...Cambridge Public Schools TEACHER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FORM Teacher’s Name: Evaluator’s Name: School Year: Observation Dates/Time/Duration: Position: Position: Date: School/Department: School/Department: EVALUATION KEY: UL: Unsatisfactory and lack of satisfactory progress over time; U = Unsatisfactory; 1, 2, 3 – Low to high satisfactory performance range; NA = Not applicable or not observed CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION Planning and Preparation 1. Communicates high standards and expectations to students. 2. Is up to date regarding curriculum content. 3. Effectively plans instruction. 4. Curriculum reflects State and CPS frameworks and learning expectations. 5. Effectively plans assessment of students’ learning. UL U 1 2 3 NA 6. Monitors students’ understanding of the curriculum effectively and adjusts instruction, materials, or assessments where appropriate. Comments: Instruction 1. Makes learning goals clear to students. 2. Uses appropriate instructional strategies. 3. Uses appropriate questioning strategies. 4. Evaluates, tries innovative approaches, and refines instructional strategies, including use of technologies, to increase student learning and confidence to learn. UL U 1 2 3 NA 1 Teacher 9/06 Comments: Learning Environment 1. Creates an environment that is positive for student learning and involvement. 2. Maintains appropriate standards of behavior, mutual respect, and safety. 3. Promotes confidence and perseverance...
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...School Administrators has struggled for many years to create an implement an effective teacher evaluation system. To accomplish this lofty goal, the Mississippi Department of Education implemented a world-class teacher evaluation system used in every school in Mississippi. The vision of the department was to create a teacher evaluation system that would ensure teachers are providing students with the knowledge and skills to be successful in college or the workforce and productive members of society. Nonetheless, one of the popular and effective teacher evaluation models is Marzano’s Teacher Evaluation Model. However, when juxtaposed, one finds that the Marzano’s and Mississippi’s Teacher Evaluation Model share several similarities and...
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...individuals of the society by building programs that will help them further develop their skills and give them knowledge and values that they can use in the future. The institution is committed to provide activities and offering services that will hone them to become competent individuals in the future. GUIDANCE SERVICES/PROGRAMS | SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES | ACTIVITY/METHODS/STRATEGIES | TIME FRAME | MATERIALS | TARGET PARTICIPANTS | Testing Services * Entrance Examination * Personality Tests * Mental Ability * Aptitude Tests * Achievement tests * Assessment of Values and Habits * Emotional adjustment | * The students will be able to gain further knowledge about their strengths and weaknesses * The guidance counselor and teachers will be able to provide basis for research and information on other needs of the student * The students will be able to know their potentials | * Notification of applicants * Administration and scoring of tests * Interpretation of tests results * Dissemination of test results | * April to May 2014 * All year round | * Test papers * Folders | * Incoming First Year College Students * All Students | Information Services * EnrollmentOrientation * Consultation Information Forum | * To provide information to the new students the college, its organizations, activities, occupational opportunities and education trends and development * To keep the students informed about the developments, events and issues...
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...setting goals for yourself it is critical that you honestly assess whether or not they are achievable, otherwise you are doomed to failure. If you achieve something, it must have been achievable. Things that are considered achievements usually require some dedication, skill, perseverance or intelligence. Things that may or may not be achievable, or possible, include solving global warming and world hunger. If you want to fly to the Sun on homemade wings, check with Icarus on whether or not that’s achievable. 3. TECHNICAL QUALITY- the degree to which the physically measurable attributes of procedures in dental care meet professionally acceptable standards. 5 ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT CLEAR TARGETS- are the instruction for teachers and...
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...regarding teacher evaluation. Identify components of an excellent system for teacher evaluation. Support your choices from the readings. Teacher evaluation is an essential part of the educational process. In order to ensure that students are receiving high quality educations, it is necessary to include some elements of summative evaluation; however, the most important is formative. I believe that the most relevant evaluations which I have received included both summative and formative evaluation. While evaluating my effectiveness in the classroom, it also provided specific areas of my practice which could improve to make me a better teacher. Quality control evaluation, according to Sergiovanni and Starratt, “protects students and the public from incompetent teaching while evaluation focused on professional improvement “guarantees quality teaching and schooling for students and the public” (Sergiovanni & Starratt, p. 236). An excellent system for teacher evaluation would include elements of both summative and formative assessment. I believe that, as an administrator, I will attempt to implement (if allowed by union agreement) a colleague evaluation as one of the formal assessments after being at the school for a few years. This process will only work when teachers are able to see that my focus is to ensure that they reach their professional goals and not to “get rid of them.” By establishing a trust with my staff, it will be possible for the teachers to evaluate...
