The key points of the “Student Learning Objectives: Teacher Overview” and the “Student Learning Objectives: Basic Overview” surround the New York State Education Department’s release of the Student Learning Objective Road Map and the SLO Guidance Document. A student learning objective is an academic goal that is exact and measurable, set for a specific teacher’s students and determined before the start of a course. SLOs especially need to be established for teachers of subjects where there are no state-provided measures of student growth or improvement. SLOs must include the following Basic Elements: learning content, interval of instructional time, evidence, baseline, targets expected, HEDI criteria, and lastly, rationale. SLOs must measure two points in time for each individual student. Teachers’ scores are based upon the degree to which their goals are attained. The 2012-13 school year is the first time SLOs will be implemented in the classroom and will apply to a majority of teachers. Currently, the SLO documents are to be used to evaluate teachers based on their students’ learning advancements in the classroom. SLOs give teachers the opportunity to create a data-driven culture through formal and informal assessments to lead students to higher academic performance as well as prepare them for college and a future career. Teacher and principal effectiveness will be rated using four categories: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, and Ineffective. These will be influential in employment decisions such as promotion, retention, tenure determination and termination. Evidence suggests that SLOs lead to higher academic performance by students through rigorous and ambitious learning goals. This, combined with the purposeful use of data through interim and formative assessments, will highlight areas in need of improvement and will promote the overall success of the classroom or grade.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it stresses how important it is for educators to understand that schools must go beyond information accumulation and really provide their students with useful and applicable knowledge. To ensure that this happens, and more importantly, happens effectively, the implementation of SLOs can guarantee a broader spectrum for learning. These thorough objectives go beyond having students memorize data and facts. The objectives are meant to motivate students to learn in a data-driven culture in order to obtain higher academic achievement and in turn, set them up for college and professional readiness. The purposeful use of data through formal (interim) and informal (formative) assessments combined with a goal-setting process is an integral part in increasing the instructional benefit of teachers by promoting systematic and strategic approaches. SLOs will enhance instructional decisions for the better and thus promote greater inquiry-based learning in the classroom.
The articles discuss the newest school reform to be implemented by New York State, the Student Learning Objective (SLO). The articles provide the reader with the basic information of this new reform and guidelines to help educators adjust to the SLOs. It discusses the new Evaluation System which will be used to evaluate teachers as well as principals every year and how the SLOs will be incorporated into this system. The teacher evaluations will be partially dependent on how effective the teacher was at attaining the SLO goal he set for his students at the beginning of the course. The articles explain what teachers will be affected the most by the SLOs, which are those who teach classes that do not have state-provided measures of student growth. These articles show what is expected to be included in the SLO, providing examples of a proper SLO to the reader. Lastly, these articles discuss as to why this reform has been made and what New York State hopes the implementation of these objectives will achieve, such as an improved performance by teachers and students.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because SLOs encourage the end of rote memorization in classes. Through the implementation of SLOs, teachers can no longer just teach their students to memorize facts. This just simply will not work if the teacher would like to reach her SLO goal. With the goal of the SLOs, coinciding with that of the Common Core Standards, being to have teachers help prepare students for their college or career goals, teachers will have to challenge their students more. A technique that would be beneficial to use to attain this goal would be to teach through inquiry. One of the major gaps between high school and college is that in high school students are mostly just presented with information that they blindly accept to be true whereas at the collegiate level students are expected to question material critically. By having educators use inquiry in their classrooms, students will be more prepared for the inquiry based learning that occurs at college and the transition from high school to college will be a bit easier.
The key points of this article are… The two articles discuss the outline of Student Learning Objectives or SLOs. Student Learning Objectives are goals for teachers to set for their students that represent the most important learning goals students should work to achieve by the end of the year. They are especially important to classes that have no state provided measures of student performance. They are also used as a measure of teacher effectiveness based on how well students meet the SLOs. The implementation of SLOs is based on the idea that students will achieve greater academic success when they are expected to meet rigorous academic goals. It also hopes to help align teacher instruction with the goals and priorities of the school and the district.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it stresses the idea that the best learning comes from motivating the students to learn rather than by requiring them to memorize information and facts. The SLOs are based on studies that show setting rigorous goals combined with the use of data through formal and informal assessments results in higher academic achievement. The best way for teachers to have their students reach the expectations of the SLOs is to encourage them to learn through inquiry. By encouraging inquiry based learning teachers can compel their students to achieve a more meaningful education and reach the rigorous expectations of the SLOs.
The key points of this article provide a basic overview of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) that were implemented into 2012-2013 academic year for teachers/subjects where there are no state-provided measurements of growth. These goals are used to identify an academic goal set for teacher’s students which identifies the student population, learning content, gives interval to achieve that goal, and it also includes some evidence based upon this goal, as well as, the base level of learning for students, target (outcome) and the rationale. It has been proven that setting goals in addition to formal and informal assessments, leads to a successful education and increase in students’ performance.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because SLOs give a set of standards/ goals that a teacher is hold accountable for. That way, he or she may keep them in mind throughout the semester, not only teaching their students to what the regents exams require them to know, but also to build up their knowledge from what has been learned in the past. The objective of these goals is for the teachers not to simply “teach” but to ensure that the students get 100% of what they deserve and are ready and prepared for their future educational career.
