Standard 1
Standard 1 focuses on how teachers demonstrate _____, both in and out of the classroom.
What is leadership?
Teachers lead in many ways, from teaching their students to collaborating with colleagues to sharing their talents with others throughout the school and the district.
A teacher is rated _____ if they consistently maintain a positive and nurturing learning environment.
What is Accomplished?
Proficient teachers establish a respectful and inclusive environment while Distinguished teachers encourage and advise others outside of their classroom on positive learning environments.
Content Content Content
Teachers are rated as _____ if they apply their knowledge beyond their subject matter and motivate students to explore the content area to satisfy their own curiosities.
What is Accomplished?
Developing teachers have a beginning level of content knowledge, Proficient teachers demonstrate appropriate content knowledge, and Distinguished teachers extend their students' desire to learn more than what is required within the content area.
A teacher is rated as ____ when they use various methods of communication and consistently encourage students to clearly articulate thoughts and ideas.
What is Proficient?
A teacher moves to Accomplished when they create various methods for communication and establish classroom practices to encourage student to develop effective communication skills. A Distinguished teacher anticipates possible confusion and develops practices to mitigate concerns and works to develop school wide effective communication skills.
What is Reflect?
Teachers are encouraged to think systematically about student learning and their practice and what can be done to improve student achievement.
A teacher is ranked ___ if he/she creates a safe and orderly classroom, has evidence of data-driven instruction, and participates in a PLC.
What is proficient?
Accomplished teachers use a variety of assessment data to evaluate students and empower students to collaborate.
True or False
Proficient teachers acknowledge there are diverse cultures and demonstrate the awareness of diversity in their classrooms.
What is False?
These are the characteristics of a Developing teacher. Proficient teachers display their knowledge of diverse cultures and acknowledge the influence that diverse races, religion, gender, ethnicity, etc. have on a student's development and attitudes.
Accomplished teachers consistently incorporate different points of view into their instruction and work to include a variety of teaching materials to counteract stereotypes.
True or False?
Accomplished teachers evaluate and reflect upon the effectiveness of literacy instruction.
What is True?
Developing teachers are beginning to integrate instruction, Proficient teachers integrate effective literacy instruction, and Distinguished teachers make necessary changes to their instructional practice to improve student learning.
Teachers are rated as ____ if they consistently use a variety of data to monitor student performance and respond to individual learning needs to engage students in learning.
What is Accomplished?
Developing teachers know that data is important, while Proficient teachers use a variety of data to plan instruction and monitor plans to enhance instruction.
True or False?
All observations must be at least 45 minutes long.
What is False?
A formal observation is 45 minutes or the length of a full lesson, and informal observations are at least 20 minutes.
A teacher is ranked as _____ if they model the tenets of the Code of Ethics for NC Educators and encourage others to do the same.
What is Distinguished?
Accomplished teachers know and uphold these tenets while Proficient teachers demonstrate ethical behavior.
Teachers are ranked as Proficient if they regularly communicate and collaborate with the home and community to benefit students.
What is True?
Accomplished teachers recognize obstacles families may face and work to overcome them. Teachers are rated Distinguished if they promote trust and understanding throughout the school community.
The North Carolina Standard Course of Study drives our instruction.
True or False?
A teacher is rated as Accomplished if they consistently demonstrate knowledge of the content they teach and its connections with the standards, and they relate content to other disciplines when relevant.
What is True?
A Proficient teacher demonstrates knowledge of the standards while a Distinguished teacher collaborates with teachers from other grade levels to influence school wide curriculum and instructional practices.
True or False?
An Accomplished teacher identifies developmental levels of students and consistently and appropriately differentiates instruction to meet student needs. Alternative or adapted resources are used to capitalize on students' strengths and weaknesses.
What is True?
A Proficient teacher understands developmental levels of students and appropriately differentiates instruction and assesses resources. A Distinguished teacher stays abreast of current research on student learning and encourages the school to adopt them to benefit students.
In Standard V, a teacher is rated as _____ if they actively investigate alternative research based approaches to improve teaching and learning and appropriately use these approaches in their classrooms.
What is Accomplished?
A Proficient teacher considers research based approaches to improve teaching and learning, and a Distinguished teacher adapts their professional practice based on data and evaluates the impact on student learning.
True or False?
Professional Learning Communities and collaboration are so important to our profession. Teachers are ranked as Accomplished when they assume a leadership role within their PLC and collaborate with school personnel on school improvement activities.
What is True?
Teachers are ranked as Proficient when they participate in a PLC and help to implement the school improvement plan.
Teachers are ranked as Distinguished when they collaborate to improve the quality of the entire school and implement our school improvement plan throughout the building.
True or False?
Teachers are rated as Accomplished if they collaborate with specialists who can support their students with special needs and provide unique learning opportunities (ie. inclusion) for their students with special needs.
What is False?
These attributes show a Proficient teacher. Accomplished teachers understand the roles and collaborates with the full range of support specialists and effectively engage special needs students in activities to ensure their unique learning needs are met.
True of False?
An Accomplished teacher consistently integrates core content with 21st century content throughout their daily lesson plans and instructional practices.
What is True?
A Proficient teacher is able to identify relationships between content and 21st century skills while a Distinguished teacher deepens students' understanding so they are able to make their own connections and develop new skills.
A teacher is rated as ______ if they teach students the processes needed to think creatively and critically, develop and test innovative ideas, synthesize knowledge, draw conclusions, reason, understand connections, make complex choices and analyze and solve problems.
What is Accomplished?
A Proficient teacher demonstrates the knowledge of these processes, and a Distinguished teacher encourages and assists teachers throughout the school to integrate these skills into their instructional practices.
True of False?
The evaluation tool is based solely on what is observed during the observation?
What is False?
A teacher's evaluation includes information from walkthroughs, participation within PLCs and committees, and involvement in all aspects of the school.
True of False
Teachers are rated as Proficient if they participate in developing policies and practices to improve student learning.
What is False?
Teachers are rated Accomplished when they help develop policies. Proficient teachers support positive change, while Distinguished teachers provide strong supporting evidence for implementation of improvement initiatives.
True or False?
Developing teachers hold high expectations for their students.
What is True?
Proficient teachers communicate these expectations, Accomplished teachers encourage and value the contributions of all students and Distinguished teachers help students hold high expectations for themselves and their peers.
True or False?
Proficient teachers promote global awareness in their classroom while Developing teachers integrate global awareness activities throughout their lesson plans and instructional practices.
What is False?
Proficient teachers promote global awareness in their classroom while ACCOMPLISHED teachers integrate global awareness activities throughout their lesson plans and instructional practices. Distinguished teachers promote these practices and their relevance beyond their classroom, influencing curriculum throughout the school.
A(n) ____ teacher uses multiple indicators to monitor and evaluate student progress and inform instruction.
What is Proficient?
An Accomplished teacher uses assessment information to improve teaching practices and provides students opportunities to assess themselves.
New teachers and teachers in their renewal year will have three observations on all standards. Teachers in an abbreviated evaluation cycle will only be rated on Standards ___ and ____.
What are One and Four?
Standard evaluations will have at least one formal observation. Abbreviated evaluations can be formal or informal.