GEORGIA CONTENT AREA RUBRIC No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Title II Part A High Objective Uniform

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GEORGIA CONTENT AREA RUBRIC No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 Title II Part AHigh
Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation
(HOUSSE)Fall 2004
Professional Standards Commission
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001

• Title II Part A
• Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality
  Teachers and Principals

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

• Signed into law by President Bush in January
  2002, NCLB contains the most sweeping changes to
  the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
  since enacted in 1965.
• NCLB changes the federal government's role in
  K-12 education by asking America's schools to
  describe their success in terms of what each
  student accomplishes.
• NCLB is guided by four basic reform principles
• (a) stronger accountability for results
• (b) increased flexibility and local control
• (c) expanded options for parents
• (d) teaching methods proven to work

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Title II-A Focus

• Overall Focus
• Recruit, train, and retain highly qualified
• teachers and principals
• High quality professional development

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Teacher Quality Goal

• NCLB places major emphasis on teacher quality as
  a factor for improving student achievement
  (Title I Section 1119)
• 2002-2003 All teachers hired after January 1,
  2002 and are teaching in a program supported by
  Title I funds must be highly qualified
• 2005-2006 All teachers teaching core academic
  subjects must be highly qualified by the end of
  the 2005-06 academic year

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Highly Qualified Teachers

• All teachers must be highly qualified.
• Applies to all public K-12 teachers who teach
  core subjects
• English, Reading or Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Broad Field Science (such as Physics, Biology, or
  Chemistry)
• Broad Field Social Studies (such as Civics and
  Government, Economics, History,or Geography)
• Foreign Languages
• Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Band, and Chorus)

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HiQ Compliance TimelineGeorgia Implementation
Guideline Section 13.0

• Core teachers hired and placed in school-wide or
  targeted assisted Title I programs after the
  first day of school 2002-2003 must be highly
  qualified upon employment.
• If hired before the first day of school
  2002-2003, core teachers must meet the highly
  qualified requirement by the end of 2005-2006
  school year, both in Title and Non-Title programs.

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HiQ Compliance TimelineGeorgia Implementation
Guideline Section 13.02

• Core teachers hired after the first day of school
  2002-2003 not working in Title I programs must be
  highly qualified by the end of school year
  2005-2006.

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Highly Qualified Teachers

• Certified by the PSC

plus
Major/ Concentration in Subject/ Content Area(s)
Veteran Teachers Content Test (Praxis II or Other
State Certification Test) Or HOUSSE to
Establish Content Expertise
New Teachers Content Test (Praxis II or Other
State Certification Test)
or
plus
Teachers must be assigned to teach in appropriate
subject/content area(s)
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Highly Qualified Veteran Teachers
Title II, Part A

• Bachelors Degree
• Professional Teaching Certificate

• Major/Concentration in Subject/Content Area(s)

• Passing Test Score in Subject/Content Area(s),

or
HOUSSE (100 points)
and
Teachers must be assigned to teach in appropriate
subject/content area(s)
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Highly Qualified New Teachers
Title II, Part A

• Bachelors Degree

• PSC Teaching Certificate
• Major/Concentration in Subject/Content Area(s)

• Passing Praxis II Test Score

and
Teachers must be assigned to teach in appropriate
subject/content area(s)
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HOUSSEHigh Objective Uniform State Standard of
Evaluation
Title II, Part A

• HOUSSE is designed to assess and document
  competency of veteran teachers only
• Requires 100 points in at least 3 categories

(Veteran teachers have completed a total of 3 or
more full years of successful teaching.)
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HOUSSE cont.
Title II, Part A

• The GA Content Rubric has been developed to
• evaluate veteran teachers

• Years of Teaching Experience
• College Course/SDUs/PLUs
• School/System Activities/Service
• Regional/State/National Activities/Service
• Scholarship
• Teacher Effectiveness (added March 15, 2004)

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Sample Situations For HOUSSE Application

• Teacher with life certificate in the subjects and
  teaching levels, but has no state certification
  test
• Teacher fully certified in another state, has no
  state certification test, and teaching in Georgia
  on a Non-renewable certificate

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Sample Situations for HOUSSE Application

• Teacher fully certified in one area, holding a
  non-renewable professional certificate in an
  additional area
• Teacher with a Permit teaching on a part-time or
  temporary basis

Note Contact your Title II-A Consultant about
other situations for HOUSSE application.
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Veteran Teachers Not Eligible for HOUSSE

• Teachers on waivers

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HOUSSE cont.
Title II, Part A

• The GA Content Rubric has been developed to
• evaluate veteran teachers

• Years of Teaching Experience
• College Course/SDUs/PLUs
• School/System Activities/Service
• Regional/State/National Activities/Service
• Scholarship
• Teacher Effectiveness (added March 15, 2004)

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Years Of Experience

• Must be content specific to the area and/ or
  subject
• Must be in a P-12 public or private school or
  college level
• Must be at the appropriate level (early
  childhood, middle grades, secondary)
• Multiply the number of years experience by 10
• Maximum of 50 points

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College Level Course Work

• Count the number of 3 semester hour (5 quarter
  hour) content courses (any level)
• Count education courses that are predominantly
  content (course description must be provided)
• Multiply the number of 3 semester hour content
  courses by 5

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College Level Course Work

• Points
• 5 points for each 3-semester hour content course
• 50 points for a major degree
• 10 points for any additional graduate degree

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College Level Course Work

• Maximum of 70 points
• 50 points for a major degree
• 10 points for a Masters degree
• 10 points for a Ed.S. degree
• 10 points for a Doctoral degree

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School or System LevelActivities/Service Related
to Content Area

• Count recent content specific activities (5
  points for each activity)
• Activities may date back no more than 7 years
• May count the same activity for multiple years
• Professional Learning Units (PLUs) or Staff
  Development Units (SDUs) should be calculated at
  1 point for each PLU/SDU
• Maximum of 30 points

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School/SystemActivities/Service Examples

• Service on school/system committee that
• Developed, selected, or evaluated content
  curriculum
• Developed, selected, or evaluated content
  standards
• Aligned local content standards with state
  standards
• Developed, validated, or evaluated content
  assessments

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School/System Activities/Service (CONT.)

