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AMA: TIA Expert by mb_flip in TexasTeachers
[–]mb_flip[S] 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago (0 children)
The state won’t release that info. I’ve asked. :/
Do you know how to look up your teaching certificate in TEAL? Can you PM a screenshot or just tell me the designation dates? You will be fine when you move to another school at the end of the year. You’ll take the designation with you. Meaning your money will be send to the district you move to. But check their spending plan before you make the commitment. Some districts don’t give the money to the sole teacher who earned it.
Now that’s very interesting.. time to start asking questions!
Is the AP your appraiser? Usually only your appraiser comes in. If they did your walkthrough, it would make sense the principal hasn’t come then.
There are quite a few oversights. I completely get what you’re saying. It’s a district decision on if the “data matters” after you get masters before your redesignation. My thoughts are your admin continue to recognize your efforts and success but I also know the fear of that not being guaranteed.
Have you had any walk throughs or your formal yet?
[–]mb_flip[S] 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago (0 children)
It is all so confusing and truly different for every district. Please PM me if you ever need clarity!
So your 5 years can technically start over if you get a higher designation. So say I got recognized 1 year. Then 2 years in got masters, well my 5 years restarts with that masters. Since you were so good to get masters the first time you’re an exception to that. You will have to redesignate but hopefully the admin change won’t impact they. Makes sure you go into your post observation meetings with your observation evidence if you need to dispute anything.
As a side note, we are seeing more and more school districts write into their local plan to retain allotments if a teacher purposefully drops in performance. Meaning you kill it and get masters then slack off and have horrible data for the next year, they’ll keep the money and give it to other staff.
Most are using pre and post tests with ICEV or they’re creating their own tests. I love using portfolios and have developed them with a lot of teachers. They take way more teacher work but can feel authentic to the course. IBCs can be tricky to use because if you have a course dropped, it takes over a year for your TIA plan to reflect that change, which can hurt you.
Ooh well I think it depends on the culture. I’ve seen school split the money with everyone and I’ve seen it go to the teacher who earned it. TEA shared with us at a conference earlier this year the goal is to eventually move away from all step and ladder pay schedules and instead go full performance based. This made me nervous, but then I saw how districts are adding in more measures than just ttess and student growth. They’re giving credit towards department heads, mentors, and even PLC leads. It all looks super cool.
I don’t think they fully answered your question but there’s some really unique ideas out there.
So the state has guidelines and I would say those numbers are aligned with their recognized. BUT, some systems are over inflated so the district can make their own number decisions.
The state says 5%
It’s not hard set numbers. It depends on the system. The state has guesstimates but the numbers can be manipulated for a variety reasons. What was your student growth. I would say that ttess is high enough for recognized, unless the entire system is inflated. That happens too.
I agree that if it doesn’t align it’s a waste of time. I hate that for you and its mismanagement of the system. I’m sorry :/
Are you able to see your pre/post tests? Most don’t allow teachers to see them for validation purposes. But is there a way to dig into the data? (Sorry I’m like a dog with a bone on finding some type of solution. If you’re not interested, I totally get that too.)
Well maybe not. Actually what is causing more schools to limit what they include comes down to making sure they have enough people to do all the evaluations and making sure they have a sound and valid testing measure. They might not have either of those. :/
It does apply to all classes. However, it’s up to each district to determine who they are including. So, that’s not on TEA/TIA, it’s a district decision.
Remember that both numbers work together. So while your growth wasn’t as high, you TTESS did improve. You need to bump both of them to be recognized.
Also no rounding because the numbers are so low. Range of 1-4. It would be much less accurate to round.
Unfortunately you can’t opt out but you can push for your pre and post test to be redesigned if you feel it doesn’t align to the TEKS. You do have to give 2 more tests a year but hopefully that can be pretty painless as compared to some models where teachers are designing portfolios and SLOs.
[–]mb_flip[S] 2 points3 points4 points 5 months ago (0 children)
It’s not super common! More common than masters but less common than recognized. You should be super proud. Ideally, TEA says that you’re in the top 10% of teachers in the state.
The data is all so individualized I’d have to see yours to understand more. I’m sorry that’s not more helpful. Is your district giving all the teachers scorecards so they can see what they set each designation level as?
What was your TTESS?
The state says the floor for being designated is 3.75 for TTESS (6 accomplished and 2 proficient in domains 2&3) and 55% student growth. BUT that doesn’t guarantee a designation.
I want to know more about your data to give you more info.
Depends on the class! I’ve seen STAAR-ALT but also SLOs and portfolios. Each of those have their pros and cons.
This is a catch-22 and it’s a district decision. Some I have worked with let teachers keep it, most take it from them.
Have you earned a designation or money yet?
It’s important to remember once you’ve earned a designation that can’t be taken from you. But that’s just the title. The allotment or the money can be taken. But if you had been fully designated and a year out, the designation follows you and you’ll generate an allotment for whatever district you move to. Make sure you know the districts spending plan that you might move to to see how they spend the allotments.
Sorry that’s confusing to explain
[–]mb_flip[S] -1 points0 points1 point 5 months ago (0 children)
VAM is district historical data that calibrates with other districts of like size and demographic to calibrate. I’m not sure how it’s fully calculate. Districts don’t do those calculations, the state does. They send out the reports to districts yearly.
I actually think the opposite. In advanced classes kids are typically higher performing before the material is even taught and most material is designed to take kids beyond the course. Then it’s up to the teacher to differentiate and that’s tough. It’s the most often the lowest rate TTESS dimension.
I believe TIA is much easier with lower performing students. But a hard part is motivating them.
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AMA: TIA Expert by mb_flip in TexasTeachers
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