Supervisory Practices for North Carolina Public Schools

Michael Maxson M.EdEDA-551

March 28, 2012

Supervisory Practices• New North Carolina Teacher Evaluation

Program• Observations and artifact review• Professional Development Plan• Differentiation and Diversity of the Evaluation

System• 21st Century Tools Administrators can use

NC the old way…• Observations focused on what the teacher

was doing not the students• Much focus was given on how the teacher was

lecturing to students and that they were quietly observing

• Lesson plans were ignored and seen as secondary to student discipline

New North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Program

• New Evaluation Methodology that is student focused

• Strong Emphasis on 21st Century Learning• Strong Emphasis on diverse and differential

styles of learning with the help of 21st Century Technology

• Evaluations are based on both the observed and not observed (artifacts)

Observations and artifact review

• Observations• Examples of Artifacts

Class Observations• Formal and Informal• Times set by principals in relation to system

and state report deadlines• Number and frequency of observations

depends on the teacher’s years of experience at a particular school system

• Can be adjusted for performance reasons

Artifacts• Lesson Plans• Student Work Samples• Webpage Information• Parent Contact Logs• Video Excerpts of Lesson in Class• 21st Technology Check List• Teacher Reflections

Lesson Plans

• Electronic• Posted Electronically (with or without

password protection) for collaboration and evaluation

• Electronically linked to state curriculum through internet hyperlinks

Student Work Samples• Electronic portfolios of written work• Created files

PowerPoint Spreadsheets CAD Files Many others…

• Pictures of work and hands on activities (for example and Engineering class building a bridge)

• Videos of Student Presentations and displays

Webpage Information• Teacher Contact Info• Class Calendar• Assignments and Lessons• Links to the state curriculum

Parent Contact Logs• Call log• Email• The Future: all parent contacts automatically

logged through communication services

Teacher Reflections• Included as an important part of the

evaluating process• Simple Questions:

What did they feel went well? What did they feel didn’t work? What did they feel would work better when

doing this lesson in the future? What Environmental Factors do they feel

affected the lesson?

Class Recordings and reviews

• Classroom Observations by videoo 21st Century Technology makes this an affordable

reality for public schools• Not to be used in lieu of personal observations

and academic artifacts• Like Student Grades these class videos will be

confidential and never released unless all associated parties in the videos agree.

Professional Development Plan

• Electronic and accessible by teacher, administrators, and other academic coaches and colleges.

• Linked to the vision and goals of the school• Linked to the course of study links and

standards• Linked to the artifacts

Differentiation and Diversity• 21st Century Learning provides for greater

differentiation and diverse learning then ever before in history

• 21st Century Tools Visual Audial Kinesthetic Multi-methods Greater Communication

TOOLS FOR ADMINISTRATORSNC Teacher Evaluation System

21st Century Tools

• Electronic forms for Laptops and Tablets• Technology Checklist• Electronic Artifact Storage• Class Recordings and reviews

Electronic forms for Laptops and Tablets

• No need for paper• More security for confidential information• Better Privacy of notes• No longer a need for transcribing from

handwriting to type• Wireless Networking allows instant data

collection and storage for later

Technology Checklist

• The Technology checklist is a tool administrators can use to evaluate a teacher for Technology use Lesson Plans Web Page Parent Contact Information Grading and Attendance System

Electronic Artifact Storage• Everything stored electronically• Account and Password Secure• Electronic Signatures and certificates• Can be backed up offsite and to multiple

secure sites• Disk space is affordable and getting

exponentially cheaper due to new data storage technologies

Class recordings and reviews

• Viewed later for lesson evaluation• Reflections• Observations of students working behavior

In Conclusion

• 21st Century Challenges• 21st Century Rewards• 21st Century Learning

References• McRel

http://www.mcrel.org/topics/products/386/• North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Teacher

Evaluation • North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission

www.ncptsc.org• Perry R. Rettig, Scherie Lampe, and Penny Garcia.

“Supervising Your Faculty with a Differentiated Model.” The Department Chair 11(2) (fall 2000): 1–21

• Wake County Public Schools

Any Questions…