Teachers & Administrators

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• Recognition and Excellence

  Recognition programs demonstrate respect for educators. Meaningful, thoughtful educator appreciation programs is about valuing efforts and having respect for who educators are and what educators do while giving students, districts and school communities public recognition and a sense of pride. The Talent Office is proud to be a part of the following state and national recognition efforts.

• Remedial Reading and Remedial Language Arts, Grades 1-12 (#102) Cross-Endorsement

• Resources for Increasing Educator Diversity Plan Creation and Implementation

  CSDE and REL websites and documents providing tools for increasing educator diversity.

• Sample SLOs by Content Area

  The Student Learning Goal/Objective in the teacher evaluation and support system is a carefully planned, broad academic goal that a teacher sets at the beginning of the year for all students or subgroups of students and is informed by available data. It is measured by Indicators of Academic Growth and Development (IAGDs), which include specific targets for student learning and expected outcomes over an entire course or year of instruction.

• School Paraprofessional Advisory Council

  School paraprofessional advisory council reports, agendas and minutes

• School Safety and Security

  Resources to help schools develop plans for ensuring students' safety and security

• Secondary School Science Cross-Endorsements

  Secondary science cross-endorsements assessment requirements by endorsement code.

• Secondary Subjects Cross-Endorsements

  Secondary subjects cross-endorsements assessment requirements by endorsement code.

• SEED Model

  Connecticut’s System for Educator Evaluation and Development (SEED) is a model evaluation and support system that is aligned to the Connecticut Guidelines for Educator Evaluation (Core Requirements), which were adopted by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) in 2012 and revised in 2014, and inform implementation of a model teacher and administrator evaluation and support system which was piloted in 2012-13 school year.

• Shortage Areas

  CSDE identified shortage areas and incentives to teach in these content areas.

• Special Services Endorsements

  The following endorsements are classified as special services: Speech and Language Pathologist (#061), School Counselor (#068, School Psychologist (#070), School Social Worker (#071), School Nurse-Teacher (#072), School Dental Hygienist-Teacher (#073).

• Special Subject Cross-Endorsements

• Surveys for Administrator Evaluation

  To ensure that districts use effective survey instruments in the administrator evaluation process, and to allow educators to share results across district boundaries, CSDE has adopted recommended survey instruments as part of the SEED State Model for administrator evaluation.

• Talent Office

  Home page of the State Department of Education's Talent Office

• Teacher Education And Mentoring (TEAM) Program

  The TEAM Program is a two-year induction program for new teachers that includes mentorship and professional development support that new educators need to be successful. Learning to teach is a developmental process that begins during preservice and continues throughout a teacher’s career.