The key points of these articles deal with the implementation of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), what they mean, and what needs to be done. Firstly, both articles explain what the SLOs are—“academic goal[s] for teacher’s students that [are] set at the start of a course”—and what the implementation of this reform means for teachers. Forty percent of teacher evaluations of annual professional performance reviews (APPRs) are now going to be based on how well students perform on the SLOs. From these scores teachers will be placed into one of four categories that will help determine the status of their jobs. Aside from explaining what the SLOs mean for the future of teachers, the articles also explain which teachers have to develop an SLO and the eight elements SLOs must include. The responsibilities of the district and principals and a general timeline for developing an SLO is also outlined. Finally, example SLOs are included for teachers to fully understand what they entail and how the eight elements come together. From these points teachers are shown both the importance and the purpose of SLOs—to improve the quality and performance of both teachers and students.
These articles help me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because…
These articles help me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the SLOs show a push for greater inquiry in schools. The SLOs are to be “rigorous and ambitious” because this leads to greater academic achievement and thus greater preparation for college and careers. Teaching through inquiry is the best way to meet these demands because students have to learn by inquiring or thinking for themselves rather than being provided with formulas and procedures. When students are given the all of the facts and are just responsible for remembering them, they are not being provided with rigor. They are not expected to know any more than how to memorize. However, when students are responsible for constructing their own learning through inquiry, they become hands on in the process and are better able to meet objectives.
The key points of this article are: -The SLO’s are a result of a district-established goal setting process. -Due to the new AARP system put into place teachers will now be evaluated each year. A part of the new evaluation will be based on their student’s growth throughout the year as well as their students performance on state exams. -A SLO is the state test that will be used to measure student’s growth or performance if there is no previously established measure of growth such as a regents. - The SLO is required for all teachers who do not have a state test already in place that can measure growth. If a district chooses they may use a SLO as an assessment of student achievement as well. -All SLO’s must be state approved as well as have a starting point and an ending point. A pre-assessment and a final assessment are used as these two points. - A SLO is also a goal for a student for a year of school, which can be measured and is aligned with state, core, national and district standards. -The SLO’s are meant to focus education, make kids college ready, and eventually lead to higher success rates in education.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because as a result of these new teacher evaluations teachers will be placed under a microscope. Teacher’s performance and ability to help students understand concepts will be reflected in whether or not students show adequate growth throughout the year. Teaching through inquiry is going to be a skill, which will be expected as well as a skill, which will hopefully allow students to better understand what they are learning in the classroom. When students discover something or figure something out they are more likely to recall it later on during an exam, as opposed to just having information being given to them. These new laws will be evaluating teachers based on test scores and if students are performing well on tests because they can fully understand the information then an inquiry style classroom would be beneficial for everyone involved.
The key points of this article are…….. discussing the new Student Learning Objectives, or SLOs. These documents explain how New York State will assess the student learning growth of students in classrooms where there is no State assessment that can be used for a State‐provided growth or value‐ added measure (sometimes called “non‐tested subjects”). Rigorous and ambitious student learning objectives are more than just a component of the new evaluation system – they are an opportunity for you to create a data‐driven culture than can help your students achieve college and career readiness goals. The the basic elements of a SLO included are composition, subject, length of course, assessments used, student starting levels, student outcomes, determination of ranges: 0-20, and rationale (why choosing content, evidence, and targets). The results of the evaluations will be a significant factor in employment decisions, including promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation, as well as teacher and principal professional development (including coaching, induction support, and differentiated professional development).
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because….. there are constantly new ideas and modifications to the teaching system. Every few years their seems to be new curriculum and ways of assessing students. This is very easy to see, especially after reading Tinkering Towards Utopia last week. These objectives tie in very well with the common core curriculum. It's main goals are both to prepare students for college and future careers. In order for students to reach these objectives, teachers must put a lot of work into getting students to be successful. This will be very important because the success of your students will go into your evaluation.Teaching through inquiry will be necessary to get students to do well on these exams. They will have a better chance to retain and provide the correct information for their whole education, and into their careers, which is the main goal of the program. We will see how they work out, but I'm sure in a few years there will be something new for teachers and students to worry about.
The key points of this article are that New York State will be using a new system in order to evaluate their teachers, which are not giving state assessment tests at the end of the year called Student learning objectives or SLO. This includes everyone who does not teach grade 4-8 ELA and Math so this is going to effect almost all of the teachers in the state. Teacher and principal effectiveness will be based on a 4-category system. Student achievement will count for 40 percent of the teacher’s evaluation. SLO requirements for school systems are that they must represent the most important learning for the year and be specific and measurable. Each SLO must also address the needs of every student who is taking the course. Lastly the SLO should be designed based on school population, beliefs of the school district and academic improvement plans. Another main goal and priority of the SLO is to better prepare students to go to college.
