This presentation from the Utah State Office of Education will help educators choose both summative and formative assessments for SLOs. The presentation includes a script in addition to slides.
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- Introduction to Student Learning Objectives | July 2013
- Scoring Student Learning Objectives | November 2014
- Student Learning Objectives: Considerations for Teachers of CTE Courses | October 2014
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This presentation from the Utah State Office of Education explores how to use baseline data to set growth targets for SLOs. Participants will learn how to determine the prerequisite knowledge and skills needed for students to be successful and learn about sources of baseline data. The presentation includes a script in addition to slides.
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This presentation from the Utah State Office of Education explores how to identify high-quality assessments for SLOs. The presentation includes a script in addition to slides.
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This presentation from the Utah State Office of Education explores how to determine the depth of knowledge needed for the learning goal. The presentation includes a script in addition to slides.
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This presentation from the Utah State Office of Education digs deeper into the SLO component of determining a learning goal. Participants will learn to write a final learning goal that thoughtfully synthesizes big ideas, content standards associated with the big ideas, and appropriate cognitive rigor. The presentation includes a script in addition to slides.
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This presentation from the Utah State Office of Education provides an overview of SLOs. Participants learn about the components of an SLO and the SLO process. The presentation includes a script in addition to slides.
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This presentation from the New York State Department of Education explains how New York will assess student learning growth for students in classrooms with a state assessment or in non-tested grades and subjects. This presentation will help districts leaders implement district-wide growth goal-setting processes; the measures fit into the larger teacher evaluation system.
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This presentation from the State of New Jersey Department of Education provides a foundational understanding of how to develop or choose high-quality assessments, investigate appropriate ways to set targets using readily available student data, and develop next steps that will allow educators to increase the quality of the SGOs in their district.
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This presentation from the Kentucky Department of Education describes the assessment literacy practices that not only are embedded within goal setting for student growth but also serve as a guide when thinking about the larger role assessments play in the teaching and learning cycle.
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This Arizona Department of Education presentation highlights national trends, shares concerns from the field, and discusses the use of SLOs as one measure of growth.
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This Arizona Department of Education presentation provides a deeper examination of the SLO cycle. The presentation examines the five steps within the cycle: determining students’ level of preparedness, choosing quality assessments, setting achievement and growth, monitoring and adjusting instruction, and establishing summative score.
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This Arizona Department of Education presentation provides an overview of SLOs. Participants will gain knowledge about using SLOs within a teacher’s evaluation and how to determine next steps in implementing the SLO process.
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This presentation from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction discusses how to create student growth goals. It describes the various sources of data used in student growth goals and the different types of goals.
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This presentation from the Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education outlines the SLO process. Participants will learn to identify the three steps of the SLO process, along with their more nuanced substeps; define possible sources of baseline data that describe both student performance and behavior; and identify the critical steps in selecting high-quality assessments.
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The Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education created a presentation that breaks down the different components of an SLO. Participants will learn how to identify the nine key criteria for SLOs and build familiarity with and locate the SLO Development Toolkit resources to aid in the various steps of the process.
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The Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education created this presentation to introduce SLOs. This presentation explains where SLOs come from, what SLOs are, and why to use SLOs. Participants will learn the definition of SLOs and identify the benefits of engaging in the SLO process systemwide.
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The Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education developed this presentation to explain the role of target setting as part of the SLO process. This presentation provides examples of different approaches to target setting, along with the pros and cons of each.
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This presentation from the Washington, D.C., Office of the State Superintendent of Education offers guidance on assessments to local education agency (LEA) decision makers. It provides four policy options for assessments and the pros and cons of each approach. Also discussed are the potential challenges for nontested grades and subjects. In addition, the presentation includes key questions or issues to consider when making decisions about assessments.
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This presentation from the South Dakota Department of Education discusses the types of SLOs for special education teachers and considerations for these teachers when writing SLOs. The presentation outlines the different types and their strengths and drawbacks.
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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education created a workshop to provide teachers with information and resources to identify their student learning and professional practice goals. This presentation guides teachers through their own goal-setting process and demonstrates the link between S.M.A.R.T. goals and the creation of an educator plan. This workshop also includes participant handouts.
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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education created a professional learning module for evaluators on how to develop S.M.A.R.T. goals so that goals are needs-driven, specific, and action-oriented. This module includes slides, handouts, and a facilitator’s guide.
