Artifacts of Professional Practice. Products of an Educator’s work and student work samples that demonstrate the Educator’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards.
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Products of an Administrator’s work and staff and student work samples that demonstrate the Administrator’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards.
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Educator developed work products and student work samples that demonstrate the Educator’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards. Caseload Educator: Educators who teach or counsel individual or small groups of students through consultation with the regular classroom teacher, for example, school nurses, guidance counselors, speech and language pathologists, and some reading specialists and special education teachers. Classroom Teacher: Educators who teach preK-12 whole classes and teachers of special subjects as such as art, music, library, and physical education. May also include special education teachers and reading specialists who teach whole classes. Categories of Evidence: Multiple measures of student learning, growth, and achievement; judgments based on observations and artifacts of professional practice; and additional evidence relevant to one or more Standards of Effective Teaching Practice. District-determined Measures: Measures of student learning, growth, and achievement related to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks or other relevant frameworks that are comparable across grade or subject level district-wide. These measures may include, but shall not be limited to: portfolios; approved commercial assessments and district-developed pre- and post-unit and course assessments; and capstone projects. These measures shall be locally-bargained by the parties. Educator(s): Inclusive term that applies to all classroom teachers and caseload educators, unless otherwise noted. Educator Plan: The growth or improvement actions identified as part of each Educator’s evaluation. The type of plan is determined by the Educator’s career stage, overall performance rating, and the rating of impact on student learning, growth, and achievement. There shall be four types of Educator Plans: Developing Educator Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator for one school year or less for an Educator without Professional Teacher Status (PTS). The Educator shall be evaluated at least annually. Self-Directed Growth Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator for one or two school years for Educators with PTS who are rated proficient or exemplary. Directed Growth Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator of one school year or less for Educators with PTS who are rated needs improvement. There shall be a summative evaluation at the end of the period determined by the plan, and, if the Educator d...
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Educator developed work products and student work samples that demonstrate the Educator’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards. This may include photography, videotaping or audio taping, but only by mutual agreement.
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Educator developed work products and student work samples that demonstrate the Educator’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards. Caseload Educator: Educators who teach or counsel individual or small groups of students through consultation with the regular classroom teacher, for example, school nurses, guidance counselors, adjustment counselors, speech and language pathologists, and some reading specialist, special education teachers, some ELL teachers and other Interventionists. Classroom teacher: Educators who teach preK-12 whole classes, and teachers of special subjects as such as art, music, library, and physical education. May also include special education teachers, ELL teachers, computer teachers, health teachers and reading specialists who teach whole classes. Categories of Evidence: Multiple measures of student learning, growth, and achievement, judgments based on observations and artifacts of professional practice, and additional evidence relevant to one or more Standards of Effective Teaching Practice. District-determined Measures: Measures of student learning, growth and achievement related to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks or other relevant frameworks that are comparable across grade or subject level district-wide. These measures may include, but shall not be limited to: portfolios, approved commercial assessments and district-developed pre and post unit and course assessments, and capstone projects. These measures shall be locally bargained by the parties. Educator(s): Inclusive term that applies to all classroom teachers and caseload educators, unless otherwise noted. Educator Plan: The growth or improvement actions identified as part of each Educator’s evaluation. The type of plan is determined by the Educator’s career stage, overall performance rating, and the rating of impact on student learning, growth and achievement. There shall be four types of Educator Plans: Developing Educator Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator for one school year or less for an Educator without Professional Teacher Status (PTS). The educator shall be evaluated at least annually. Self-Directed Growth Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator for one or two school years for Educators with PTS who are rated proficient or exemplary. Directed Growth Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator of one school year or less for Educators with PTS who are rated needs improveme...
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Educator developed work products and student work samples that demonstrate the Educator’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards. Caseload Educator: Educators who teach or counsel individual or small groups of students through consultation with the regular classroom teacher, for example, school nurses, guidance counselors, speech and language pathologists, and some reading specialists and special education teachers. Classroom Teacher: Educators who teach preK-12 whole classes and teachers of special subjects as such as art, music, library, and physical education. May also include special education teachers and reading specialists who teach whole classes. Categories of Evidence: Multiple measures of student learning, growth, and achievement; judgments based on observations and artifacts of professional practice; and additional evidence relevant to one or more Standards of Effective Teaching Practice. Educator(s): Inclusive term that applies to all classroom teachers and caseload educators, unless otherwise noted. Educator Plan: The growth or improvement actions identified as part of each Educator’s evaluation. The type of plan is determined by the Educator’s career stage, overall performance Developing Educator Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator for one school year or less for an Educator without Professional Teacher Status (PTS). The Educator shall be evaluated at least annually. Self-Directed Growth Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator for one or two school years for Educators with PTS who are rated proficient or exemplary. Directed Growth Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator of one school year or less for Educators with PTS who are rated needs improvement. There shall be a summative evaluation at the end of the period determined by the plan, and, if the Educator does not receive a proficient rating, he or she shall be rated unsatisfactory and shall be placed on an improvement plan. Improvement Plan shall mean a plan developed by the Educator and the Evaluator for a realistic time period sufficient to achieve the goals outlined in the Improvement Plan, but not less than 30 school days within the same school year and no more than one school year, for Educators with PTS who are rated unsatisfactory with goals specific to improving the Educator’s unsatisfactory performance. In those cases where an Educator is rated unsatisfactory near the close of a school ...
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Products of a Nurse’s work that demonstrate the Nurse’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards.
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Nurse developed work, products which may include photography, videotaping or audio taping and student work samples that demonstrate the Nurse’s knowledge and skills with respect to specific performance standards.
Artifacts of Professional Practice. All parties agree that only one (1) artifact of professional practice per the following indicators: IA Curriculum and Planning; IIB Learning Environment; IIIB Family Collaboration; and IVC Professional Collaboration shall be provided by each educator.
Artifacts of Professional Practice. Products of and/or directly related to an educator’s work and student work samples. PVPA will provide guidance to educators regarding the expectations for what constitutes artifacts in a given department.