This article better helps me understand teaching and learning through inquiry because very similar to Tinerking Towards Utopia this is another way that the state thinks that we can help improve how are students are learning in school. These new regulations will really put pressure on teachers to make sure that all of their students are prepared because the student performance is a large part of the teacher evaluation and can mean the difference between tenure or not. If teachers base lessons on inquiry and making material relevant to students it can go a long way in helping teachers and students succeed in the new system. Matt Musumeci
There is a new school reform coming around called the SLO. These new standards that are being implemented in schools through the 2012-13 school year are geared not only for preparing students for college and career readiness but also have a new evaluation component attached to it addressing teachers quality of work in preparing students. Under this new reform teachers and principals will be rated on effectiveness using four rating categories for evaluation. This evaluation on teachers plays a big role in employment decisions, including promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation, as well as teacher and principal professional development. Basically saying results of your students based on this rating will now affect a teacher’s evaluation by nearly 40 percent. One of the major goals to be obtained out of this is not only geared for a higher academic performance rate by students, but an overall improvement teaching performance. This is majorly geared for teachers of subjects where there are no state-provided measures of student growth, essentially up to grade 8.
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The article shows through out it that essentially this new reform is geared towards the removal of regurgitation of countless facts from students through a teacher from memorization of that student just to spit back at the teacher on a assessment. It is now geared towards inquiry based learning which is without a doubt the best way for any student to learn and the studies have shown that no matter what the student type this is without a doubt the best way for any student to learn, I am 100 percent a go for this reform for if it wasn’t for the teachers I had throughout high school who believed in inquiry based learning also I probably would have never made it through and would have never applied myself to the fullest extent possible if it wasn’t for them, and I cannot wait to apply these techniques in my classroom!
One of the key points of these articles is to familiarize future and current education leaders about the new teacher evaluation system. Annual professional performance reviews will be given to judge whether a teacher is doing a good job at educating his/her students. These articles also talk about student learning objectives. These are goals for students to reach by the end of a semester or school year. If these students can successfully reach these goals, then with this new system, not only do the students benefit, but the teachers do too. This is mainly because their employment relies on the APPR's.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because educators will always have to stay on top of their game when it comes to teaching. Similar to having new technology in schools, all teachers, young and old need to adjust. These APPR's are just another example of how educators will have to vary their teaching skills in order to get 80% of the students in their classes to know at least 75% of the curriculum. In other professions, sometimes employees also have performance reviews. These show employees where they need to improve and what they are doing right. Though I've heard that a lot of teachers are against these performance reviews, I think it's a step in the right direction to better educate the children of tomorrow.
One key point to this article is forty percent of teacher evaluations will be comprised of student achievement. Teachers and principals will be evaluated. The factors that result of these evaluations are promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation. Another key point is SLOs are to represent the most important learning for the year to come. It must be based on the common core, state, or national standards. The purpose of SLOs is for educators to focus and align instruction with district and school priorities goals and academic improvement plans. These plans should be rigorous. It is to help students achieve and have teacher teaching the proper material.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because there is now a force pushing teachers do work harder to teach the students. An incentive is added so if their students achieve well, they can get some type of compensation. I feel this will help some teachers become better teachers and those "bad" teachers will lose their job. The SLOs will help students to learn and make the kids of the future smarter.
SLO’s were created to help the students and to better evaluate teachers in any school throughout the state, especially in grades that do not have state wide assessments. The new evaluations of teachers are extremely important and I agree that it should include all of the factors listed. There are many teachers out there that have tenure but have simply ‘given up’ on their students. This is not fair to the students because they are given information to memorize specifically for testing purposes and if the teacher does not show they want to be there, what makes them think the students will want to be there as well. Another key point was the fact that the SLO’s should be used year to year to build upon previous knowledge of the students. As a student, I sometimes felt that there was information I had learned in classes and after I passed the final exam, it was no longer needed. Though this is not the case for all classes, I feel that if more classes branched from other classes, students would come into classrooms already knowing something that can help them do well in class. In the end this helps students become better prepared for the future.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it stressed the fact that teachers should be setting rigorous and ambitious learning goals in their classrooms. Having this in classrooms will make classes more interesting rather than all memorization. Making the students think for themselves can be a difficult task but when it does happen, students feel empowered and realize that they can learn through inquiry.
