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Creating a Culture of Sustained Professional Growth & Reflection Within the Evaluation Process Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center 63 for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching
Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center ‘63 for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching Sara_Deveaux@loomis.org Andrew Matlack, Andrew Matlack, Dean of Faculty, Loomis Chaffee Andrew_Matlack@loomis.org
Evaluationcan be part of a larger process focused on professional growth and development. Numerous sustained professional growth
faculty development. Conversations about teaching are an integral part of school culture.
Identify the pillars at the heart of your evaluation system. Would you change them if you could? Identify the cornerstones that currently allow for a culture of professional growth at your
add? Identify three ideas that you can take back to your school.
"The holistic evaluation (residential and coaching as well as teaching) is essential.” “I like that it focuses on classroom culture.” "Strenuous, yet valuable.”
"Year 5 should be different than year 3, and from years 1 and 2 for that matter.” “The process should be more self-directed and reflective. We know the one who does the work does the learning.” “Do we do anything at all to support our senior teachers?” “There’s no follow up between evaluation events, no continuum.” "Evaluation fatigue: death by feedback”
remove poorly performing teachers
beginning teachers
at their craft
○ Internal: Faculty-wide survey; 20 Interviews ○ External: ■ “Which factors have the greatest positive effect on students’ learning?” ■ “What makes teachers credible?” ■ “When does PD work best?”
○ Internal: Faculty-wide survey; 20 Interviews ○ External:
○ Internal: Faculty-wide survey, 20 Interviews ○ External
Simple
Sustained
Faculty Owned
New Evaluation System Year 1
[New Faculty Cohort]
“Evaluation A” (Year 2) Self-evaluation Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] “Evaluation B” (Year 4) Year 5 [PD]
New Evaluation System Year 1
[New Faculty Cohort]
“Evaluation A” (Year 2) Self-evaluation Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] “Evaluation B” (Year 4) Self-evaluation Video of a class Department Head Obs (1) SET DoF Obs (2) Year 5 [PD]
New Evaluation System Year 1
[New Faculty Cohort]
“Evaluation A” (Year 2) Self-evaluation Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] “Evaluation B” (Year 4) Self-evaluation Video of a class Department Head Obs (1) SET DoF Obs (2) Year 5 [PD]
New Evaluation System Year 1
[New Faculty Cohort]
“Evaluation A” (Year 2) Self-evaluation Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] “Evaluation B” (Year 4) Self-evaluation Video of a class Department Head Obs (1) SET DOF Obs (2) Year 5 [PD]
Intentional Change to pedagogy and a critical examination of the results.
redesign of the traditional feedback cycle?
impact individual student learning?
content in my class impact student engagement and mastery?
SET; begin to create guiding question Meet with cohort; design and propose project Implement; collect data; analyze; reflect Meet with ADoF for formal feedback
Winter Spring Spring Prior YR
Fall
Dean of Faculty office Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching
Sustained professional growth Conversations & collaboration Faculty voice and choice
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Head of School Sheila Culbert interacting with faculty during a PD event.
The Henry R. Kravis ‘63 Center for Excellence in Teaching provides the space and time to guide and nurture faculty in their pursuit of pedagogical excellence by creating a sense of ownership and intentionality surrounding professional growth; the ultimate goal is to instill in faculty the same passion for lifelong learning that we aim to instill in our students.
2Dedicated
3 Internal PD offerings
4 Creating the Conversations
Identify Identify the cornerstones that currently allow for a culture of professional growth at your school. What would you change or add?
Identify three three ideas that you can take back to your school.
implement now that would take minimal effort
effort.
Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching Sara_Deveaux@loomis.org Andrew Matlack, Andrew Matlack, Dean of Faculty, Loomis Chaffee Andrew_Matlack@loomis.org
Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching Sara_Deveaux@loomis.org Andrew Matlack, Andrew Matlack, Dean of Faculty, Loomis Chaffee Andrew_Matlack@loomis.org