huskergal
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Post by huskergal on Aug 16, 2024 17:40:12 GMT
Do you have to do a yearly SMART goal for professional growth? I am so over it. I have no more goals. I teach 6 week classes, 6th-8th grade. There is nothing I can do in a 6 week class period that is measurable by data. I make up crap every year. The administrator who is observing me is only in her 3rd year so she takes this seriously. I loved when I had the head principal because he just dotted i's and crossed t's. It is a colossal waste of time.
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Post by Merge on Aug 16, 2024 20:30:11 GMT
I do not miss being evaluated by a tool created for someone else in a very different job.
I always made up the most ridiculous crap and peppered it with edu-babble. Do whatever you have to do to get it signed off.
Just another way they strip teachers of professional dignity.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 16, 2024 20:49:21 GMT
Wonder how they like this response.
I hope we all survive each semester, the kids and particularly me, the teacher!
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Post by smasonnc on Aug 16, 2024 21:34:21 GMT
I'm not a teacher, but I grew up in a family of teachers and worked as an aide until I got my first job. I don't know how you put up with this nonsense. Administrators who have been out of the classroom for years, if they were there at all, decide that you need more work so they lay on more record keeping, as if you weren't already doing a full time job. It's mental. Ugh!
<<steps off soapbox>>
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Post by kate on Aug 16, 2024 21:58:56 GMT
I have so much to say, but I'm'a try to keep it nice... LOL I usually choose something I'm already doing (so I know it works) or something that's easy to document. Last year, I had a goal that actually meant something to me. I worked on it, and I had some very interesting/informative results. Too bad I never got a meeting with admin to talk about it - they were too busy.  |
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Post by worrywart on Aug 17, 2024 12:54:45 GMT
I would ask her for a couple examples that would fit your content!
Then, since it is supposed to be measurable - could you do something like give a pre test on day one and a post test at the end. Then your goal could be that 70% of your students increase their pre/post test grade by some point value or percentage.
Not sure what you teach but this could work for a variety of classes. It's meaningless so just find something that will be easiest for you!!!
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Post by christine58 on Aug 17, 2024 13:43:43 GMT
Here in New York State, we used to have to do what was called APPR. Annual professional performance review and it all had to retired to student growth/test. Needless to say that was 10 years ago and was filled with numerous flaws. Union, flat tooth and nail, I had no input on it pretty much, and it all went to hell in a handbasket was just finally tossed in the circular file a.k.a. the garbage can.
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Post by annie on Aug 17, 2024 16:07:12 GMT
I do not miss being evaluated by a tool created for someone else in a very different job. I always made up the most ridiculous crap and peppered it with edu-babble. Do whatever you have to do to get it signed off. Just another way they strip teachers of professional dignity. This made me LOL. I am queen of peppering it with edu-babble! And now with AI I can make it even more impressive!  OP, our elementary school principal makes us all do the same SMART goal. So say '85% of my students will show growth over X percentile on their spring MAP test'. And then we're judged hard if we don't make the goal but our peers do, etc... Really great for staff morale! Because we know each classroom has individual students with their own circumstances that of course affects their test results. But nope - it's always the teacher's fault. Smh. My advice: just make shit up. And I agree - what a colossal waste of time. |
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Post by Zee on Aug 17, 2024 18:01:10 GMT
If they're going to make you do useless exercises like this that you have no personal stock in, they get made-up answers.
I had to do a lot of this when I went back for my BSN. I didn't use AI for it bc that wasn't quite yet a "thing", but it seems like a great way to formulate a useless SMART goal.
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misse336
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Post by misse336 on Aug 17, 2024 23:28:39 GMT
We don't have to do the exact same thing, but the years that we aren't on admin monitoring (every 3 years where we get observed) we have to do action research with measurable goals. Everyone also has to do a student performance measure every year, in addition to the admin monitoring or action research, that has to have a measurable goal and your score is factored into your yearly state performance rating.
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