Teachers & Administrators

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• Connecticut Evidence Guides

  The CSDE encourages districts to use the CT Evidence Guides as a tool for professional development and growth as well as guiding observations. These guides can offer opportunities for valuable professional learning as educators work with one another to generate their own examples of evidence aligned to their respective rubric.

• The Student Learning Goals/Objectives Process

  The process begins before the start of the new school year with the superintendent identifying the instructional priorities for the district, which informs the instructional priorities of each school and thus informs the administrator’s student learning priorities. Teacher then examine their own student data and set goals to address the learning priorities identified by their administrators.

• Beginning Teachers

  Materials and resources for supporting beginning teachers participating in the TEAM program.

• Cross Endorsements and Adding an Additional Endorsement

  Learn more about adding an endorsement to your certification. Step by step instructions for the application process for a cross endorsement, administrative, adult education and special services.

• Evaluation Training

  The newly revised CSDE Foundational Skills for Evaluators of Teachers training is designed to concentrate on the evaluator’s capacity to observe and analyze teacher performance and practice inherent in the CT Common Core of Teaching (CCT) and to provide supportive, high quality feedback to teachers.

• District Facilitator Annual Timeline

  The timeline presented here lists all the major TEAM milestones during the year. For each milestone we provide the details, suggestions and best practices that have proven to assist in the timely submission of reflection papers, building reviewer and mentoring capacity and processing of TEAM allocations.

• Customer Service Guidelines

  To provide prompt and effective customer service, the Bureau of Educator Standards and Certification has established the following guidelines.

• 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.

• Educator Evaluation Plan Submission Process

  The State Board of Education acted on April 5, 2017, to adopt proposed recommendations from the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) on the appropriate uses/non-uses of the state mastery test (e.g. Smarter Balanced Assessment, SAT, CMT, and CAPT) within the educator evaluation and support system.

• Professional Learning - Learning Designs

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student integrates research on effective adult learning and uses flexible learning designs to achieve intended outcomes.

• Secondary Subjects Cross-Endorsements

  Secondary subjects cross-endorsements assessment requirements by endorsement code.

• Professional Learning - Data

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student requires the use of both quantitative and qualitative student, educator and system data to plan, implement, monitor, and assess professional learning.

• General Certification Application Information and Forms

  In order to ensure timely processing of your application, please carefully read the instructions below to ensure you submit the required documentation and payment.

• TEAM - Module 1

  Resources and samples for Module 1 - Classroom Environment

• Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR)

  CEEDAR tools and documents for EPPs and districts.