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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education created this presentation to help educators understand the role of goal setting in the evaluation cycle. At the end of this presentation, participants will understand the developmental process for S.M.A.R.T. goals and develop two S.M.A.R.T. goals specific to their role.
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This presentation from the Louisiana Department of Education outlines the student learning target process and how to enter the information into the online dashboard.
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This professional learning session presentation from the Louisiana Department Education explains how each step of the goal-setting process supports the instructional priorities in a mathematics course. Participants will learn how goals drive classroom instruction and identify the aspects of a rigorous mathematics student learning target.
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This professional learning session presentation from the Louisiana Department of Education explains how the steps in the goal-setting process support instructional priorities in an English language arts course. Participants will learn how goals drive classroom instruction and identify the aspects of a rigorous English language arts student learning target.
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Find support for states in making policy decisions on student learning objectives (SLO) scoring.
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Discover additional SLO content and examples specific to teachers of career and technical education courses.
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Understanding what makes a high-quality SGO can be very challenging for both teachers and evaluators. This presentation by the State of New Jersey Department of Education identifies the components of a high-quality SGO in New Jersey. It also provides examples of SGOs before and after they are adjusted for quality.
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This presentation from the Kentucky Department of Education focuses on how teachers will implement strategies and monitor student progress toward goal attainment as a recursive process throughout the school year or course. Teachers will learn how to apply guiding questions that will lead to implementation of goal setting for student growth. The questions in this presentation guide reflection on what is needed throughout the goal-setting process.
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The Kentucky Department of Education developed this presentation to help teachers apply guiding questions leading to the development of a quality student growth goal. This presentation discusses how teachers can apply SMART criteria to develop a quality student growth goal and use guiding questions to reflect throughout the growth goal process to inform teacher professional learning.
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The Kentucky Department of Education developed this presentation to define and describe what teachers need to do to plan for, implement, and monitor student growth during the student growth process. The purpose of this presentation is to help teachers understand how to apply guiding questions that will lead them to develop quality student growth goals. The questions allow teachers to reflect on what is needed throughout the goal-setting process and determine appropriate sources of evidence for goal setting.
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This presentation developed by the Kentucky Department of Education provides an overview of the process of goal setting for student growth. It provides a basic foundational understanding of the student growth measure within the state’s evaluation system and highlights why student growth is included in the system.
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Discuss key questions regarding challenges and lessons learned from implementing student learning objectives.
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This presentation from the Maryland Department of Education is focused on providing tools and resources to assist districts with delivering professional development on SLOs to teachers and principals.
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SLOs serve as one locally selected measure option for districts in New York. This presentation provides a road map for districts as they implement the SLO process and will help them consider how SLOs will fit into the larger context of the full teacher evaluation system.
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In December 2012, the Maryland State Department of Education presented on the quality assurance process for SLOs. This presentation outlines quality control components, provides guidance, templates and tools, establishes the priority of standard, provides details on how to determine and score rigorous targets, and identifies high-quality , common assessments. Along with these components, additional time is devoted to monitoring and auditing the SLO process.
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The Maryland State Department of Education developed this presentation to illustrate how SLOs align with the goals for the state’s Race to the Top initiative. The presentation discusses the purpose of using SLOs, explains the development and implementation process around SLOs, and discusses how to plan for key considerations in piloting the implementation of SLOs.
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The Hawaii Department of Education developed a presentation on how to rate the quality of an SLO. The purpose of this presentation is to increase the understanding of what constitutes a quality SLO by using the Rating for the Quality of SLOs rubric. The presentation discusses each component of Hawaii’s SLOs and examines the differences between the three levels within the rubric.
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Discover how to improve instruction through evaluation by using student learning objectives and other measures.
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Find out how to use student growth in evaluating teachers of students with disabilities.
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Learn the basics of SLOs including the process and approaches to creating guidance for states in the early stages of implementation.
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Office of the State Superintendent of Instruction, Washington, D.C.
Based on an informal survey of LEAs in the District of Columbia focused on their major technical challenges in implementing teacher evaluations, Angela Minnici presented on growth measures for nontested grades and subjects, use of rubrics and inter-rater reliability, and summative scoring methods. During the presentation, participants shared their implementation process and received feedback from the presenters on their current challenges and implementation strategies.
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This presentation discusses potential student growth measures for teachers of nontested grades and subjects.
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In this webinar, the strengths and weakness of different evaluation system models are explored and then presented in a local context to participants in Maine.