1. Teacher Effectiveness Day 5

2. Housekeeping Parking Breaks and lunch Emergencies

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

4. 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. 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.

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Core Subjects: ELA, Math, SS, Science

11. 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.”

12. 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

13. 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%)

14. Break Please be back in 15 minutes

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

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

17. Case 2: Multiple Sections w/wo SGP

18. Case 3: ESL/Bilingual/SWD

19. Case 4: Co-Teachers

20. Case 5: Push-in, pull-out

21. Case 6: NYSESLAT Students

22. Case 7: NYSAA

23. Case 8: Special Cases

24. Another Option

25. An Example: Must use State Assessments

26. Another example: Must use State Assessments

27. Keep in mind:

28. Activity 4: Determining SLOs Locate the handout “Determining which teachers have SLOs” With a partner or in a triad, complete the table Be prepared to share out one scenario

29. Local Measure: 2 nd 20%

30. Local Measures: 2 nd 20%

31. Local Measure: 2 nd 20%

32. Scoring SLOs

33. HEDI Bands

34. Reviewing Examples

35. 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

36. Please be back in 45 minutes Lunch

37. 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

38. Tying SLOs to Classroom Observations

39. Three tools for observations Script Selective verbatim Tallying

40. 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?