The key points to this article have to do with the fact that the New York Education Department is implementing what are called Student Learning Objectives or SLO’s. These SLO’s are a specific set of goals that teachers must set for their students at the beginning of the year. Teachers must focus on the most important criteria while setting goals in which student success can be easily measured and relate to national and district standards. In each SLO, there are factors that must be included such as student population, learning content, interval of instruction time, evidence used to measure their goals, the baseline for the students’ academic level, the target or expected results, HEDI criteria to judge the effectiveness and the rational for choosing how to go about these goals. New York State has set new laws for teacher evaluations that will affect employment, promotions and tenure. These SLOs and how well they are met at the end of the year are being used to determine the effectiveness of the teacher in his or her students’ academic growth in teacher evaluations. New York State feels that by implementing tough evaluations and forcing teachers to set specific and demanding goals, the teachers can stay focused and allow students to succeed academically
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because by using SLOs, teachers are required to evaluate the progress of their students’ learning. They must ensure that students are not only memorizing concepts, but truly understand these concepts. In order to do this, teachers must set goals that will allow students to learn how to think critically, ask questions and expand their ways of thinking and problem solving. SLOs will help teachers to motivate their students to use this new ability to think critically and use inquiry to grow intellectually. By learning how to use inquiry students will learn the information they need to progress academically, but more importantly they will be comfortable thinking and problem solving on their own to truly understand the information and grasp the concepts completely.
The key points of this article are that the district has implemented Student Learning Objectives as "comparable growth measures" for students. These learning goals are meant to help students get ready for college and future careers. The NYSED is hoping that the SLO's will lead to a higher academic performance by the students. They are assessments for the teachers of non-state required assessment subjects. The teachers will also be evaluated on how their students growth and how well they meet the goals.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the article is informative for teachers about this new assessment and what is expected of them. It discuses teachers setting goals and reaching higher standards for their students to increase the growth of their students. The SLO's are not only trying to push the students to achieve higher standards, but it is pushing teachers to become better teachers to help their students reach those goals.
The key point of this article is to explain how New York State will assess the growth of students in classrooms where there is no State assessment that can be used for a State-provided growth (non-tested subjects). The 2012-2013 school year will be the first year where Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) will be implemented in most schools and districts have the option of using SLOs as the locally selected measure of student achievement. The basis for this new law is tied into the new teacher and principal evaluation system. This law specifies student achievement will compromise 40 percent of teacher and principal evaluations. These annual performance reviews (APPR’s) will rate teachers and principals as either Highly Effective, Effective, Developing or Ineffective. This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it shows us that schools and teachers should focus on the learning process of students rather than focus on students passing a state test. Hopefully these new changes will transform our schools and teachers so that they better serve our students.
The key points of this article are…….. These articles discussed the newest school reforms, the Student Learning Objectives. The articles gave guidelines to the SLOs and what they are. The main purpose of the SLOs is to track the students growth for testing and give a basic outline to what is expected of teachers. It targets teachers in grades 4-8. These tests are rigorous and will help students be more prepared for college and their careers. Teachers will also be rated and placed in 1 of 4 rating categories: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, and ineffective. The SLOs are specific and Measurable. It is the new goal setting process of education and we hope to see a lot of student growth.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because….. The articles taught me a lot about what these SLOs are and their purpose. It showed teachers what type of new assessments they will be giving their students and how they will be graded themselves. Teachers are being forced to be better teachers so they can get rated higher. We also hope that students will grow and be ready for their future.
The key points of the article outline the SLOs, the latest reform in NY State that will attempt to measure student growth and a teacher’s effectiveness. SLOs stand for Student Learning Objectives, which are goals set by the teacher of a course and the superintendent of a district for courses which are not already tested by the state. Teachers are scored on the HEDI scale based on the degree to which they attained their goals, and they are given a rating of highly effective, effective, developing, or inefficient. This article helps me to understand teaching through inquiry because the SLOs may help educators answer the question, “How can I be a better teacher?” The tests can help teachers to identify the areas in which students have grown the most, and areas in which more growth is needed. These tests can help educators adjust their teaching strategies and lessons to address areas in which students are struggling the most, as identified by the SLOs.
The key points of the article are… The Student Learning Objectives (SLO’s) are the newest set of guidelines that will be incorporated into New York State schools during the current school year (2012-2013). SLO’s are an academic goal for teacher’s students that are set at the start of the course. These goals being set should be “rigorous and ambitious learning objectives.” Both of the articles discuss ways on how to incorporate the SLO’s into teacher’s classrooms. They sort of act as a guideline and tell the teacher how, what and why the SLO’s are important. They inform the teacher what they should include, the most important learning for the year, they should be specific and measurable and very important for teachers of subjects where no state provided measures of student growth are recorded. (2nd grade classroom)
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SLO’s are rigorous goals forcing your students to have to put time in and actually learn the material being taught to them. I believe SLO’s will also benefit the students in a way because now teachers will be evaluated on how well they targeted their SLO’s over the course of the year! Did they accomplish all their goals they set at the beginning of the year? It is sad to say but now that the SLO’s are enforced in the NYS schools this year it will force some teachers to actually teach all 180 school days. As a result, the SLO’s should help with achieving an overall better education.
