A. Self Assessment Guidance

The purpose of self-assessment is to help the educator or administrator (not the evaluator) set student learning and professional practice goals.

1. The task of examining evidence is to look back on student learning (what students have done) and the growth and achievement that has resulted form that student learning. This could include examining the learning, growth and achievement of your incoming students.

A. Examining evidence of student learning means looking back at what students have done in the past. What sorts of activities have you had students do in order to learn? Look at both curriculum and instruction. This could include examining the student learning of incoming students.

B. Examining evidence of growth and achievement is reviewing the available results of assessments or other performance data. For growth, this could include MCAS SGP. For achievement, this could include grades, attendance, results on district assessments and results on MCAS. Look for patterns in overall performance on certain topics, or subgroup performance (how well low income students do in your class, for example.) You can look at data for students you have taught, or you could look at available data for your incoming students.

C. Summarize your findings in the Teachpoint Self-Assessment Form.

2. The rubric has 4 standards, each standard has 3-6 indicators, and each indicator has 1-4 elements. Use the one page summary “Rubric at A Glance” as a first step to the indicator or element level. This is the third page of any of the rubrics. If you need more detail and explanation of each of the indicators and elements, then go to the main rubric. You could also look back at previous self-assessments, assessments and evaluations in Teachpoint. Summarize your findings in the Teachpoint Self-Assessment Form.

The rubrics and "Rubrics at a Glance" are posted below. These versions are from the DESE, but they are identical to the ones in the contract. DESE versions are posted here because they are visually cleaner.

3. Share the Self-Assessment form with your evaluator. If you and your evaluator have time, review and edit this together. Both of you then sign the form.