Professional Responsibilities
Communication and Collaboration with Families
The teacher uses multiple effective and appropriate communication and engagement strategies with individual students and families. These ongoing strategies promote two-way communication, active participation and partnerships that contribute to each student’s learning, well-being and development.
Communication and Collaboration with Colleagues
The teacher initiates effective communication and collaboration with colleagues outside the classroom, resulting in improvements in student learning, individual practice, school practice and/or the teaching profession.
District Policies and Professional Responsibilities
The teacher demonstrates understanding by following district policies, state and federal regulations, and the Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators.
The teacher exemplifies effective leadership characteristics beyond their classroom. The teacher helps shape policy at the school, district or state level.
Professional Responsibilities
The teacher consistently pursues best practices and sets, monitors and reflects on progress in meeting short-term and long-term professional goals based on data analysis to improve student learning. The teacher takes appropriate action to meet the goals. The teacher collaborates with colleagues and others to share best practices.
OTES 2.0 Performance Expectations
Communication with families: Is appropriate; About individual students; For well-being
Collaboration with colleagues also improves: Student learning; The teaching profession
Emphasis on the recently revised Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators
The teacher exemplifies effective leadership characteristics beyond their classroom
The teacher helps shape policy at the school, district or state level
The teacher does more than set goals: Consistently pursues best practices; Monitors progress; Reflects on progress; Takes appropriate action to meet the goal(s); Share best practices
OTES 2.0 Performance Levels
Communication and Collaboration with Families
Ineffective
Teacher does not communicate with students and families
Developing
Teacher uses inconsistent or unsuccessful communication and engagement strategies with students and families
Does not adequately contribute to student learning, well-being, and development
Skilled
Teacher uses effective and appropriate communication and engagement strategies with students and families
Development of partnerships that contribute to student learning, well-being, and development
Accomplished
The teacher uses multiple effective and appropriate communication and engagement strategies with individual students and families
These ongoing strategies promote two-way communication, active participation and partnerships that contribute to each student’s learning, well-being and development
Communication and Collaboration with Colleagues
Ineffective
Teacher does not communicate and/or collaborate with colleagues
Developing
Teacher inconsistently or unsuccessfully communicates and/or collaborates with colleagues
Limited improvement of professional practice
Skilled
Teacher effectively communicates and collaborates with colleagues to examine instructional practice and to analyze trends and patterns of student work and student data
Identify and implement targeted strategies for improvement of professional practice
Accomplished
Teacher initiates effective communication and collaboration with colleagues outside the classroom
Improvement of student learning, individual practice, school practice and/or the teaching profession
District Policies and Professional Responsibilities
Ineffective
Demonstrates a lack of regard for and understanding of district policies, state and federal regulations, and the Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators
Developing
Minimal demonstration of understanding of district policies, state and federal regulations, and the Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators
Skilled
Demonstrates understanding by following district policies, state and federal regulations and the Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators
Accomplished
Demonstrates understanding by following district policies, state and federal regulations and the Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators
Teacher exemplifies effective leadership characteristics beyond their classroom
Teacher helps shape policy at the school, district or state level
Professional Learning
Ineffective
Teacher sets short-term and long-term professional goals
Fails to monitor progress
Fails to take action to meet the goals
Developing
Teacher sets short-term and long-term professional goals
Monitor progress
Fails to take appropriate action to meet the goals
Skilled
Teacher sets short-term and long-term professional goals
Monitor progress in meeting the goals based on self-reflection and data analysis
Takes appropriate action to meet the goal
Accomplished
Teacher sets short-term and long-term professional goals
Monitors and reflects on progress in meeting the goals based on data analysis to impact student learning
Takes appropriate action to meet the goals
Teacher collaborates with colleagues and others to share best practices
Professional Responsibilities coaching questions
Communication and Collaboration with Families
What are the multiple means of on-going two-way communication used by the teacher?
To what degree are individual students and their families actively participating in the development of partnerships that contribute to the individual student’s learning, well-being, and development?
Communication and Collaboration with Colleagues
In what ways and how frequently does the teacher initiate effective communication and collaboration with colleagues beyond the classroom?
How well do these communications and collaborations result in improvement of student learning?
How well do these communications and collaborations result in improvement of individual practice?
How well do these communications and collaborations result in improvement of school practice?
How well do these communications and collaborations result in improvement of the teaching profession?
District Policies and Professional Responsibilities
How well does the teacher understand and follow district policies?
How well does the teacher understand and follow state and federal regulations?
How well does the teacher understand and follow the Licensure Code of Conduct for Ohio Educators?
What evidence exists to demonstrate exemplary and effective leadership characteristics beyond the classroom?
In what ways does the teacher shape policy at the school, district or state level?
Professional Learning
What evidence exists for the consistent pursuit of best practices?
By what means does the teacher set, monitor, and reflect on progress in short- and long-term professional goals?
To what degree are the goals based on student learning data analysis?
What actions does the teacher take to meet the goals?
How does the teacher collaborate with colleagues and others on sharing best practices?
Professional Responsibilities Resources
Teaching is simultaneously one of the hardest and one of the most rewarding jobs in the world. We often say that students make it worth it, but there's something else that can make or break your happiness as a teacher: your colleagues.
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Sources
Ohio Department of Education. (2015). OTES-Model-122315.
Ohio Department of Education. (2019). OTES Rubric 12.10.19.v2.clean.
Summit County Educational Service Center. (2019). Ohio Revised Teacher Evaluation System.