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...TDSB e-Summer School 2015ENG4UE: English University PrepCourse Outline | Teacher: | Contact Information: Adobe Connect Tutorial Time: A regular time will be set up following our first week of classes and we will have Adobe Connect meetings every day. Course Description This course emphasizes the consolidation of the literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for success in academic and daily life. Students will analyze a range of challenging literary texts from various periods, countries, and cultures; interpret and evaluate informational and graphic texts; and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on using academic language coherently and confidently, selecting the reading strategies best suited to particular texts and particular purposes for reading, and developing greater control in writing. The course is intended to prepare students for university, college, or the workplace. Assessment and Evaluation To promote student success, ongoing formative assessment and feedback will be given to students. As required by the Ministry of Education, students will be assessed in the four areas of the achievement chart. The chart below provides percentages for each category. The chart below provides the strands under each assignment will be evaluated. All evaluations are expected on the due date, however, they will be also accepted up and until the ultimate due date at 11:59pm. Given...
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...Grading system versus written evaluations The grading system has been embedded in our education system for many generations now. Students have been assessed based on their knowledge and skill of various subjects based on their performance on a piece of paper. From that, they are awarded grades with A’s being the best signifying superior knowledge and F’s being the worst. Recently however, many have started to wonder how written evaluations instead may be more beneficial and thorough in assessing a student’s performance. Although I agree with written evaluations being a more suitable means of evaluating any student, let us first explore how written evaluations and the grading system vary in terms of providing quality assessment of students, time cost and finally how it may help in the working environment. Both the grading system and written evaluations vary in providing quality assessments of the students. The grading system mainly merely tests on the students understanding and grasp of concepts. However, as information is easily accessed from books and the internet, students may only be memorizing facts and vomiting them out on paper instead of properly understanding what they mean. Moreover, the grading system does not provide valuable input on which areas the students may be weak at and what he or she could improve on. Written evaluations on the other hand however would be provided by teachers that are familiar with the students. They would be able to give insight to the...
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...in the classroom. When using computer technology in the classroom, one must find the course of action to correctly guide lessons for the curriculum so that students can reach their optimum goals. Ultimately to mark how each student is doing in the classroom we must locate software for formative and summative assessments. After all, a teacher’s ultimate goal to be able to teach our students and also be able to document what those students have learned. In that light one, the teacher must look a number of things, how can technology assist in efforts to assess student learning? What are formative assessment and summative assessment and how do they compare and differ? What are the pluses and minuses of using technology in the classroom? Should only technology be used in assessing learning? These are the questions that teachers seek to answer and justify. First, let us explore assessments in the classroom. Why is assessment necessary? What are formative and summative assessments? And how do teachers use these assessments in the classroom? Assessment is a huge topic that surrounds everything from statewide accountability tests to district benchmark or interim tests to everyday classroom tests. In order to confront with what seems to be an over use of testing, educators should frame their view of testing as assessment and that assessment is information. The more...
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...relationships with others. Recognizing what others see in us is something that we may not be aware of and accept. One must believe and trust an individual before sharing personal information ("Johari Window," 2010). This paper will discuss some profiles of my personality characteristics and evaluation results. Also summarize assessment results. Then analyze how the scores play a part with relationships and career choices. The profile of my features displays my personal preference and is consistently decisive. I tend to get work done under stressful conditions. I show a lot of positive feedback as a manager. I am extremely confident with my work and decisions. Managers are not perfect, so we tend to make mistakes and learn from them. Being able to take criticism makes an individual a better person and a good manager. Being able to work long hours and with standing prejudices and biases situation is one of my strong points (Schermerhorn, Osborn, Uhl-Bien & Hunt, 2012). My primary mission as a leader is change. I have a lot of concern on what my employers want in life and always thinking of the long term. In this position, I am not only a leader but a teacher. Employees tend to strive for success under my guidance. I am extremely inspirational and love to increase the hope and expectations of all. Getting everyone to agree with my thoughts comes from my power of influence. I make the views where it is a winning situation. Everyone benefits and...
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...COMMUNICATION AND EVALUATION IN PLANNING I. COMMUNICATION IN EDUCATIONAL PLANNING INTRODUCTION Educational planning is as old as state education, that is, much older than economic planning. Until comparatively recent times, however, educational planning was haphazard rather than deliberate, a matter for local rather than central government, concern with individual educational systems, and no effort was ever made to state the objectives that planning was supposed to satisfy. The Second World War change all that: the post-war explosion in the demand for education, the new interest in central economic planning, the obsession in growth rates with both developed and developing countries combined to promote a new attitude to the administration of education. Educational planning by the State with the purpose of promoting economic objectives is now as universally approved as economic planning itself. Consider the curious predicament of an educational planner who consults the fast-growing literature on the economics of education for guidance in making policy decisions. On the one hand, he is told to gear the expansion of the educational system to quantitative forecast of the demand for highly-qualified manpower. On the other hand, he is urged to project what id quaintly called. I.I GENERAL PRINCIPLES The issue of communication has been a subject of interest and curiosity ever since the beginnings of human society. It took centuries to explore the working...
