Teacher Empowerment

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Teacher Empowerment

• Exploring alternate evaluation paradigms.
• Or are we locked out of meaningful change?

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Top-down evaluation systems have failed.
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Stop!
Is there a better paradigm?
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QuestionWhy do we evaluate?
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Monitor School Quality?
Yes
Weed out incompetents?
No!
Promote Teacher Quality
Yes!
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Sounds like motherhood and apple pie to me

• OK, describe a good teacher.

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Possesses the Gift.
NO

• Some are born with the gift of teaching.

Knows The Subject Matter
Teachers should come credentialed and prepared
NO
Possesses Teaching Skills
Yes If evaluator knows how to effectively coach
and mentor.

• Teachers who can practice the craft

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Has Productive Attitudes

• Teachers who possess the following
• Self-efficacy (can do attitude)
• Collaborative spirit
• Willingness
• Enthusiasm
• Other
• Can evaluation help?

Good Question!!
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The Teacher Empowerment Paradigm

• Empower teachers to self-supervise.
• Empower teachers to be responsible for their own
  evaluation.

• Is this possible and still maintain
  accountability?

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Two dimensions

• Formative (classroom observations)
• Summative (year-end evaluations)

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Classroom Observations and Teacher Empowerment
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Guidelines

• Collaborate with Teacher
• Establish Purpose or Focus
• Determine Method
• Teacher driven
• Supervisor driven

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The Video

• During filming, concentrate on
• In the critique, concentrate on

focus or goal
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Teacher driven video episode

• Teacher may be in charge of self-videoing
• Use tripod
• Another individual records the video (student or
  adult volunteer)
• Teacher sends a copy of video and self-critique
  form to the evaluator

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Scenarios

• Traditional supervisor observation
• Supervisor makes video collaborative critique
• Teacher makes video
• Remakes?
• Sends to supervisor?

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Formalizing a Video Episode

1. Teacher views video and responds on self-critique
   form
2. Supervisor views video that has been copied and
   mailed
3. Supervisor critiques
4. When Critique form arrives, evaluator compares
   his/her notes with teachers and finalizes
   comments on the focused objective to add to the
   summative evaluation for that year.

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Some examples
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Summative Evaluation and Teacher Empowerment
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Professional Portfolio

• Teachers will provide documentation showing their
  attainment of the performance standards.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

• Accountability has to be a part of a system. The
  basis for accountability are
• Performance Standards

Every employing organization should have in place
a set of expected professional performance
standards for all teachers
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The SYSTEM

• Administrator and teacher collaboratively
  develop
• Professional development plan for the year
• Plan for the collection of appropriate documented
  evidence
• Teacher collects and organizes the portfolio
• Culminating opportunity for each teacher to
  showcase his/her portfolio

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System overview
School Term
Planning Phase Professional goals Professional
Plans Evidence to be collected
Formative Phase Evidence Professional
Activities Organization of Evidence (Portfolio)
Summative Phase Portfolio Presentation Summary
Documents
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Evaluation Models - Applications

• Professional Teacher
• Teacher-empowerment paradigm
• Teacher with specific needs.
• Teacher-empowerment paradigm plan for
  professional goals and documentation developed
  collaboratively
• New teacher Teacher with difficulties
• Traditional top-down evaluation teacher begins
  portfolio development

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Culmination Activity Summative Evaluation

• Teacher Fair
• Each teacher with booth and exhibits
• Opportunity for teachers to learn from each other
• Invite parents? board?

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Portfolio Document Ideas

• Bullock, A. and Hawk, P. (2001). Developing a
  teaching portfolio. Prentice-Hall.C
• Campbell, D. and others (1997). How to develop a
  professional portfolio. Allyn and Bacon.
• http//eduscapes.com/tap/topic82.htm
• http//www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytip
  s.phtml/43

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National Board Certification

• Teachers Guide to National Board Certification.
• Unpacking the standards
• National Board Certification Workbook.
• How to prepare your portfolio.
• www.Heinemann.com

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Examples

• Ileana Espinosa, Associate Superintendent
  ltiespinosa_at_cccsda.orggt

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Dimensions of Performance Standards

• Instruction
• Environment
• Curriculum
• Professionalism
• Community Relations
• Other responsibilities
• More?

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1 Instruction

• Copies of lesson plans demonstrating (a) higher
  level thinking, (b) varieties of instructional
  strategies, (c) cooperative learning, (d)
  multiple intelligences
• Samples of student work
• Sample of teacher feedback
• Photos of learning activities/field trips
• Student projects (group and individual)
• OTHER?

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2 Environment

• Photos of classroom, bulletin boards, etc.
• Notes from parents, students, others.
• Copies of classroom management documents. Rules,
  discipline plan, etc.
• Copies of documents produced by students related
  to student government
• Copy of discipline philosophy
• OTHER?

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3 Curriculum

• Copies of instructional plans, (a) daily, (b)
  unit, (c) yearly
• Copies of grading rubrics used
• Samples of tests
• Information about parent-conferences
• Copies of I.E.Ps and policies regarding S.S.Ts
• Student portfolios
• OTHER?

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4 Professionalism

• Materials from conferences or conventions
  attended
• Documents demonstrating professional memberships
• Evidence of participation in school leadership
  projects
• Copy of personal mission statement
• Letters from colleagues, administrators
• Copies of articles published or convention
  presentations
• OTHER?

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5 Community Relations

• Documents or photos illustrating church related
  projects
• Newsletters published
• Samples of letters used for parent communication
• Products from committees served or led
• Letter(s) from local pastor(s) or community
  leaders
• Photos from church or other community projects 
• OTHER?

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