Common use of Performance Assistance Team Clause in Contracts

Performance Assistance Team. The Performance Assistance Team is designed to bring direct, focused help to teachers experiencing problems in the classroom. The purpose of this program is to assist teachers to make significant improvements in their performance. Use of the PAT is not mandatory prior to contract action. Teachers unable to remediate deficiencies will find continued employment in the Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Local School District in jeopardy. Each PAT will include the evaluated teacher, the building principal/evaluator, an AWEA officer, an administrator designated by the Superintendent, and a teacher chosen by the evaluated teacher. A teacher may be referred to the PAT by the evaluating building principal on the evaluation form or by the AWEA President to the Superintendent. Referral can also be made by mutual consent of the building principal and the teacher in question. The building principal will take notes during any PAT meeting. These notes will be shared with all team members. If the teacher in question declines to accept the assistance of the Team, he/she will sign a form provided by the Board declining such assistance. The evaluating principal will convene a PAT meeting to define the evaluated teacher’s areas of strength and weaknesses in order to develop a written plan of action or, if an Improvement Plan exists, to review the strengths and weaknesses identified in the Plan. Team members will serve as resource people and be responsible for brainstorming ideas. The teacher’s individual action plan or Improvement Plan will include specific areas needing improvement, a time line for implementing performance, and may include, but not be limited to, specific suggestions for improvement and provisions for classroom observations by the principal/evaluator. Satisfactory participation and improvement by the teacher in question will be determined during the formal written evaluation process and/or as defined in any Improvement Plan by the evaluating principal.