Iowa

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Iowas

• Teacher Quality Program

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Intent of the General Assembly

• To create a student achievement and teacher
  quality program that acknowledges that
  outstanding teachers are a key component in
  student success.

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The program's goals are to

• Enhance student achievement and to redesign
  compensation strategies and teachers'
  professional development.

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These compensation strategies are designed to

• attract and retain high performing teachers,
• reward teachers for improving their skills and
  knowledge in a manner that translates into better
  student learning, and
• reward the staff of school attendance centers for
  improvement in student achievement.

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Four Major Elements

• 1. Mentoring and induction programs that provide
  support for beginning teachers.
• 2. Career paths with compensation levels that
  strengthen Iowa's ability to recruit and retain
  teachers.

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Four Major Elements (continued)

• 3. Professional development designed to directly
  support best teaching practice.
• 4. Team-based variable pay that provides
  additional compensation when student performance
  improves.

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Student Achievement and Teacher Quality
Program Senate file 476
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Eight Iowa Teaching Standards

• 1. Demonstrates ability to enhance academic
  performance and support for implementation of the
  school districts student achievement goals.
• 2. Demonstrates competence in content knowledge
  appropriate to the teaching position.
• 3. Demonstrates competence in planning and
  preparing for instruction.

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Eight Iowa Teaching Standards (continued)

• 4. Uses strategies to deliver instruction that
  meets the multiple learning needs of students.
• 5. Uses a variety of methods to monitor student
  learning.
• 6. Demonstrates competence in classroom
  management.
• 7. Engages in professional growth.
• 8. Fulfills professional responsibilities
  established by the school district.

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Teaching Standards

• Standards and criteria serve as a foundation for
  all phases of the legislation
• Induction and Mentoring Programs
• Evaluator Approval Training and Model
• Career Advancement
• Professional Development Networks Support
• Individual and District Career Development Plans

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Attract and retain high performing teachers
by...

• Mentoring and Induction Programs
• Provided for all first second year beginning
  teachers in all public school districts (1300
  per teacher provided by state)
• Districts filed induction program with state
  department for approval before implementation
• Successful completion occurs with a comprehensive
  evaluation that provides a recommendation to the
  Board of Educational Examiners for a standard
  license

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Induction program goals
• To improve teaching performance
• To increase retention of promising teachers
• To promote the personal and professional
  well-being
• To transmit the system culture

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Induction Program - mentors can be an individual
  employed as a classroom teacher or a retired
  teacher
• holds a valid license
• 4 years of successful teaching experience
• commitment to improving teaching and learning
• 500 stipend per semester required by legislation

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Providing ongoing feedback for performance
• Comprehensive evaluation for beginning teachers
  required at the end of year two for beginning
  teachers
• Determine the future license of a beginning
  teacher
• Districts may recommend one more year of
  induction to assist teacher in meeting Iowa
  teaching standards
• Performance reviews at least once every three
  years for all other teachers

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Providing well trained and certified evaluators
• The Evaluator Approval program develops skills in
  the following areas
• Understanding of Teaching Standards/Criteria
• Data Collection Skills
• Feedback Techniques
• Leadership

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Evaluator Approval Program
• 60 trainers in states
• 1500 administrators in regional cohorts/10 days
  of training/certification of skills
• 1,000 award for completion of training for
  administrators

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Quality evaluation processes and tools at local
  levels
• Local districts must have local processes
  developed and implemented by July 2004.
• Must provide Iowa Teaching Standards and Criteria
  for all teachers
• Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Model developed
  by department for use as reference or model at
  local level http//www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese
  /tqt/tc/doc/evalmodv2.doc

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Attract and retain high performing teachers by...

