Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Narrowed Focus

Q:  One district asks: We will focus on ten strategically selected indicators in this first year.  Even we have narrowed our focus in this way, would teachers still be expected to gather and provide evidence of their performance in all 16 indicators?

A:  Selecting a group of Indicators to focus on is an excellent way to approach the evaluation within a district. That said, as you imply, educators are still expected to gather evidence of their performance in all 16 indicators. However the preponderance of evidence can and should rest with those 10 “high priority” indicators. Module 5, which was just released, talks a bit about how individual artifacts and/or observations often provide evidence across multiple indicators, which is there to reduce the perceived “burden” of having to produce individual artifacts for each and every Indicator.

-Claire Abbott, DESE 

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