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PSS updates its system for evaluating performance
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Posted on Jul 17 2011
All teachers and administrators of the Public School System will be evaluated using a new performance evaluation system come school year 2011-2012.
The proposed regulation governing this revised evaluation system was approved by the Board of Education and is now published in the Commonwealth Register.
The performance evaluation shall be conducted on a yearly basis on the teacher’s and administrator’s anniversary date. Administrators are principals and vice principals.
According to PSS, the principal or designee will conduct the evaluation process in which the teacher will participate through the use of self-study assessment, reflection, presentation of artifacts, and classroom demonstration.
For school administrators, the performance evaluation will be conducted by the education commissioner.
The evaluation process for both categories has seven components, including training, orientation, self-assessment, pre-observation conference, observations, post-observation conference, and summary evaluation conference.
At the end of the evaluation process, the principal or the commissioner must give a rating for each element in rubrics, make a written comment, and overall rating on each standard in the rubric.
The teacher or administrator must also be given an opportunity to comment before any recommendation for contract renewal is submitted.
Teachers and administrators who are rated “proficient” will develop an individual growth plan designed to improve performance, with the goal of achieving a “distinguished” rating on all standards. They shall be placed on a monitored growth plan if they are rated “developing” on one or more standards and but will not be recommended for dismissal or non-renewal. PSS will give the teacher and administrator one school year to achieve proficiency.
Those who will be rated “not demonstrated” of any standard shall be placed on a directed growth plan but will not be recommended for dismissal or non-renewal. They also have a year to become proficient.
PSS has 565 classroom teachers and employs about 40 school administrators in its 20 campuses on Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.
