TEA-DATE Project: Module 2 Initial Thoughts

Module 2: Designing a Performance Award System

Initial Thoughts

Now that you have watched the Challenge Scenario, write out your initial responses to the challenge questions below. To save your initial thoughts and move on to the Resources and Perspectives page, hit "next" button below.

Challenge Question #1: What outcomes would a performance award system help your district achieve?

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Challenge Question #2: Considering the multiple stakeholders impacted by a performance award system, who will you include on your district planning committee as you develop and implement your plan?

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Challenge Question #3: How might you design an award system to recognize and reward teachers and other school personel for positively impacting student academic growth and improvement?

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Challenge Question #4: How can we fairly measure the contributions made by each educator to the growth and improvement of students with different backgrounds and skills?

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Challenge Question #5: To what degree do your district and schools currently have the data capacity and information technology infrastructure to acurately make school, team, and individual level judements of teacher effectiveness?

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Challenge Question #6: Once implemented, how might you know if your performance-based award system is effective?

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