Explanation of the Rubric and Performance Ratings
_________is a tool to assess teachers' performance in relation to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and to create a plan for their professional growth.
What is the North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Process?
The annual evaluation requirement for career-status teachers can be met by conducting two informal observations and rating the teacher on Standards One, Four, and Six.
What is an Abbreviated Evaluation?
What should teachers do when selecting materials and developing lessons?
A. Promote stereotypes
B. Counteract stereotypes
C. Ignore stereotypes
D. Incorporate stereotypes
What is
B. Counteract stereotypes?
Teachers align their instruction with the __________ to ensure that students are taught the required content and skills.
What is the North Carolina Standard Course of Study?
Teachers adapt resources to address the strengths and weaknesses of students.
What is providing individualized resources?
The reason teachers collect and analyze student performance data.
What is improving classroom and school effectiveness?
Training, Orientation, Teacher Self-Assessment, Pre-Observation Conference, and Observations.
What are the Components of the North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Process?
A product resulting from a teacher's work that is used as evidence to support an evaluation rating and resolve any potential disagreements between the evaluator and teacher. They are natural by-products of a teacher's work and can be exemplars of their work.
What is an artifact?
Teachers should teachers maintain __________for all students.
What are high expectations?
Project-based learning activities, real-world applications, and inquiry-based projects that connect the curriculum to students' interests and experiences.
What strategies can teachers use to make the curriculum rigorous and relevant for their students?
How teachers differentiate their instruction based on influences on student learning.
What is using different teaching strategies?
Teachers engage in continued, high-quality professional development that aligns with State Board of Education priorities reflects global educational practices, and meets professional growth needs.
How do teachers link their professional growth to their professional goals?
May include self-assessment, reflection, presentation of artifacts, and classroom demonstration(s)?
What are the ways teachers actively participate in the evaluation process?
While both play vital roles, the __________ oversees the evaluation process, conducts observations, assigns ratings, and is responsible for determining the evaluation outcome. In contrast, a _____ is a trained teacher who can provide feedback and support to the evaluated teacher, but they do not have the same formal evaluation authority.
What are the similarities and differences in the roles of "Evaluator" and "Peer" in the teacher evaluation process?
One way teachers can appreciate differences and student value contributions.
What is building positive relationships?
One way teachers can promote global awareness and its relevance.
What is teaching the North Carolina Standard Course of Study?
Understanding the levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of students and ensuring the appropriateness of students' academic, physical, social, and emotional development.
What are the considerations when planning instruction?
Use formative assessments, standardized test scores, and student work samples to analyze learning trends, identify areas of improvement, and tailor their instruction accordingly.
What are examples of how teachers collect and analyze data to improve effectiveness?
Probationary teachers undergo at least three formal observations, with one conducted by a peer.
Career status teachers are evaluated annually and have at least three observations, including one formal observation, during the year of their summative evaluation.
How does the evaluation process differ for probationary and career-status teachers?
__________ sets the standards of professional conduct for educators, which is crucial in evaluating a teacher's overall performance and ethical behavior. It provides a framework for assessing a teacher's adherence to ethical principles, which can influence their overall evaluation rating and status.
What is the Code of Ethics for North Carolina Educators?
Inclusion and other models of effective practice, teachers use to engage students and ensure the special needs of all students are met.
What is collaboration with specialists?
Knowing and utilizing links between grade/subject and the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
What is one-way teachers can know the subject beyond the content they teach?
Sharing ideas and strategies with colleagues to create effective instructional plans, using student performance data, adjusting teaching methods, and setting goals for student improvement.
What is collaboration with colleagues/planning?
Tools teachers use to adapt, remediate, enrich, and enhance instruction and practice.
What is research and data?
During the Pre-Observation Conference, they will discuss the teacher's self-assessment, professional growth plan, and upcoming lesson(s) to be observed, preparing them for the observation by providing context and insights into the teacher's goals and objectives.
What is the role of the administrator in the Pre-Observation Conference?
The __________ is a data-driven approach to evaluating a teacher's impact on student learning, providing a quantifiable measure of a teacher's effectiveness in fostering student growth. It requires a reliable and valid growth model to assess a teacher's impact accurately, and care must be taken to ensure that external factors beyond a teacher's control are appropriately considered.
What is the impact of Student Growth Value?
Ways a teacher may better recognize and consider the influence of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and other aspects of culture on a student's development and personality.
What is engaging in self-reflection or ongoing learning?
Develop and apply strategies to make the curriculum rigorous and relevant.
How do teachers do to enhance the North Carolina Standard Course of Study?
One way that teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills.
What is encourage students to ask questions?
Learning in their classroom: why learning happens and what can be done to improve student achievement
What do teachers think systematically and critically about?