Sunday, August 1, 2010

Iowa Teaching Standard 1: Student Achievement

Demonstrates ability to enhance academic performance and support for implmentation of the school district's student achievement goals.

Criteria

•Provides evidence of student learning to students, families and staff.
•Implements strategies supporting student, building, and district goals.
•Uses student performance data as a guide for decision making.
•Accepts and demonstrates responsibility for creating a classroom culture that supports the learning of every student.
•Creates an environment of mutual respect, rapport, and fairness.
•Participates in and contributes to a school culture that focuses on improved student learning.
•Communicates with students, families, colleagues, and communities effectively and accurately.

Teacher Behavior

• Mid-terms on time
• Comments on reports
• Notes sent home
• Post grades often
• Communicating
• Follows SIP/IEP
• ESEA
• Volunteer for committees
• Creates lessons to meet goals
• Retesting/ Regrouping
• Uses STARS, CARS, DRP, ITBS, 123
• Student working on own projects
• Observes and evaluates
• Listening to readings
• Not moving on too soon
• IEP Mod/ accommodations.
• Team Teaching (Special Ed; PACT; DQ)
• Visuals
• Tribes
• Being a team player
• Comfortable physical environment
• Music/Movement
• Accessible to students
• Positive interactions
• Tribes
• Lifelong Guidelines
• Enforces expectations
• SIP committees
• Attend meetings
• Monitoring hallways
• Communicates
• Communication Log

Optional Documentation

• Grade book
• Copy of mid-term report
• Rubrics
• Report card
• Letters/e-mails home
• Work on walls
• Student portfolio
• Newsletters
• Syllabus
• Goal Writing
• Mission Posted
• Committee Schedule
• Copy lesson plans
• Assessments
• Lessons with student work
• Class test results
• Lesson plans
• Team meeting minutes
• Differentiated spelling
• Write/rewrite
• IEP
• Running Records
• Show concurrent lesson plans
• Adaptation copies
• IEP pages
• Student journaling
• Multiple assessments
• CST meeting notes
• Survey
• Class rules/expectations
• Lifelong Guidelines
• Community Circle Activities
• Bulletin boards
• Lesson Plans
• Enrichment plans
• Action steps/teacher action
• Notes from meetings
• E-mail
• Planners
• Newsletter
• Conferences
• Phone calls
• Thank you notes

Other Examples of Standard 1 Artifacts
  • Grade book
  • Rubrics
  • Work on walls
  • Letters, email, calls home
  • Student portfolio
  • Newsletters, newspapers
  • Parent-Teacher Conferences
  • Follows IEP/504 Plans
  • Creates lessons to meet goals
  • Show concurrent lesson plans
  • Team meeting minutes
  • Class test results; analyze data
  • Differentiated instruction enrichment
  • Standardized Tests; analyze data, set goals
  • Progress Reports
  • Incorporates reading strategies, multiple intelligences into lessons
  • Cooperative Learning,
  • Project-based assessment,
  • Performance Assessment
  • Parent Communications (phone call log, email log)
  • Class rules/expectations
  • Advisement
  • Lessons Notes from meetings
  • Committee
  • Work Surveys