Performance Rubrics
The purpose of the Westwood Growth and Evaluation System is to promote educator growth over time. The Professional Practice Rubrics are designed to help educators reflect on current professional practices. The Rubrics divide the craft of teaching into domains. There are several rows within each domain. All domains and rows on the rubrics are not equally significant. While the goal is for there to be growth towards proficiency in the ratings over time, educators do not need to be rated proficient in all rows within a domain in order to achieve domain proficiency.
The Rubrics should be used as a means of self-reflection and goal setting at the beginning of the year, on-going discussion throughout the evaluation cycle, as well as for final evaluation ratings at the end of the cycle. At the fall meeting, the educator and the evaluator uses the educator’s self-reflections as a basis for determining the educator’s goals and planned activities to meet those goals. In the fall, if an evaluator has specific concerns about areas of the Rubric, he/she may be directive about the goals for growth for the educator that year.