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U-46 has process model to evaluate teachers


By Seth Hancock
  To comply with the Performance Evaluation Reform Act, adopted by the state in 2010, a committee in School District U-46 has created a process to measure student growth in order to evaluate a teacher’s performance.
  Suzanne Johnson, assistant superintendent of Teaching and Learning, as well as district teacher Alisha Wildermuth, presented the plan at a Board of Education meeting in May.
  The definition of student growth, according to Johnson, is “a demonstrable change in a student’s or group of students’ knowledge or skills, as evidenced by gain and/or attainment on two or more assessments, between two or more points in time.”
  The committee used Charlotte Danielson’s framework for teaching which includes four domains: Planning and preparation, the classroom environment, instruction and professional responsibilities.
  Johnson said there is no uniformity in measuring the effects of the planning and preparation as well as the professional responsibilities domains but the classroom environment and instruction domains “are directly observable and the primary focus during the teacher appraisal cycle.”
  Wildermuth said teachers will be using a Student Learning Objective (SLO) process in which teacher’s will fill out a template with a partner to rate if a student’s growth is unsatisfactory, needs improvement, proficient or excellent.
  “To begin the SLO process, the teacher must first identify his or her reflective partner or partners,” Wildermuth said. “The reflective partner can be any willing licensed teacher or administrator currently in U-46.”
  During the process the teacher will work with their selected partner and will fill out the template at a beginning point, midpoint and ending point. The teacher will rate the growth based on questions concerning baseline, student group/interval, learning objective, rationale, strategies, assessment, targeted growth, summary and outcome.
  Johnson said the SLO process, which the ratings will be entered into an online system, will make up 30 percent of a teacher’s summative rating with the Illinois State Board of Education.
  In the 2016-17 school year, Johnson said a teacher will have to go through the process once, but starting the following year teachers will have to do the process twice. She said it is the “sole determination of the teacher” when the process begins and there is “no required length” to the process, but the process must be completed by March 1 for pre-tenured teachers and April 15 for tenured teachers.
  U-46 CEO Tony Sanders lauded the committee for not taking the state’s default model and the district for not hiring an outside firm to develop this system. Board member Jeanette Ward expressed gratitude for developing this in-house instead of spending resources on an outside agency.
  Board member Sue Kerr said she worries about “just doing the minimum” when complying with state mandates to which Johnson said “compliance is not a lever that ever moves student growth or our practice as educators.” Johnson said most teachers already evaluated themselves like this but “our practitioners now have control over” the process.
  Kerr asked if this process will make teachers afraid to try new things and Johnson said “outcome is certainly a part of it, but we’re also looking at the practice that gets to that outcome.” Wildermuth said nearly 300 teachers went through a trial run in the 2015-16 school year.

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