Evaluation of People and Talent
The graduate evaluates faculty and staff performance to create a productive work environment that supports a school’s mission, vision, and values, and adheres to human resource law, policy, and ethical practice.
School principals are responsible for evaluating and supporting faculty and staff performance to create a productive work environment. This work environment should support the school or district’s mission, vision, and beliefs (or values) while also adhering to human resource law, policy, and ethical practice. This task will give you the opportunity to demonstrate competency in performing a classroom observation and using your observations to create a professional growth plan (PGP).
In this task, you will act as West Oak Cove’s principal to conduct a classroom observation using the attached “Classroom Observation Form” and one of the videos from the “List of Classroom Observations” attachment. Then you will use the results from the classroom observation to draft a professional growth plan. This plan is designed to help the teacher improve instructional practice and better align to the mission, vision, and beliefs, which are as follows:
Mission
At West Oak Cove, we prepare all students to prosper in a rapidly changing and diverse world. In addition to rigorous academics, our students are taught to value diversity, use critical thinking for solving real-world problems, and develop a growth mindset.
Vision
Our vision is to be a model of progressive education by incorporating new and evolving evidence-based pedagogical practices that support our students’ innate curiosity, compassion, and courage.
Beliefs
• Education is learning how to learn.
• All students are capable of learning when a growth mindset is reinforced.
• Diversity makes a community strong.
• Everyone is deserving of kindness.
• Integrity is the foundation of academic excellence.
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Using the attached “Classroom Observation Form,” conduct a classroom observation of a recorded lesson in the “List of Classroom Observations” attachment.
B. Using the attached “Teacher Professional Growth Plan,” create a professional growth plan with two areas for professional growth that aligns to the mission, vision, and beliefs. The professional growth plan must be designed to help the teacher improve an aspect noted from the classroom observation.
C. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
D. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.