Content Area Evaluations: HOUSSE
ADEPT Content Area Evaluations
South Carolina's HOUSSE At-A-Glance
South Carolina's HOUSSE At-A-Glance
Description
South Carolina has developed the Content Area Evaluations to serve as one of the options that eligible teachers may elect to use to demonstrate that they have met the content competency requirements for being “highly qualified,” as defined by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. These content area evaluations meet the NCLB specifications for a “high objective State standard of evaluation” and are aligned with South Carolina’s system for Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Professional Teaching (ADEPT).Materials
The following five materials are needed to conduct the ADEPT Content Area Evaluations:Guidelines (updated October 2005). A six-page PDF document that includes the following explanations and requirements:
- Purpose
- Intended Use
- Performance Dimensions and Competency Standards
- Evaluation Teams
- Orientation
- Data Collection
- Documentation
- Evaluation Judgments and Conferences
- Recommended Timeline for Evaluation
- Early Childhood Education pdf (1 page)
- Elementary Education pdf (1 page)
- Special Education pdf (1 page)
- includes sample key elements for each performance dimension and
- provides an electronic template for evaluators to record their evidence
Reflection on Student Learning.
A one-page Microsoft Word document that
- includes questions for teachers and
- provides an electronic template that teachers may use to complete their
written responses.
- provides an electronic template for evaluators to summarize their judgments.
District Requirements
In implementing the ADEPT Content Area Evaluations, districts will need to- comply with all ADEPT Content Area Evaluation Guidelines;
- provide training for all evaluators. This training
must include, but need not be limited to (1) training in the district’s
approved ADEPT formal evaluation model, and (2) written and oral explanations
of all content area standards (i.e., performance dimensions) and procedural
requirements, as specified in the ADEPT Content Area Evaluation Guidelines;
and
- submit the evaluation results to the Division of Teacher Quality via the ADEPT Data System (ADS). Information on teachers who have met all five performance dimension competency standards in one or more content areas will automatically be transferred from the ADS to the certification database to document that these teachers have successfully completed the requirements for being “highly qualified” in the subject area(s).