Evaluations

0 Are you an innovator? 0 Is your classroom highly engaging?

0 Do you care about bettering your best teacher practices in order to

help students succeed?

0 If you said YES to at least one of these questions, then you are

already on the road to success! Now its time to recognize your achievements by providing you with: -ACCURATE, DETAILED FEEDBACK -SUGGESTIONS AND CORRECTION PLANS TO IMPROVE LEARNING -PROOF OF YOUR SUCCESS lets take a look

TEACHNJ
Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey Act
What does this law mandate? GOAL: Raise Student Achievement (C.18A:6-118)
0 Who: Teachers in collaboration with faculty, staff, administrators, students, and the community 0 What: Teachers being provided value-added evaluations to improve instruction 0 When: NOW (but in manageable increments) 0 Where: In our classrooms, school, and overall community 0 How: Evaluations that -PROVIDE specific feedback -INFORM provision of aligned professional development -INFORM personnel decisions 0 Why: FOR STUDENT GROWTH!!! 0 Remember our ultimate goal is to have students learning

So what is
Provides details and support for districts to implement the new tenure law (TeachNJ) effectively

then?
AchieveNJ Guiding Principles

1. Educator effectiveness can and should be measured to ensure our students have the best teachers in the classroom.

2. Evaluations should always be based on multiple measures that include both learning outcomes and effective practice. No teacher or principal should ever be assessed based on test scores alone, much less a single test.
3. Timely feedback and high-quality professional development, tied to evaluations, are essential to help educators improve. 4. Evaluation and support systems should be developed with significant input from educators. 5. Tenure and other forms of recognition should be based on effectiveness. As codified in the new tenure law passed in 2012, educators should be recognized and rewarded based on the outcome of meaningful evaluations rather than simply time served.

With the new evaluation system we are essentially moving away from little feedback and the Bad Teacher Mentality to.

Looking at the Whole Picture to Improve Effectiveness and Learning

Still feeling a little unsure?

0 Key Points: 0 Value being added to evaluations 0 Effective and Highly effective teachers are being honored 0 Expectations are now clearer 0 Test scores are only part of overall evaluations 0 Evaluations will be used to help facilitate learning, rather as an I Gotcha method
0 Questions? Ask away

Useful Links:
More info about AchieveNJ: http://www.state.nj.us/education/Achieve NJ/ More info about TeachNJ: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/ PL12/26_.PDF

NEW LAW= NEW OPPORTUNITIES

NEW EVALUATIONS= VALUE