Oh joy, it’s that time of year again, Tpep pre-evaluation conferences.  This is the fourth year of the Washington State Teacher/Principal Evaluation Project and my year for Comprehensive, which means I get evaluated on all eight.  There are eight criterion, and you are either on Focused or Comprehensive Evaluation.  When you are on a Focused year, you choose two criterion to work on (or one + student growth goal).  But everyone has to have a Comprehensive evaluation at least once every four years. Every public school teacher in the state of Washington is observed and evaluated twice a year.  Then we get a score on a scale of 1-4:  1=Unsatisfactory  2=Basic 3=Proficient 4=Distinguished.

Although everyone is evaluated on the same eight criterion, there are three different frameworks districts can choose from as an evaluation instrument.  They are the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, the CEL5D+ Teacher Evaluation Rubric (commonly referred to as the UW model), and Danielson’s Framework for Teaching.  The Danielson framework is used most with 53% of the school districts, the CEL5D+ is used by 33% of school districts, and the Marzano model is used by 24% of school districts in Washington state.

Because I present workshops to teachers around the state on Tpep, I decided to compare the three frameworks and see where they are similar. Here is the document I created. criterion-cross-referenced

As I go through the Comprehensive Evaluation process, I am going to do a series of blog posts on each of the eight criterion.  Please join me and share your ideas here!  Until then check out my former posts on each of the Tpep criterion.