Table 2: Excerpt from Draft MSTAR Teacher Evaluation Performance Category: Planning Competency Plans lessons that demonstrate knowledge of content and pedagogy
Observed Level of Competency: Distinguished 4
Observed Level of Competency: Effective 3
Observed Level of Competency: Emerging 2
Observed Level of Competency: Unsatisfactory 1
Lesson plans include all of the necessary content and connect it across disciplines with connections that are consistently clear, meaningful, and relevant to students’ lives.
Lesson plans include nearly all of the necessary content and connect it across disciplines; however, connections are not consistently clear, meaningful or relevant to students’ lives.
Lesson plans include only part of the necessary content and/or do not connect it across disciplines.
Lesson plans do not include the necessary content and do not connect it across disciplines.
Score
The process calls for the principal to observe the teacher in the classroom at designated intervals and lengths of time. During each observation, the principal scores competencies at the mastery level demonstrated. Results are discussed with the teacher and action plans set to strengthen demonstrated weaknesses. At subsequent observations, the principal repeats this process, reviews action plan progress, and reinforces or redirects the teacher’s work. Converting the competency levels’ scores into points is the basis for PBC based on this qualitative measure. In this system, the highest score is 80: 20 teaching competencies x 4 possible points for the highest level of mastery, “distinguished.” The lowest score is 20: the 20 competencies x 1 for “unsatisfactory.”
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