At the same time BB is working to become a PLTW/STEM school, Hartselle City Schools is developing a new teacher evaluation model through a pilot program with the State Department of Education. The evaluation instrument, developed by a district-wide team consisting largely of a cross-section of teachers. Meeting one began with the question, "When you walk into a classroom and you see learning, what's going on?" The group broke into sub-groups, answered the question, and posted their answers on giant post-its. With the help of facilitator Grizzle we found the commonalities in the posters across the room and condensed those commonalities into the categories that would become the foundation of the Educator Effectiveness evaluation model.
What does this have to do with PLTW/STEM? It gave us a chance as a district to place additional value on tech in the hands of students, learning targets and I Can statements, student collaboration and problem solving, and more.
Many powerful conversations were generated by those on the development team, and many more broke out among teachers in the district on the first roll-out day. A piece garnering attention is the "What is the student doing" and "What is the teacher doing" break out of the Educator Effectiveness model.
Will some parts of this have to be re-worked? Probably. But how was it developed? Boots-on-the-Ground-Educators got together to Ask, Explore, Model, Evaluate, and Explain. Sound familiar?
What does this have to do with PLTW/STEM? It gave us a chance as a district to place additional value on tech in the hands of students, learning targets and I Can statements, student collaboration and problem solving, and more.
Many powerful conversations were generated by those on the development team, and many more broke out among teachers in the district on the first roll-out day. A piece garnering attention is the "What is the student doing" and "What is the teacher doing" break out of the Educator Effectiveness model.
Will some parts of this have to be re-worked? Probably. But how was it developed? Boots-on-the-Ground-Educators got together to Ask, Explore, Model, Evaluate, and Explain. Sound familiar?