The key points of the “Student Learning Objectives: Teacher Overview” and the “Student Learning Objectives: Basic Overview” surround the New York State Education Department’s release of the Student Learning Objective Road Map and the SLO Guidance Document. A student learning objective is an academic goal that is exact and measurable, set for a specific teacher’s students and determined before the start of a course. SLOs especially need to be established for teachers of subjects where there are no state-provided measures of student growth or improvement. SLOs must include the following Basic Elements: learning content, interval of instructional time, evidence, baseline, targets expected, HEDI criteria, and lastly, rationale. SLOs must measure two points in time for each individual student. Teachers’ scores are based upon the degree to which their goals are attained. The 2012-13 school year is the first time SLOs will be implemented in the classroom and will apply to a majority of teachers. Currently, the SLO documents are to be used to evaluate teachers based on their students’ learning advancements in the classroom. SLOs give teachers the opportunity to create a data-driven culture through formal and informal assessments to lead students to higher academic performance as well as prepare them for college and a future career. Teacher and principal effectiveness will be rated using four categories: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, and Ineffective. These will be influential in employment decisions such as promotion, retention, tenure determination and termination. Evidence suggests that SLOs lead to higher academic performance by students through rigorous and ambitious learning goals. This, combined with the purposeful use of data through interim and formative assessments, will highlight areas in need of improvement and will promote the overall success of the classroom or grade.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it stresses how important it is for educators to understand that schools must go beyond information accumulation and really provide their students with useful and applicable knowledge. To ensure that this happens, and more importantly, happens effectively, the implementation of SLOs can guarantee a broader spectrum for learning. These thorough objectives go beyond having students memorize data and facts. The objectives are meant to motivate students to learn in a data-driven culture in order to obtain higher academic achievement and in turn, set them up for college and professional readiness. The purposeful use of data through formal (interim) and informal (formative) assessments combined with a goal-setting process is an integral part in increasing the instructional benefit of teachers by promoting systematic and strategic approaches. SLOs will enhance instructional decisions for the better and thus promote greater inquiry-based learning in the classroom.
The articles discuss the newest school reform to be implemented by New York State, the Student Learning Objective (SLO). The articles provide the reader with the basic information of this new reform and guidelines to help educators adjust to the SLOs. It discusses the new Evaluation System which will be used to evaluate teachers as well as principals every year and how the SLOs will be incorporated into this system. The teacher evaluations will be partially dependent on how effective the teacher was at attaining the SLO goal he set for his students at the beginning of the course. The articles explain what teachers will be affected the most by the SLOs, which are those who teach classes that do not have state-provided measures of student growth. These articles show what is expected to be included in the SLO, providing examples of a proper SLO to the reader. Lastly, these articles discuss as to why this reform has been made and what New York State hopes the implementation of these objectives will achieve, such as an improved performance by teachers and students.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because SLOs encourage the end of rote memorization in classes. Through the implementation of SLOs, teachers can no longer just teach their students to memorize facts. This just simply will not work if the teacher would like to reach her SLO goal. With the goal of the SLOs, coinciding with that of the Common Core Standards, being to have teachers help prepare students for their college or career goals, teachers will have to challenge their students more. A technique that would be beneficial to use to attain this goal would be to teach through inquiry. One of the major gaps between high school and college is that in high school students are mostly just presented with information that they blindly accept to be true whereas at the collegiate level students are expected to question material critically. By having educators use inquiry in their classrooms, students will be more prepared for the inquiry based learning that occurs at college and the transition from high school to college will be a bit easier.
The key points of this article are…
ReplyDeleteThe two articles discuss the outline of Student Learning Objectives or SLOs. Student Learning Objectives are goals for teachers to set for their students that represent the most important learning goals students should work to achieve by the end of the year. They are especially important to classes that have no state provided measures of student performance. They are also used as a measure of teacher effectiveness based on how well students meet the SLOs. The implementation of SLOs is based on the idea that students will achieve greater academic success when they are expected to meet rigorous academic goals. It also hopes to help align teacher instruction with the goals and priorities of the school and the district.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it stresses the idea that the best learning comes from motivating the students to learn rather than by requiring them to memorize information and facts. The SLOs are based on studies that show setting rigorous goals combined with the use of data through formal and informal assessments results in higher academic achievement. The best way for teachers to have their students reach the expectations of the SLOs is to encourage them to learn through inquiry. By encouraging inquiry based learning teachers can compel their students to achieve a more meaningful education and reach the rigorous expectations of the SLOs.
The key points of this article provide a basic overview of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) that were implemented into 2012-2013 academic year for teachers/subjects where there are no state-provided measurements of growth. These goals are used to identify an academic goal set for teacher’s students which identifies the student population, learning content, gives interval to achieve that goal, and it also includes some evidence based upon this goal, as well as, the base level of learning for students, target (outcome) and the rationale. It has been proven that setting goals in addition to formal and informal assessments, leads to a successful education and increase in students’ performance.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because SLOs give a set of standards/ goals that a teacher is hold accountable for. That way, he or she may keep them in mind throughout the semester, not only teaching their students to what the regents exams require them to know, but also to build up their knowledge from what has been learned in the past. The objective of these goals is for the teachers not to simply “teach” but to ensure that the students get 100% of what they deserve and are ready and prepared for their future educational career.