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...MODULE IN ED 740-CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT BY FIRMA CACCAM VIRAY, Ph. D. Professor And ESTRELITA TOLENTINO GAMIT, Ph.D. Asso. Professor OPEN UNIVERSITY CENTRAL LUZON STATE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CITY OF MUNOZ, NUEVA ECIJA PHILIPPINES INTRODUCTION The excellence in the program in any institution reflects the quality of program planning and development. Education is no exception: the quality of individual school programs varies quite directly with the quality of program planning. The programs of individual schools, classrooms and of individual students usually mirror distinctly the nature and extent of the planning and development of these programs by teacher and students (Saylor and Alexander, 1966). Curriculum development is a complex undertaking. Its complexity and difficulty are perhaps heightened by the usual absence of a set of clear ideas or models and planning and the how and theory of curriculum planning and development (Beauchamp, 1961). ASSUMPTIONS OF CURRICULUM PLANNING (Saylor and Alexander, 1966) 1. Quality in educational program has priority in educational goals. 2. The curriculum itself must be dynamic and ever changing as new developments and needs in our society arise. 3. The process of curriculum planning must be continuous, not limited and must be dynamic. 4. No master curriculum plans will serve all schools. 5. Many individuals participate in curriculum planning. 6. Procedures of curriculum planning...
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...Cheryl Robinson ECH-435 7-28-2015 Karen Hutter Assessments in the Classroom Understanding what children know is important for teachers to plan instruction that meets the needs of all students. Formative Assessments are used to guide daily instruction and help teachers to determine whether students understand the concept being taught and how to move them to the next level. . Teachers use these assessments to see how the student is progressing as well as the understanding of new concepts and skills. The assessment provides information needed for teachers to adjust their instruction and way of teaching if necessary. There are several ways in which the assessment can help teachers gain the necessary information in the classroom. 1. Observations- Gather information of student learning through direct play and classroom involvement. This can also help teachers with instructional planning. 2. Questioning Strategies- Used for teachers to get the depth of student understanding and develop deeper thinking skills in students. 3.Goal Setting and Student Involvement- Students understanding og the goal at hand and whats needed to reach it. Summative Assessments are used at the end of a unit to see how well students understand the overall concepts of an unit . It may be use in the form of essays, short answer exams, or multiple choice questions to check for understanding. It may also be used for part of the...
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...Assessment and classroom learning By Black, Paul, Wiliam, Dylan, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice Mar1998, Vol. 5, Issue 1 ABSTRACT This article is a review of the literature on classroom formative assessment. Several studies show firm evidence that innovations designed to strengthen the frequent feedback that students receive about their learning yield substantial learning gains. The perceptions of students and their role in self-assessment are considered alongside analysis of' the strategies used by teachers and the formative strategies incorporated in such systemic approaches as mastery learning. There follows a more detailed and theoretical analysis of the nature of feedback, which provides a basis for a discussion of the development of theoretical models for formative assessment and of the prospects for the improvement of practice. Introduction One of the outstanding features of studies of assessment in recent years has been the shift in the focus of attention, towards greater interest in the interactions between assessment and classroom learning and away from concentration on the properties of restricted forms of test which are only weakly linked to the learning experiences of" students. This shift has been coupled with many expressions of hope that improvement in classroom assessment will make a strong contribution to the improvement of learning. So one main purpose of this review is to survey the evidence which might show whether or...
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... Lesson 17: Assessment in a Constructivist, Technology-Supported Learning SUMMARY: WHAT IS ASSESSMENT? It is the process of making some evaluation; the act of assessing. WHAT IS CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY? Constructivist theory is a theory to explain on how knowledge is constructed in the human being when information comes into contact with existing knowledge that has been developed by experiences. Constructivism as a theory of learning has existed for over one hundred years but has no been widely accepted or applied in public schools.this theory is just a posed of behavioral theory. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED LEARNING? It is used to encourage students especially in facilitating student centered learning activities. It is more than technology enhance instruction. It recognizes that learning is supported in many different ways, even if there is no formal teaching involve. Students study and learn based on the way they are tested. The type of assessment anticipated appears to influence how and what they learn. therefore, the quickest way to change the way students learn is to change the way learning is assessed. In a technology-supported classroom, the student learns from and with the technology. Technology is seen as a source of information that the students learn from in the same way that the teacher are the source of information.. the students master facts from the concepts from technology and with the aid of technology. Reflection: ...
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...Scenario Evaluation Plan Christina Bowers HSM/270 April 23, 2015 Kristen Peak The Madison Children’s Hospital mission is to the worldwide leader in improving children’s health by providing the highest quality of health care. To do this they need to be the leading source of research and discovery, educate the next generation of leaders in child health, and enhance the health and well-being of children and families in our local community (Appendix B). With this goal I have chosen the Project-Wide Evaluation Plan. The Project-Wide Evaluation Plan has what the Madison Children’s Hospital needs. A evaluation question, source of information, timeline, method and responsible person (Yuen/Terao, 2003, p.53).The Madison Children’s Hospital goal is to make the children better and do research to figure out how to control the chronic illness. Researchers suspect the unmanaged status of the children’s chronic illnesses is strongly related to this concern. The hospital and schools are very interested in addressing this concern (Appendix B). Biobehavioral studies of the children in the context of family and family-community dynamics are encouraged. The FOA is for ages 8-21, they are put into groups of developmental stages and cognitive disabilities (Appendix B). The children is what matters the most, and finding a cure for their chronic illnesses. Performance measurement is the ongoing monitoring and reporting of program accomplishments and progress toward pre-established goals...
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