Growth and Evaluation Training

Workshop Details

WHEN: Wednesday, 17 September to Thursday, 18 September 2014 & Saturday, 17 January 2015

WHERE: ISKL Ampang Campus

FEES: Free for ISKL Faculty

FOCUS: Professional Growth and Teacher Evaluation

Workshop Overview

James Stronge will be working with ISKL's Supervision and Evaluation committee and administrators on the implementation of this model.

Learning Outcomes

James will help us to understand and to implement his supervision & evaluation model at ISKL. The focus will be on the first 5 standards for his training in September. The January training will focus on the 6 standard.

Below are the outcomes:

Participants should understand why having effective teachers in the classroom is so important.
Participants should be able to use a common vocabulary for the components of the evaluation system.
Participants should have an understanding of each standard, its sample indicators, and its rubrics.
Participants should understand the process by which teachers and educational specialists will be evaluated.
Participants should understand the scale against which teachers are rated.
Participants should understand the required and optional data sources that may be used to collect evidence of the teacher’s or educational specialist’s performance.
Participants should understand what type of educators might be evaluated under the educational specialist system.
Participants should understand the similarities and differences between the evaluation system for teachers and educational specialists.
Participants should understand the alignment of performance standards with data sources.
Participants should be able to make a distinction between evidence and subjective judgment.
Participants should be able to identify evidence toward each performance standard by looking through sample documentation and by watching videos of teachers.
Participants should be able to distinguish between student learning objectives (SLOs) that meet SMART criteria and those that do not. Furthermore, they should be aware of the issues related to SLOs that need to be addressed within the district.

James Stronge

James Stronge is the Heritage Professor of Education in the Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership (EPPL) program at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. He teaches master and doctoral courses, and has garnered approximately $19 million in grants and contracts since joining the faculty of the College of William and Mary. He is also the president of Stronge and Associates, an educational consulting company that focuses on teacher and leader effectiveness with projects internationally and in many U.S. states.

Dr. Stronge's research interests include policy and practice related to teacher quality and effectiveness, and teacher and administrator evaluation. He has worked with numerous state departments of education, school districts, and national and international educational organisations to design and implement evaluation systems for teachers, administrators and support personnel. Recently, he completed work on a new teacher and principal evaluation systems for American schools in South American and launched a project for principals in 2012 in conjunction with the Association of American Schools in South America and supported by the U.S. Department of State. Stronge has presented his research at numerous national and international conferences, and conducted workshops for educational organisations throughout the U.S. an internationally. Among his current research projects are international comparative studies of national award-winning teachers in the United States and China.

Stronge has authored, coauthored, or edited 23 books and more than 100 articles, chapters and technical reports. His most recent books include: Principal Evaluation (2013), Effective Teachers=Student Achievement: What the Research Says (2010), and Evaluating What Good Teachers Do: Eight Research-based Standards for Assessing Teacher Excellence (2010). His 1994 book, Educating Homeless Children and Adolescents: Evaluating Policy and Practice received the Outstanding Academic Book Award from the American Library Association.

Stronge was a founding member of the board of directors for the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation. In 2011, he was honored with the Frank E. Flora Lamp of Knowledge Award, presented by the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals for "bringing honor to the profession" and his "record of outstanding contributions". He was selected as the 2012 recipient of the Millman Award from CREATE in recognition of his work in the field of teacher and administrator evaluation.

Prior to coming to William & Mary, Dr. Stronge taught at Bradley University and also has been a teacher, counselor and district-level administrator. He holds a Ph.D. in educational administration and planning from the university of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He can be reached at james.stronge@strongeandassociates.com

Source: ASCD

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