Growth
This required document is developed annually and focuses on improving professional practice in relation to student learning.
What is a Teacher Professional Growth Plan?
This ongoing process includes observation, feedback, and professional dialogue to support quality teaching.
What is supervision?
This written communication must be provided to the teacher before the process begins and outlines the reasons, scope, and timelines involved.
What is a notice of evaluation?
During a group project, a teacher notices that one student is struggling to participate because of language barriers. The teacher adjusts the instructions, provides additional support, and checks in regularly to ensure the student can contribute.
What is Establishing Inclusive Learning Environments?
This handheld digital pet craze, featuring small egg‑shaped devices, swept the world in the late 1990s?
What is Tamagotchi?
This provincial standard provides the competency framework that informs professional learning goals.
What is the Teaching Quality Standard?
This role is responsible for ensuring that supervision of teachers occurs in a consistent and supportive manner.
Who is the principal?
This action by a teacher can require that a formal evaluation be initiated.
What is a written request for evaluation?
A teacher reviews recent research on assessment strategies and implements a new feedback system to help students track their progress. Afterward, the teacher reflects on its effectiveness and identifies improvements for the next unit.
What is Engaging in Career-Long Learning?
Formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, this rock band became one of Canada’s most beloved musical acts, with nine albums reaching number one on the Canadian charts.
Who are The Tragically Hip?
Under the policy, this person holds primary responsibility for identifying professional learning needs and goals.
Who is the teacher?
This focus distinguishes supervision from more formal assessment processes.
What is professional support and guidance?
This written product summarizes findings and conclusions from the evaluation process.
What is an evaluation report?
When planning a math unit, a teacher selects activities that build on students’ prior knowledge, differentiates lessons for varying skill levels, and uses multiple assessment methods to measure understanding.
What is Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge?
The VH1 music show that displayed trivia and witty annotations in bubbles over music videos was called this.
What is Pop‑Up Video?
This type of learning emphasizes reflection, responsiveness to practice, and continuous improvement over time.
What is career long professional learning?
This expectation requires that information gathered be timely, accurate, and directly connected to observed professional practice.
What is fair and evidence based supervision?
This type of decision may be informed by the results of a completed evaluation.
What is an employment decision?
A parent contacts a teacher with concerns about classroom behavior. The teacher responds promptly, reviews relevant school policies, and collaborates with administration to address the issue appropriately.
What is Adhering to Legal Frameworks and Policies?
The original release of this fast‑food documentary in 2004 showed one filmmaker eating exclusively from one chain to test health effects.
What is Super Size Me?
This requirement ensures that professional learning goals are meaningful, relevant to practice, and responsive to a teacher’s current assignment.
What is alignment to a teacher’s professional context?
All supervisory practices must ultimately be directed toward achieving this outcome.
What is optimal student learning?
This principle requires that conclusions be based on multiple sources of information rather than a single observation or incident.
What is the use of multiple measures of evidence?
A teacher notices a conflict between two students during recess. They meet individually with the students, engage the parents, and work with colleagues to implement strategies that restore a positive classroom climate.
What is Fostering Effective Relationships?
This National Film Board animated short from 1979, featuring a catchy folk song about choosing love over wealth, became a lasting Canadian cultural staple on television.
What is The Log Driver’s Waltz?