1. Wilkes County Schools- K12 PE Staff Development
Successfully Understanding Your Performance Expectation
NOVEMBER 6, 2012

2. NC TEACHER EVALUATION KEY CONCEPTS:
 During your post conference, one of the goals is
for you to self-reflect.
 You should walk away with the feeling that you
can do this. You should know the expectation. If
not, you should ask.
 You should walk away with several concepts
that you need to focus on. How could you have
made this lesson better?
 You should not be keeping piles of
documentation, however, should be able to
justify your performance.

3. CONT.
 So what does it mean to be developing,
proficient, accomplished, or distinguished?
 Let’s look closer at each at the key words of
each standard and focus on “proficient”

4. STANDARD 1A
 Keywords: Teachers lead in the classroom:
taking responsibility, preparing students for
life after school, communicating your vision
to the students, using data and various types
of assessments to evaluate progress,
establishing a safe and orderly classroom

5.  Standard 1A (Examples):
- What actions can you show that you treat
students just like they were your own in helping
them prepare for the future? (What evidence can
you show that you have bent over backwards to
assist your students?) Tutoring on your own,
student conferences, sending home grade reports
frequently, parent contacts, conversations with
other teachers,
- Students should be highly engaged with the
teacher being the facilitator.
- You should have evidence of data collection that
reflects: daily, unit, benchmark, and summative
assessments. Formative assessment should be
a regular practice.

6. STANDARD 1A
 Preparation and planning should be a focus.
Your plans should be differentiated and
address all student needs. Should include:
global awareness, 21st century skills, literacy,
technology, etc.
 Students should know your expectations,
procedures should be in place, strategies
should be in place to manage the class,
orderly, etc.

7. STANDARD 1B
 Keywords: teachers working collaboratively,
PLC’s, analyzing all data sources, providing
input about the school budget and staff
development, input on hiring decisions.
 1B indicators (examples):
- Working and getting along with other
teachers
- Serving on a variety of school based teams
and committee’s such as your school SIT
team or leadership team, athletic task force,
etc.

8. STANDARD 1B
 Assisting in the hiring of new teachers (Ask
to be a part of this process)
 Mentoring new teachers
 Participating in PLC’s or creating your own
among your PE department
 Know your school improvement plan and
know how you can contribute to achieving
those goals

9. STANDARD 1B
 Getting along with others, being a team
player
 Completing task asked by your principal that
contributes to the vision of the school
 Writing or implementing grants
 Seeking community partnerships to achieve
school goals

10. STANDARD 1C
 Keywords: Striving to improve the teaching
profession, contribute to positive working
conditions, promoting professional growth.
 1C indicators (examples):
- Maintaining a positive attitude. “Maintains” does
not mean just part of the time
- Embracing change
- Embracing staff development opportunities
- Belonging to professional organizations

11. STANDARD 1D
 Keywords: Advocate for positive change in
policies and practices that affect student
learning, implementing these practices.
 Standard 1D (examples)
- Keeping up with current educational trends
and research
- Leading other teachers in these ideas
- Always looking for ways to improve your
teaching

12. STANDARD 1E
 Keywords: ethical principals of honesty,
integrity, fair treatment, and respect to others.
 Standard 1E (Examples)
- Understanding the Code of Ethics for North
Carolina educators
- Demonstrating this behavior

13. REFLECTION
 Take 5 minutes at your table to reflect on
what we have just discussed.
 Standard 1, “Where would you rate this
teacher activity?”

14. STANDARD 2A
 Keywords: positive, nurturing environment,
building relationships with students. Inviting,
respectful, supportive, classroom.
 Standard 2A (Examples):
- You “know” all your students and are able to
make a connection with your students
- Positive relationships with your students
- Inviting classroom, clean/organized
classroom

15. STANDARD 2B
 Keywords: demonstrate that you know the
cultures in your classroom and their history,
materials and activities contribute to different
cultures
 Standard 2B (Examples):
- Creating a classroom that promotes diversity
- Creating a classroom where others respect
those that disagree

16. STANDARD 2C
 Keywords: “Maintain” high expectations that
includes graduating from high school, value
contributions of students
 Standard 2C (Examples): Not holds, but
communicates high expectations, provides
support for those expectations.

