Teacher Evaluation Assignment

Small Group/ Individual Assignment

Creating an Evaluation System

You are part of a small Focus Group charged with creating a new teacher evaluation system for your school district.  Using the information from Marshall's book, the articles read in class, and your own professional experiences, outline the ideal teacher evaluation model.  Follow the steps given by Marshall in chapter 7 of "Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation".  Those steps are given below.  Two additional steps have been added to complete the assignment.

Step 1:     Decide on Domains    These are the  major categories that define teaching.  For Danielson, they include:  Planning and Preparation, Classroom Environment, Instruction, and Professional Responsibilities.

Step 2:    Decide on a Rating Scale  (What are the levels of proficiency and how many levels will you have?

Step 3:   Sorting the Criteria   What criteria belong under each domain?  Criteria are specific skills that help define the domain.  For example:  "Exhibits fair and respectful demeanor to all students,"  may be a criteria for Classroom Environment.  You only need to provide the criteria or one of the domains you list in Step 1.

Step 4:  Creating the Rubrics   Using your rating scale, describe the required performance level expected to achieve at the various levels.) Create a rubric for at least two of the criteria described in Step 3

Step 5:  Describe the Evaluation Process   What actions will take place to complete your evaluation  process.  Some things to consider:   how many observations;  what kind of observation; who will observe;  what kind of feedback and how is it given;  is there follow-up.

Step 6:  General Reflection ( to be completed separately by each member of the design team)
What is the purpose of your evaluation and how does your design meet that purpose?  Defend the value of your design.  Briefly describe why you included the components you stipulated.  What will make your system work where others have failed?   How have you made your evaluation system valuable for your school district or school site?

Outstanding  5-6	The Norm  3-4	Minimum Competency  1-2
All steps of the assignment are addressed	All steps of the assignment are addressed	All steps of the assignment are addressed.
Responses to each step are clear, succinct, yet with an apparent depth of thought and understanding.	Responses are appropriate and clear and show an understanding of a fair and meaningful evaluation system.	Responses are appropriate but lack clarity and depth.
Reflection provides a clear and thoughtful background for the purposes and process of the designed system.  It also provides a clear defense of why this design could be successful.	Reflection is thoughtful and clear so that the reader  understands the purpose of the system.  An explanation of the value of the system is provided and is appropriate.	Reflection describes the process but provides little insight into the thinking behind the design or the expectations for the system.