Student Growth Measure
Clarifying Statement:
Excellent teachers regularly set learning goals for their students and use a variety of data sources to monitor progress towards these goals throughout the year. The Student Learning Objectives process aims to capture this best practice as a means to allow teachers and teacher appraisers to determine and reflect on a teacher’s pedagogical strengths and areas for growth.
Quick Finds:
Possible Sources of EvidencePossible Sources of Evidence:
- Conferences and Conversations with the Teacher, Including the End-of-Year Conference
- Classroom Artifacts
- Student Data
- Daily Interaction with Others
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T-TESS Alignment to Practice
Student Growth and Student Learning Objective (SLO) are closely aligned with each dimension of T-TESS.
Student Learning Objectives are:
- Student growth goals
- Set by teachers
- Focused on a foundational student skill that is developed throughout the curriculum
- Tailored to the context of individual students
- Designed to help teachers better understand the impact of their pedagogy
- For the purposes of refining instruction.
Distinguished
- Teacher has crafted a high quality SLO
- Teacher has set student growth goals that reflect high expectations for students
- Teacher has consistently monitored student progress, collected data, reflected on his or her
- pedagogy, and made successful adjustments to strategies, as needed
- All or almost all students demonstrated targeted growth
- Most students exceeded targeted growth
Accomplished
- Teacher has crafted a quality SLO
- Teacher has set student growth goals that reflect high expectations for students
- Teacher has monitored student progress, collected data, reflected on his or her pedagogy,
- and made adjustments to strategies, as needed
- Most students demonstrated targeted growth
- Some students exceeded targeted growth
Proficient
Developing
- Teacher has crafted an adequate SLO
- Teacher has set student growth goals that reflect adequate expectations for students
- Teacher has attempted to monitor student progress, collect data, reflect on his or her
- pedagogy, and make some adjustments to strategies, although with limited success
- Some students demonstrated targeted growth
Improvement Needed
- Teacher has crafted an adequate SLO
- Teacher has set student growth goals that reflect adequate expectations for students
- Teacher has attempted to monitor student progress, collect data, reflect on his or her
- pedagogy, and make some adjustments to strategies, although with limited success
- Some students demonstrated targeted growth
Student-Centered Actions
Teacher-Center Actions
