education is not a preparation For life; education is life itself.” -John Dewey

Individual Professional Development Plan Provides goals for individual Develop activities in objectives related to: improving teaching Learning Student achievement Helps with student growth Aids in teacher growth

Why Growth is Important. Students Shows how well students have learned certain subject matter or skills Shows student performance Teachers Shows the effectiveness of teachers Shows improvement of teaching practices

Teacher Observations Unannounced Observations: Teachers just receive Post-Conference Announced Observations: Teacher get Pre-Conference, & Post-Conference

Looking at Teacher Evaluations Teacher Performance Teacher Evaluations

What do your Summative Scores Mean. A Summative Score ranges from 1-4, which includes a combination of: Observations SGOs SGP The scores would yield a teacher’s performance for the academic year as follows: Ineffective Partially Effective Effective Highly Effective At the end of the academic year, you will have a meeting with your principal/supervisor to discuss your performance for the year.

After the Scores. Corrective Action Plan (CAP) For Ineffective & Effective CAP Scores: Meeting to set Goals for new academic year Teacher & Principal/Supervisor-create a plan to discuss what professional needs teacher needs to address Plan will be created with a timeline & goals teacher needs to meet A mid-year evaluation to discuss progress is scheduled

Professional Development Plan (PDP) ALL Teachers will have to create a PDP @ the beginning of the school year Must include 20 professional hours for the year Must include a teacher self-directed goals (based on discussed observations & district improvement goals) Teacher & Principal/Supervisor will hold a meeting to discuss the PDP

Incoming New Teachers New teachers hired after August 6, 2012 will need to meet the following criteria to be eligible for tenure. 4 years of teaching Mentorship program (only for 1st year of teaching) Must have Effective or Highly Effective ratings in 2 of the 3 last years

Tenure Track

Tenure Track Cont’d New Tenure Law Year 1 Year 2 (consecutive) Ineffective Ineffective Partially Ineffective Ineffective Ineffective Partially Ineffective Partially Ineffective Partially Ineffective Action Charges must be filed with the state. Superintendent can file with the state or extend one more year

What New Teacher Need to be Successful.