17. STANDARD 2D
 Keywords: Adapting your teaching for students
with special needs, collaborating with support
specialist. Every student has needs. You are not
just focusing on EC students with this standard.
 Standard 2D (Examples): “Specialist” is anyone
that helps a teacher better understand the
needs of their students
- Using researched based practices to meet the
needs of your students (May need to seek
assistance in this area)

18. STANDARD 2E
 Keywords: Working collaboratively with the
families and significant adults in the lives of
students.
 Standard 2E (Examples): Here you are not
just responding to phone calls and other
ways of communication, but you are leading
the communication with the home and other
resource opportunities.

19. REFLECTION
 Take 5 minutes at your table to reflect on
what we have just discussed.
 Standard 2, “Where would you rate this
teacher activity?”

20. STANDARD 3A-3D
 Keywords: Investigate content standards,
rigorous curriculum, relevant instruction,
literacy skills, knowing your subject beyond
the required content, vertical alignment, and
21st Century skills.
 Standard 3A (Examples):
- Aligned instruction with the NCSCS
- Knowing what comes before and after your
curriculum

21. STANDARD 3A-3D
 Making the content relevant: Are students
working in groups? Problem solving?
 Properly prepared with a differentiated lesson
plan
 Understanding how to make connections
between the students and the content. (You
want to inspire them to investigate the
content outside class on their own)

22. REFLECTION
 Take 5 minutes at your table to reflect on
what we have just discussed.
 Standard 3, “Where would you rate this
teacher activity?”

23. STANDARD 4A
 Keywords: You know how students think and learn,
understanding the things that influence student
learning, and differentiate instruction accordingly.
 Standard 4A (Examples):
- Teacher is constantly learning about new educational
research. (How are you doing that now?)
- Teachers have personal relationships with students
so that they know how factors outside school affect
their learning
- Reflecting daily on your lessons. What resources will
I include to help meet the needs of students who did
not master the objective taught?

24. STANDARD 4B
 Keywords: Collaboration with colleagues to
create short and long-term plans. Understands
that plans must be consistently monitored and
adjusted for student learning.
 Standard 4B (Examples)
- Detailed lesson plans
- Creating unit plans that have: learning targets,
criteria for success
- Uses formal assessment strategies to adjust
instruction.

25. STANDARD 4C
 Keywords: Choosing the most appropriate
resources and methods to facilitate the
instruction.
 Standard 4C (Examples):
- Consistently mixing up the instruction
- You should be able to tell the observer why
are doing a certain activity and why you are
using certain resources. How did you select
those resources?

26. STANDARD 4D
 Keywords: Uses technology to maximize student
learning
 Standard 4D (Examples)
 How can technology be used to maximize student
learning to:
- Learn content?
- Think creatively?
- Solve problems?
- Use information?
- Communicate?
- Collaborate?

27. STANDARD 4E
 Keywords: Encouraging students to ask
questions, be creative thinkers, think
critically, process knowledge, and draw
conclusions.
 Standard 4E (Examples):
- Lesson plans need to reflect the Revised
Blooms Taxonomy. (Don’t get stuck doing
what you have always done. Evaluate your
lesson plans.

28. STANDARD 4F
 Keywords: The teaching of the importance of
cooperation and collaboration.
 Standard 4F (Examples):
- Organizing students for a “purpose” in the
classroom
- Helping students develop cooperation,
collaboration, and student leadership skills?
(This cannot happen if students don’t have
the opportunity)

29. STANDARD 4G
 Keywords: Effective communication
 Standard 4G (Examples):
- Proper notification to students and parents of
performance, expectations, events, deadlines,
etc.
- Make sure to proof read documents before
sending home
- Students should be able to talk and share
ideas/reflect. Planned in the lesson.
- Student presentations should be a must

30. STANDARD 4H
 Keywords: Using assessment to determine
growth and evaluation. Assessing 21st century
skills.
 Standard 4H (Examples):
- Using formative assessment daily
- Determining places in your unit plans where you
are going to give benchmark assessments
- Providing evidence in lesson plans that the data
has been collected and that you are making
adjustments to instruction. Data is driving
instruction.

31. REFLECTION
 Take 5 minutes at your table to reflect on
what we have just discussed.
 Standard 4, “Where would you rate this
teacher activity?”

32. STANDARD 5A-5C
 Keywords: Systematic thinking about learning,
professional development, understanding that
change is constant, considering new ways to be
a better teacher.
 Standard 5A-5C (Examples)
- Evidence that you are reflecting
- Actively participating in professional
development (Will always gain nuggets of
information)
- When faced with a learning situation, you
investigate what the research says.

33. REFLECTION
 Take 5 minutes at your table to reflect on
what we have just discussed.
 Standard 5, “Where would you rate this
teacher activity?”