• Beginning teachers
• Comprehensive evaluation at end of second year
  conducted by certified evaluator
• Career teachers (3 years )
• Performance reviews once every three years
• Individual career development plans with
  annual review of supervisor
• Encouraged to use peer review
• Must contain documentation from other
  supervisors, parents, and students
• Intensive assistance to include organizational
  support and technical assistance to teachers for
  remediation

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Reward teachers for improving their skills and
knowledge in a manner that translates into better
student learning

• Career Paths
• High quality professional development
  support for teachers

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Career Path

• Beginning - implemented with induction program,
  comprehensive evaluations to determine licensure,
  minimum salary
• Career I - implemented with minimum salary (01)
  - performance reviews, annual goals for career
  development plans, opportunities for quality
  professional development support to improve
  knowledge and skills by (04).

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Career Path

• Career II - performance review, planned movement
  from Career I to II - minimum salary -
  implementation delayed due to budget restraints
• Advanced - performance review, planned movement
  from Career II - minimum salary - implementation
  delayed due to budget restraints

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Career Path Pilot

• 02 legislature requested recommendations for
  pilots for school districts to implement Career
  II and advanced paths
• Stakeholder group preparing recommendations by
  December 15
• Expect pilots in 02-03 school year

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• Professional Development
• Professional Development Model
• Professional Development State Networks
• District Career Development Plans
• Individual Career Development Plans
• Approval of professional development providers
• Evaluation systems linked to professional
  development

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Iowa Professional Development Model

• Statewide stakeholder group
• External experts
• Comprehensive model
• Student achievement data analysis
• Goal establishment
• Research-based strategies
• Implementation that supports theory,
  demonstration, practice, feedback, study of
  implementation data
• Formative summative data

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Professional Development State Networks...

• State department organizing statewide networks of
  individuals for reading, mathematics, and science
• Study research
• Provide information on best practice
• Assist school districts in determining
  appropriate strategies/programs to meet student
  achievement needs

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Local Districts Career Development Plan

• align with the district Comprehensive School
  Improvement Plan
• action plan strategies to support student
  learning goals
• provide all teachers access to career development
• indicate the LEAs approved career development
  provider(s)

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Individual Teacher Career Development Plans

• based on student achievement goals of the
  building district
• enhance specific skills identified through
• Iowa Teaching Standards and Criteria
• Teacher needs
• The evaluation process

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PD Provider Standards

• Provider will demonstrate that the career
  development program
• aligns with the Iowa Teaching Standards
• focuses on research-based instructional
  strategies aligned with the district's student
  achievement needs and the long-range and annual
  improvement goals
• Provides support to teachers

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Provider Requirements...

• delivers professional development that is
  targeted at instructional improvement and
  designed with the following components
• student achievement data and analysis,
• theory,
• classroom demonstration and practice,
• observation and reflection, and
• peer coaching.

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Provider Requirements...

• includes an evaluation component that documents
  the improvement in instructional practice and the
  effect on student learning.
• supports the career development needs of
  individual teachers.
• integrates the instructional application of
  technology.

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Iowa Teaching Standard

• Engages in professional growth.
• Criteria
• Demonstrates habits and skills of continuous
  inquiry and learning.
• Works collaboratively to improve professional
  practice and student learning.

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Iowa Teaching Standard Engages in
professional growth...

• Applies research, knowledge, and skills from
  professional development opportunities to improve
  practice.
• Establishes and implements professional
  development plans based upon the teacher needs
  aligned to the Iowa Teaching Standards and
  district/building student achievement goals.

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• Proximal -80
• instruction and curriculum
• How I teach.
• What I teach.
• Models with a proven track record.
• teachers armed with a few powerful strategies

• Distal - 20
• process - conflict resolution, meeting
  facilitation skills
• materials - text book adoption
• administrative -site based management,strategic
  planning, scheduling classes

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• Focal point of professional development planning
  and implementation is at the building level.

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Reward the staff of school attendance centers for
improvement in student achievement.

• Team-based Variable Pay
• Pilot basis last school year
• 18 schools from 10 districts
• 1 million dollars established for payment to
  school site if student achievement goals are
  attained

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Team-based Variable Pay

• School teams establish goals with local school
  board approval
• Schools establish valid and reliable assessment
  measures
• School teams decide who will receive building
  awards
• Study is inconclusive
• Recommending another two year pilot

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Teacher Quality Student Achievement