Teacher Evaluation System - Polk County School District

Brief conversations between a teacher and an administrator that offer teachers the opportunity to review
student achievement and other school‐wide data and use this data to improve their instruction.
Deliberate Practice
The process by which teachers attain incremental gains in teacher expertise, under the supervision of their
administrators, and through the support of their peers, in order to produce gains in student achievement
from year to year. This evolves through practice and feedback.
Descriptor
Refers to any of the observable practices related to the EPCs and serves as an indicator as to the level to
which a teacher successfully implements each EPC in his or her classroom/instruction.
Developmental Feedback
Information sharing between an administrator and teacher to increase the teacher’s awareness,
responsibility, and performance.
District Assessment
A standardized district determined assessment for a given subject applied across the district in a given
subject area.
Domains
The broad categories for the Essential Performance Criteria based on the Florida Educator Accomplished
Practices. They include:
Instructional Design, Lesson Planning, and Assessment
Instructional Delivery and Facilitation
The Learning Environment
Professional Responsibilities and Ethical Conduct
Educator Preparation Institute (EPI) Program
An accelerated training program offered through Polk State College for newly hired teachers who have a
four year degree and did not major in education.
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Effective
A rating that indicates that there is adequate evidence of teacher performance at a high level of quality and
consistency of practice; demonstrated practice is excellent in relation to the rubric description for an EPC as
documented through observation and other appropriate data gathering methods.
Enrollment Determinant
Criteria used to determine the students who are to be included in the data set applied to determine student
achievement. The rule is students enrolled for both FTE Surveys 2 and 3 will be included in the data set (for
semester courses, students enrolled for FTE Survey 2 and Post‐test or FTE Survey 3 and Post‐test).
EPC Rating Rubrics
Behaviorally anchored statements that operationally define the rating labels of Highly Effective, Effective,
Needs Improvement/Developing, and Unsatisfactory as applied to describe performance related to the
Essential Performance Criteria.
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