The key points of these articles are…
ReplyDeleteThe key points of these articles deal with the implementation of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), what they mean, and what needs to be done. Firstly, both articles explain what the SLOs are—“academic goal[s] for teacher’s students that [are] set at the start of a course”—and what the implementation of this reform means for teachers. Forty percent of teacher evaluations of annual professional performance reviews (APPRs) are now going to be based on how well students perform on the SLOs. From these scores teachers will be placed into one of four categories that will help determine the status of their jobs. Aside from explaining what the SLOs mean for the future of teachers, the articles also explain which teachers have to develop an SLO and the eight elements SLOs must include. The responsibilities of the district and principals and a general timeline for developing an SLO is also outlined. Finally, example SLOs are included for teachers to fully understand what they entail and how the eight elements come together. From these points teachers are shown both the importance and the purpose of SLOs—to improve the quality and performance of both teachers and students.
These articles help me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because…
These articles help me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the SLOs show a push for greater inquiry in schools. The SLOs are to be “rigorous and ambitious” because this leads to greater academic achievement and thus greater preparation for college and careers. Teaching through inquiry is the best way to meet these demands because students have to learn by inquiring or thinking for themselves rather than being provided with formulas and procedures. When students are given the all of the facts and are just responsible for remembering them, they are not being provided with rigor. They are not expected to know any more than how to memorize. However, when students are responsible for constructing their own learning through inquiry, they become hands on in the process and are better able to meet objectives.
The key points of this article are:
ReplyDelete-The SLO’s are a result of a district-established goal setting process.
-Due to the new AARP system put into place teachers will now be evaluated each year. A part of the new evaluation will be based on their student’s growth throughout the year as well as their students performance on state exams.
-A SLO is the state test that will be used to measure student’s growth or performance if there is no previously established measure of growth such as a regents.
- The SLO is required for all teachers who do not have a state test already in place that can measure growth. If a district chooses they may use a SLO as an assessment of student achievement as well.
-All SLO’s must be state approved as well as have a starting point and an ending point. A pre-assessment and a final assessment are used as these two points.
- A SLO is also a goal for a student for a year of school, which can be measured and is aligned with state, core, national and district standards.
-The SLO’s are meant to focus education, make kids college ready, and eventually lead to higher success rates in education.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because as a result of these new teacher evaluations teachers will be placed under a microscope. Teacher’s performance and ability to help students understand concepts will be reflected in whether or not students show adequate growth throughout the year. Teaching through inquiry is going to be a skill, which will be expected as well as a skill, which will hopefully allow students to better understand what they are learning in the classroom. When students discover something or figure something out they are more likely to recall it later on during an exam, as opposed to just having information being given to them. These new laws will be evaluating teachers based on test scores and if students are performing well on tests because they can fully understand the information then an inquiry style classroom would be beneficial for everyone involved.
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ReplyDeletediscussing the new Student Learning Objectives, or SLOs. These documents explain how New York State will assess the student learning growth of students in classrooms where there is no State assessment that can be used for a State‐provided growth or value‐ added measure (sometimes called “non‐tested subjects”). Rigorous and ambitious student learning objectives are more than just a component of the new evaluation system – they are an opportunity for you to create a data‐driven culture than can help your students achieve college and career readiness goals. The the basic elements of a SLO included are composition, subject, length of course, assessments used, student starting levels, student outcomes, determination of ranges: 0-20, and rationale (why choosing content, evidence, and targets). The results of the evaluations will be a significant factor in employment decisions, including promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation, as well as teacher and principal professional development (including coaching, induction support, and differentiated professional development).
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there are constantly new ideas and modifications to the teaching system. Every few years their seems to be new curriculum and ways of assessing students. This is very easy to see, especially after reading Tinkering Towards Utopia last week. These objectives tie in very well with the common core curriculum. It's main goals are both to prepare students for college and future careers. In order for students to reach these objectives, teachers must put a lot of work into getting students to be successful. This will be very important because the success of your students will go into your evaluation.Teaching through inquiry will be necessary to get students to do well on these exams. They will have a better chance to retain and provide the correct information for their whole education, and into their careers, which is the main goal of the program. We will see how they work out, but I'm sure in a few years there will be something new for teachers and students to worry about.
The key points of this article are that New York State will be using a new system in order to evaluate their teachers, which are not giving state assessment tests at the end of the year called Student learning objectives or SLO. This includes everyone who does not teach grade 4-8 ELA and Math so this is going to effect almost all of the teachers in the state. Teacher and principal effectiveness will be based on a 4-category system. Student achievement will count for 40 percent of the teacher’s evaluation. SLO requirements for school systems are that they must represent the most important learning for the year and be specific and measurable. Each SLO must also address the needs of every student who is taking the course. Lastly the SLO should be designed based on school population, beliefs of the school district and academic improvement plans. Another main goal and priority of the SLO is to better prepare students to go to college.
