Welcome to…

BEST PRACTICESin

eVAL TRAINING<Insert the Date>

<Insert Your Name>, Facilitator

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Learning Target:To have the skills, knowledge

and confidence to be effective trainers on the use of the eVAL tool to support:

effective self-assessmentthe articulation of goal-setting, and

the integration of multiple measures of evidence

WHAT DO

YOU KNOW ABOUT eVAL?

Let’s find out…

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT eVAL

•eVAL supports the greater efforts of professional growth.•eVAL is complex, reflecting the complexity of TPEP.•eVAL promotes collegiality, communication, collaboration.•eVAL includes many features; users control how it is used.•eVAL won’t fix all of the challenges of evaluation.•eVAL is continually being improved, based on feedback.•eVAL archives data each year; available in “read-only.”

•Data sitting on the eVAL server is secure.

WHAT ABOUT THE SANDBOX?

• Is an exploratory playground

•Mirrors your district’s real eVAL site

• Is loaded w/your district’s instructional framework

•Sits on a smaller server

•Data gets erased every night

TODAY’s AGENDA• A look at the materials• Self-assessment• Break• Goal-setting• Lunch• Gathering evidence• Break•Web sites, webinars and other wonderful things

TODAY’s STORYLINEThe TeacherHas identified the use of formative assessment in the classroom as an area of growth for instructional practice.CEL A6 ● Danielson 3 (3d) ● Marzano 1-R (6.3)

The PrincipalHas identified increased parent communication as a goal in the strategic plan for his/her school. The teacher is asked to respond to the principal’s prompt about this goal for professional practice.CEL PCC3 ● Danielson 4 (4c) ● Marzano 4 (7.1)

Are you an explorer?

If so, you like to…

•Chart your own course

•Move at your own pace

•Explore things on your own

•Check out your own “if-then” scenarios

or…

Are you amap reader?

If so, you like to…

•Know where you are going and how to get there

•Have the assistance of a “tour guide” to answer questions and interpret things you are seeing

Our group norms

• Attend to the opening slideshows

• Whisper quietly

• Help each other

• Use the user guide

• Use the parking lot

• Stick with me

• Ask questions as we go along

• Help each other

• Use the user guide

• Use the parking lot

• Set cell phones to silent

• Take breaks as needed

• Be back on time

• Attend at the signal

Explorers

Map readersEveryone

What else?

A web site created for your workshop participants to get their

WORKSHOP MATERIALSwww.esd112.org/tpep/eval

Sample artifacts for our two scenarios and that are ready to download and use for today’s workshop

Sample text for our two scenarios today and that we will use to enter into the sandbox text fields

Three ways to access the eVAL user guide

So let’s get started and go there!