Course 3: The First Domain-Multiple Career Paths

Course 3: The First Domain - Multiple Career Paths

From the section of the Master Teacher Guide Entitled: The First Domain - Multiple Career Paths

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Cluster Activity: The Many Experiences of a Teacher

On the back of each index card (see below) how the teacher in the scenario is feeling and what the rest of their career might look like.

Think about these questions:

• Would you keep working if you were this teacher? Why or why not?
• What would make this teacher's experience better?
• Have you ever felt like this teacher?
• How do you think this teacher is going to conduct her lessons based on what she is experiencing (how will it effect her students)

Teachers in a TAP School

Answer the questions on the handouts below with a shoulder partner

Cluster Activity: How Are We Evaluated?

Download the Handout below and discuss in small groups:

• All members of the TAP system are evaluated by someone. Even the administration is evaluated. The students GROWTH and the teacher's growth from observations are both used to decide compensation. Evaluation is not a "one and done" instance. It takes into account multiple measures and is completed throughout the school year. 
• Different career paths of teachers in "normal" schools: What is most important or interesting about the graphic? Notice that the only options for advancement and pay is to obtain an advanced degree (paid for out of pocket), leave education, become an instructional coach, or become an administrator. Notice that one out of five teachers will leave by year three of teaching and three out of five teachers will leave by year five of teaching. WHY? 

Deep Thinking: What are the responsibilities of the classroom teachers in this model? How are those different from an instructional coach or administrator? Let's make a chart!

Compare this chart to the chart in the handout labeled "TAP Schools" - What are the similarities and differences? Who are the different people evaluating you in a TAP school? How is this different from a "non-TAP" school?

Cluster Activity: What is our Chain of Command?

Put the signs on the board spaced out for people to stand beside them. Call out the scenarios and teachers stand beside the person they would turn to in that situation. Look at the Chain of Command in a TAP school handout an discuss the differences. Put up the "new" signs (Master Teacher and Mentor Teacher) and stand next to who you could go to in the same scenarios within a TAP school. 

Wrapping up This Domain:

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