ReplyDeleteThis article better helps me understand teaching and learning through inquiry because very similar to Tinerking Towards Utopia this is another way that the state thinks that we can help improve how are students are learning in school. These new regulations will really put pressure on teachers to make sure that all of their students are prepared because the student performance is a large part of the teacher evaluation and can mean the difference between tenure or not. If teachers base lessons on inquiry and making material relevant to students it can go a long way in helping teachers and students succeed in the new system.
Matt Musumeci
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ReplyDeleteThere is a new school reform coming around called the SLO. These new standards that are being implemented in schools through the 2012-13 school year are geared not only for preparing students for college and career readiness but also have a new evaluation component attached to it addressing teachers quality of work in preparing students. Under this new reform teachers and principals will be rated on effectiveness using four rating categories for evaluation. This evaluation on teachers plays a big role in employment decisions, including promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation, as well as teacher and principal professional development. Basically saying results of your students based on this rating will now affect a teacher’s evaluation by nearly 40 percent. One of the major goals to be obtained out of this is not only geared for a higher academic performance rate by students, but an overall improvement teaching performance. This is majorly geared for teachers of subjects where there are no state-provided measures of student growth, essentially up to grade 8.
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The article shows through out it that essentially this new reform is geared towards the removal of regurgitation of countless facts from students through a teacher from memorization of that student just to spit back at the teacher on a assessment. It is now geared towards inquiry based learning which is without a doubt the best way for any student to learn and the studies have shown that no matter what the student type this is without a doubt the best way for any student to learn, I am 100 percent a go for this reform for if it wasn’t for the teachers I had throughout high school who believed in inquiry based learning also I probably would have never made it through and would have never applied myself to the fullest extent possible if it wasn’t for them, and I cannot wait to apply these techniques in my classroom!
-John Napolitano
One of the key points of these articles is to familiarize future and current education leaders about the new teacher evaluation system. Annual professional performance reviews will be given to judge whether a teacher is doing a good job at educating his/her students. These articles also talk about student learning objectives. These are goals for students to reach by the end of a semester or school year. If these students can successfully reach these goals, then with this new system, not only do the students benefit, but the teachers do too. This is mainly because their employment relies on the APPR's.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because educators will always have to stay on top of their game when it comes to teaching. Similar to having new technology in schools, all teachers, young and old need to adjust. These APPR's are just another example of how educators will have to vary their teaching skills in order to get 80% of the students in their classes to know at least 75% of the curriculum. In other professions, sometimes employees also have performance reviews. These show employees where they need to improve and what they are doing right. Though I've heard that a lot of teachers are against these performance reviews, I think it's a step in the right direction to better educate the children of tomorrow.
One key point to this article is forty percent of teacher evaluations will be comprised of student achievement. Teachers and principals will be evaluated. The factors that result of these evaluations are promotion, retention, tenure determination, termination, and supplemental compensation. Another key point is SLOs are to represent the most important learning for the year to come. It must be based on the common core, state, or national standards. The purpose of SLOs is for educators to focus and align instruction with district and school priorities goals and academic improvement plans. These plans should be rigorous. It is to help students achieve and have teacher teaching the proper material.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because there is now a force pushing teachers do work harder to teach the students. An incentive is added so if their students achieve well, they can get some type of compensation. I feel this will help some teachers become better teachers and those "bad" teachers will lose their job. The SLOs will help students to learn and make the kids of the future smarter.
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ReplyDeleteSLO’s were created to help the students and to better evaluate teachers in any school throughout the state, especially in grades that do not have state wide assessments. The new evaluations of teachers are extremely important and I agree that it should include all of the factors listed. There are many teachers out there that have tenure but have simply ‘given up’ on their students. This is not fair to the students because they are given information to memorize specifically for testing purposes and if the teacher does not show they want to be there, what makes them think the students will want to be there as well. Another key point was the fact that the SLO’s should be used year to year to build upon previous knowledge of the students. As a student, I sometimes felt that there was information I had learned in classes and after I passed the final exam, it was no longer needed. Though this is not the case for all classes, I feel that if more classes branched from other classes, students would come into classrooms already knowing something that can help them do well in class. In the end this helps students become better prepared for the future.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it stressed the fact that teachers should be setting rigorous and ambitious learning goals in their classrooms. Having this in classrooms will make classes more interesting rather than all memorization. Making the students think for themselves can be a difficult task but when it does happen, students feel empowered and realize that they can learn through inquiry.
