Evaluation of Professional Staff
FILE: GCN
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EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF
The Board requires a program of comprehensive, performance-based evaluations for the teachers and other professional staff members it employs in order to ensure high-quality staff performancethat improves student achievement. Evaluation instruments used by the district will minimally reflect the standards for evaluation of professional staff adopted by the Missouri State Board ofEducation (State Board).
Evaluation of Professional Staff Other Than Teachers
All professional staff members contribute toward the achievement of the district's students and the overall success of the district. To ensure continuous improvement and growth, the supervisorsof professional staff members will set performance goals, conduct continuous performance evaluations and complete a written summative evaluation annually.
Teacher Evaluations
The superintendent or designee will annually complete a summative evaluation of the performance of teachers in the district using an evaluation instrument that incorporates the Essential Principlesof Effective Evaluation as adopted by the State Board.
The primary purpose of the evaluation is to improve student performance by promoting the continuous growth of teachers in a manner that is aligned with the district's ComprehensiveSchool Improvement Plan (CSIP) and,where applicable, building improvement plans (BIPs). Results of the evaluation will inform employment and compensation decisions, but may not be the only factor considered.
The superintendent or designee, in consultation with the district's teaching staff, will develop procedures and instruments for professional staff evaluation.
Teacher Evaluation Standards
Teachers in the New Franklin R-1 School District will be held to the following standards:
Content Knowledge Aligned with the Appropriate Instruction: The teacher understands the central concepts, structures and tools of inquiry of the discipline(s) taught and createslearning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful and engaging for all students.
Student Learning, Growth and Development: The teacher understands how students learn, develop and differ in their approaches to learning and provides learning opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners and support the intellectual, social and personal development of all students.
Curriculum Implementation: The teacher recognizes the importance of long-range planning and curriculum development and develops, implements and evaluates curriculum basedon student, district and state standards data.
Critical Thinking: The teacher uses a variety of instructional strategies and resources to encourage students' critical thinking, problem-solving and performance skills, includinginstructional resources.
Positive Classroom Environment: The teacher uses an understanding ofindividual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages active engagement inlearning, positive social interaction and self-motivation.
Effective Communication: The teacher models effective verbal, nonverbal and media communication techniques with students, colleagues and families to foster active inquiry,collaboration and supportive interaction in the classroom .
Student Assessment and Data Analysis: The teacher understands and uses formative and summative assessment strategies to assess the learner's progress, uses classroom andstandardized assessment data to plan ongoing instruction, monitors the performance of each student and devises instruction to enable students to grow, develop and make adequateacademic progress.
Professionalism: The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually assesses the effects of choices and actions on others and actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally inorder to improve learning for all students.
Professional Collaboration: The teacher has effective working relationships with students, parents/guardians, school colleagues and community members.
Counselor and Librarian Evaluation Standards
The district adopts the model standards for librarians and counselors developed by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and adopted by the State Board.
Record keeping
A copy of the professional staff member 's summative evaluation and supporting documentation will be kept in the employee's personnelfile. (
Adopted: Aug. 17, 2000
Revised: Feb. 17, 2010
July 16, 2014
MSIP Refs: 6.5.2
Legal Refs: ' ' 160.045, 168.128, RSMo.
5 C.S.R. 20 - 400.375
New Franklin R-I School District, New Franklin, Missouri