Winter, 2012 Teacher Effectivensss Day 5

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Housekeeping Parking Breaks and lunch Emergencies

Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) Setting the Stage for Student Learning Objectives and Evidence-Based Performance Evaluation

Day 5 Objectives To investigate more deeply into the guidance document for SLOs through: Analysis of examples Exploration of rules Writing a sample SLO To connect SLOs with classroom observations

5 District Decisions by 6/30/2012 Assess and identify priorities and academic needs. Identify who will have State-provided growth measures and who must have SLOs as “comparable growth measures.” Determine District rules for how specific SLOs will get set. Establish expectations for scoring SLOs and for determining teacher ratings for the growth component. Determine District-wide processes for setting, reviewing, and assessing SLOs in schools.

Who has SLOs and how will SLOs be set? Who Needs an SLO?

Step 1: Determine District-wide Priorities and Academic Needs  Assess and identify District-wide priorities and academic needs. Start with commitments and focus areas in District strategic plans. Decide how prescriptive the District will be and where decisions will be made by principals, or principals with teachers. From NY DOE engageny.org Introduction to SLO Deck

Step 2: Identify who will have State-provided growth measures and who must have SLOs as “comparable growth measures”. 50 – 100% Students Covered by State-Provided Growth Measures 0 – 49% Students Covered by State-Provided Growth Measures 0 – 49% Students Covered by State-Provided Growth Measures

Core Subjects: ELA, Math, SS, Science

Regents courses If a course ends in a Regents exam than for the State Growth the SLO must use the Regents exam as evidence of student learning within the SLO. If the course does not end in a Regents exam than it is not considered a core subject under Regulations for State growth. The SLO for all subjects that do not end in a Regents may use one of the following assessments:

* List of State-approved 3rd party assessments * District- or BOCES-developed assessments provided that the district or BOCES verifies comparability and rigor * School-wide, group, or team results based on state assessments * School or teacher-created assessment

If you are looking for options under locally selected measures, please see: leaders/greenmemo.pdf as there are a number of options for District leaders to choose from and SLOs are only one of a number of options. leaders/greenmemo.pdf

Activity 1: Locate the form “ Teachers with State Provided Growth Measures and Teachers needing SLOs” Identify the groups of teachers that fall into each category Assume, for the time being, that all of the groups have a single assignment (Do not consider at this time teachers who have multiple “preps.”

Activity 2: Determining Types of Assessments Needed for SLO Locate handout “ Determining Types of Assessments Needed for SLO” List the groups from Activity 1 on the left hand side and identify the types of assessment needed for the SLO State assessment Third party assessment Regional/district/school/classroom assessment

Activity 3: Creating a District Assessment Chart Locate “District Assessment Chart” Identify the assessments available in the district other than state assessments by teacher assignment I suggest that this be done by individual districts Note that some 3 rd party assessments can not be used for “growth” (the 1 st 20%)

Break Please be back in 15 minutes

After each case, provide an example and identify the assessment that would be used SLO Exceptional Cases

Case 1: Less than 50% of students have a SGP measurement

Case 2: Multiple Sections w/wo SGP

Case 3: ESL/Bilingual/SWD

Case 4: Co-Teachers

Case 5: Push-in, pull-out

Case 6: NYSESLAT Students

Case 7: NYSAA

Case 8: Special Cases

Another Option

An Example: Must use State Assessments

Another example: Must use State Assessments

Keep in mind:

Activity 4: Determining SLOs Locate the handout With a partner or in a triad, complete the table Be prepared to share out one scenario

Please be back in 45 minutes Lunch

Local Measure: 2 nd 20%

Local Measures: 2 nd 20%

Local Measure: 2 nd 20%

Scoring SLOs

HEDI Bands

Reviewing Examples

Activity 5: Reviewing Examples Locate handout of examples Each team choose one example to review Identify which process was chosen for this example Target for mastery of standards Target for score gain Individual student growth gain Identify which assessment was chosen or required If multiple SLOs, explain the scoring

Activity 6: Creating an SLO Givens: This is an 8 th grade social studies example The teacher class assignments are all grade 8 social studies The pre-test results are provided The SLO must include the results from the state assessment in social studies for grade 8

Tying SLOs to Classroom Observations

Three tools for observations Script Selective verbatim Tallying

Activity 7: Connecting Observations to SLOs Watch a lesson on 8 th grade social studies After seeing the lesson, what evidence might you have to help this teacher achieve her SLO? What might you suggest to this teacher to help insure her students achieve the standards set forth in the SLO? What elements of the teaching standards would apply?