1. Uniform Performance Standards for Educators Reflective Practice and…The Butterfly Effect LEVEL II Transitions
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2. Problems with Current Evaluation Systems
Unfortunately, even though a teacher’s effectiveness is recognized as the most important factor in improving student achievement, schools rarely measure, document, or use effectiveness
ratings to inform decision-making. The result is that it is difficult to distinguish between poor,
average, good, and excellent teachers. Sometimes termed the “Widget Effect,” schools tend to
assume that teachers’ effectiveness in the classroom is the same from teacher to teacher and, thus, treat them as interchangeable parts. Weisberg, Sexton, Mulhern, and Keeling (2009) indicated that all teachers are rated as great or at least good. In fact, in their study, 99 percent of teachers were rated as satisfactory when their schools used a satisfactory/unsatisfactory rating system; in schools that used an evaluation scale with a broader range of options, an overwhelming 94 percent of all teachers received one of the top two ratings.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

3. Performance Standard 1: Professional Knowledge
The teacher demonstrates an understanding of the curriculum, subject content, and the
developmental needs of students by providing relevant learning experiences.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

4. Performance Standard 2: Instructional Planning
The teacher plans using the Virginia Standards of Learning, the school’s curriculum, effective strategies, resources, and data to meet the needs of all students.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

5. Performance Standard 3: Instructional Delivery
The teacher effectively engages students in learning by using a variety of instructional
strategies in order to meet individual learning needs.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

6. Performance Standard 4: Assessment of and for Student Learning
The teacher systematically gathers, analyzes, and uses all relevant data to measure student
academic progress, guide instructional content and delivery methods, and provide timely feedback to both students and parents throughout the school year.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

7. Performance Standard 5: Learning Environment
The teacher uses resources, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, positive, safe, student-centered environment that is conducive to learning.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

8. Performance Standard 6: Professionalism
The teacher maintains a commitment to professional ethics, communicates effectively, and takes responsibility for and participates in professional growth that results in enhanced student learning..
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

9. Performance Standard 7: Student Academic Progress
The work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable, and appropriate student academic progress.
Sample Performance Indicators
Examples of teacher work conducted in the performance of the standard may include, but
are not limited to:
7.1 Sets acceptable, measurable, and appropriate achievement goals for student learning
progress based on baseline data.
7.2 Documents the progress of each student throughout the year.
7.3 Provides evidence that achievement goals have been met, including the state provided growth measure when available as well as other multiple measures of
student growth.
7.4 Uses available performance outcome data to continually document and communicate
student academic progress and develop interim learning targets.
Reflective Practice:
What went well and why?
What would you do differently and why?
How would you rate yourself and why?
What is your number #1 Plan of Action in this area for next year?

10. Backwards Design Lesson Plan Opening
Student Centered Engagement
Transitions
Formative Assessment
Positive Behavior Management
Closing

11. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before. (*Little implications in each standard can have a big impact.)

12. Application – What might small changes by you in each of the standards we discussed cause a greater effect in your student’s lives and beyond?
Application – How might participating in this webinar cause a small change in your perceptions and abilities that might result in a greater change and effect in your student’s lives and beyond?