| On Board Online • March 26, 2012 By Pilar Sokol This year school districts and BOCES are preparing for the implementation of student learning objectives (SLOs) to be used in teachers’ annual professional performance reviews (APPRs). School districts and BOCES will start using these measures in the 2012-13 school year when no student growth data is available from state assessments for the purpose of calculating the state’s 20 percent of a teacher’s evaluation score under the APPR law. SLOs will be academic goals set at the start of a course or class that establish what students must know and be able to do by the end of the course. Teachers’ student growth scores will be based on the level to which their individual SLO goals are met. |
| On Board Online • March 26, 2012 By Pilar Sokol Districts and BOCES also need to establish their expectations for the scoring of SLOs, and for determining teacher ratings within the four rating categories of highly effective, effective, developing and ineffective and the associated state prescribed scoring ranges. What level of student growth will they deem appropriate for each of those categories? |
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