The key points to this article have to do with the fact that the New York Education Department is implementing what are called Student Learning Objectives or SLO’s. These SLO’s are a specific set of goals that teachers must set for their students at the beginning of the year. Teachers must focus on the most important criteria while setting goals in which student success can be easily measured and relate to national and district standards. In each SLO, there are factors that must be included such as student population, learning content, interval of instruction time, evidence used to measure their goals, the baseline for the students’ academic level, the target or expected results, HEDI criteria to judge the effectiveness and the rational for choosing how to go about these goals. New York State has set new laws for teacher evaluations that will affect employment, promotions and tenure. These SLOs and how well they are met at the end of the year are being used to determine the effectiveness of the teacher in his or her students’ academic growth in teacher evaluations. New York State feels that by implementing tough evaluations and forcing teachers to set specific and demanding goals, the teachers can stay focused and allow students to succeed academically
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because by using SLOs, teachers are required to evaluate the progress of their students’ learning. They must ensure that students are not only memorizing concepts, but truly understand these concepts. In order to do this, teachers must set goals that will allow students to learn how to think critically, ask questions and expand their ways of thinking and problem solving. SLOs will help teachers to motivate their students to use this new ability to think critically and use inquiry to grow intellectually. By learning how to use inquiry students will learn the information they need to progress academically, but more importantly they will be comfortable thinking and problem solving on their own to truly understand the information and grasp the concepts completely.
The key points of this article are that the district has implemented Student Learning Objectives as "comparable growth measures" for students. These learning goals are meant to help students get ready for college and future careers. The NYSED is hoping that the SLO's will lead to a higher academic performance by the students. They are assessments for the teachers of non-state required assessment subjects. The teachers will also be evaluated on how their students growth and how well they meet the goals.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because the article is informative for teachers about this new assessment and what is expected of them. It discuses teachers setting goals and reaching higher standards for their students to increase the growth of their students. The SLO's are not only trying to push the students to achieve higher standards, but it is pushing teachers to become better teachers to help their students reach those goals.
- Michele Treadwell
The key point of this article is to explain how New York State will assess the growth of students in classrooms where there is no State assessment that can be used for a State-provided growth (non-tested subjects). The 2012-2013 school year will be the first year where Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) will be implemented in most schools and districts have the option of using SLOs as the locally selected measure of student achievement. The basis for this new law is tied into the new teacher and principal evaluation system. This law specifies student achievement will compromise 40 percent of teacher and principal evaluations. These annual performance reviews (APPR’s) will rate teachers and principals as either Highly Effective, Effective, Developing or Ineffective.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it shows us that schools and teachers should focus on the learning process of students rather than focus on students passing a state test. Hopefully these new changes will transform our schools and teachers so that they better serve our students.
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ReplyDeleteThese articles discussed the newest school reforms, the Student Learning Objectives. The articles gave guidelines to the SLOs and what they are. The main purpose of the SLOs is to track the students growth for testing and give a basic outline to what is expected of teachers. It targets teachers in grades 4-8. These tests are rigorous and will help students be more prepared for college and their careers. Teachers will also be rated and placed in 1 of 4 rating categories: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, and ineffective. The SLOs are specific and Measurable. It is the new goal setting process of education and we hope to see a lot of student growth.
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The articles taught me a lot about what these SLOs are and their purpose. It showed teachers what type of new assessments they will be giving their students and how they will be graded themselves. Teachers are being forced to be better teachers so they can get rated higher. We also hope that students will grow and be ready for their future.
The key points of the article outline the SLOs, the latest reform in NY State that will attempt to measure student growth and a teacher’s effectiveness. SLOs stand for Student Learning Objectives, which are goals set by the teacher of a course and the superintendent of a district for courses which are not already tested by the state. Teachers are scored on the HEDI scale based on the degree to which they attained their goals, and they are given a rating of highly effective, effective, developing, or inefficient.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to understand teaching through inquiry because the SLOs may help educators answer the question, “How can I be a better teacher?” The tests can help teachers to identify the areas in which students have grown the most, and areas in which more growth is needed. These tests can help educators adjust their teaching strategies and lessons to address areas in which students are struggling the most, as identified by the SLOs.
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ReplyDeleteThe Student Learning Objectives (SLO’s) are the newest set of guidelines that will be incorporated into New York State schools during the current school year (2012-2013). SLO’s are an academic goal for teacher’s students that are set at the start of the course. These goals being set should be “rigorous and ambitious learning objectives.” Both of the articles discuss ways on how to incorporate the SLO’s into teacher’s classrooms. They sort of act as a guideline and tell the teacher how, what and why the SLO’s are important. They inform the teacher what they should include, the most important learning for the year, they should be specific and measurable and very important for teachers of subjects where no state provided measures of student growth are recorded. (2nd grade classroom)
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SLO’s are rigorous goals forcing your students to have to put time in and actually learn the material being taught to them. I believe SLO’s will also benefit the students in a way because now teachers will be evaluated on how well they targeted their SLO’s over the course of the year! Did they accomplish all their goals they set at the beginning of the year? It is sad to say but now that the SLO’s are enforced in the NYS schools this year it will force some teachers to actually teach all 180 school days. As a result, the SLO’s should help with achieving an overall better education.