• Completed and awarded PLU(s) for activities
  directly related to content area
• Presented/trained in content area at the district
  level
• Served as department chair or team leader
• Served as mentor or cooperating teacher for
  student teacher or intern

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State, Regional, or National Activities Related
to Content Area

• Count recent content-specific activities (5
  points each activity)
• Activities may date back no more than 7 years
• May count the same activity for multiple years
• Professional Learning Units (PLUs) or Staff
  Development Units (SDUs) should be calculated at
  1 point for each PLU/SDU
• Maximum of 30 points

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Regional, State, and National Activities/Service
Examples

• Participated in regional, state, or national
  conferences, seminars, or workshops related to
  the content area
• Member/officer of a regional, state, or national
  professional content organization
• Instructor of a content course at a
  college/university

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Regional, State, And National Activities/Service
Examples (CONT.)

• Served on state, regional, or national committee
  that developed, selected, evaluated or aligned
  content standards, content curriculum, or content
  assessments
• Completed and awarded PLU/SDU credit for state,
  regional, or national activities related to
  content area

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Scholarship in the Content Area

• Count scholarship and professional achievements
  related to the content area
• Award 5 points for most scholarly accomplishments
• Multiply the number of accomplishments by 5
• Maximum of 30 points

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Scholarship in the Content Area Examples

• Made content presentations at regional, state, or
  national professional content organization
  conference
• Published content article in regional, state, or
  national journal
• Contributed to published textbook
• Completed and submitted of all assessments for
  National Board Certification

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Outstanding Scholarship Accomplishments in the
Content Area

• Accomplishments in the content area that may be
  awarded 30 points due to the significance of the
  achievement
• School district or state Teacher of the Year
• State or national teaching award
• Authorship of a published textbook
• Acquisition of National Board Certification

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Teacher Effectiveness
(added March 15, 2004)

• May be awarded 30 points
• Record of positive teacher effect on student
• achievement (standardized assessment data)
• Minimum of three years data at the same
• teaching level

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Completed Rubric Packet

• Completed rubric including total score for each
  teaching field/subject
• Documentation to verify
• years of experience in the content area
• college level course work in the content area
• school/system level activities/service in content
  area
• state/regional/national activities/service in
  content area
• scholarship in content area
• Signed Assurance Form

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Maintenance of HOUSSE Records

• School system maintains all HOUSSE assessment
  records
• Teacher maintains a copy of his/her HOUSSE
  assessment records
• Verifies to the GA PSC that the veteran teacher
  meets the highly qualified teacher requirement

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Validity Period of HOUSSE

• Once the rubric has been applied and a teacher is
  evaluated as highly qualified, the teacher
  remains highly qualified as long as the
  situation remains constant.

Worksheet Examples
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Additional Information

• Visit our Web site www.gapsc.com/nclb/home.html

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PSC Title II-A Team

• Dr. Fran Watkins
• Director of Educator Preparation
• fran.watkins_at_gapsc.com

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Professional Standards Commission
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 1
Mr. Daniels is a high school English teacher with
35 years experience in the state of Georgia.
His certificate is a Life Certificate, T-4, BA
from UGA, secondary English. He has never taken
a teacher content competency test. He has
chaired the English Curriculum Revision Committee
for Aires High School for the past four years and
participated as a member of the system wide
curriculum alignment committee. He has been a
member of the Georgia Council of the Teachers of
English for the past 22 years. He has served as a
local arrangements liaison for the council for
the three conferences held in the state.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 1
Area 1
50
50
25
Area 2
Area 3
30
Area 4
0
0
Area 5
Area 6
155
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 2
Ms. Smith is a middle grades language arts
teacher who has been teaching for six years. She
has a bachelors degree in English and a masters
in middle grades. Her certificate is a T-5 in
middle grades with a concentration in language
arts. She teaches reading one period each day
and has for two years. She is a member of the
Georgia Council of the Teachers of English. She
has presented at one state conference on reading
in the content area for middle grades students.
She has served on the system wide language arts
articulation committee for the past three years,
and she has served on her schools curriculum
revision committee for three years. She has
served two years as the cluster lead teacher for
her cluster. The college courses she has had in
reading as a part of her language arts curriculum
are the following The Teaching of Reading (3
hours) and Reading Seminar (3 hours). For the
past three years, her students have scored
consistently above average on the ITBS in
English, and her students' mean CRCT scores are
at the 85th percentile.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 2
Area 1
20
10
30
Area 2
Area 3
5
Area 4
0
30
Area 5
Area 6
95
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 3
Ms. Middlebrooks is a high school biology teacher
with nine years experience. Her bachelors
degree is in biology. Her certification is a T-4
in biology. Her Praxis test was taken in
Biology. She has been awarded a Nonrenewable
Professional Certificate in Broad Field Science.
She has taught physical science one period each
day for five years. The college courses she has
had in physical science are the following
Physical Science 101, 102 (3 hours each), Physics
112, 113 (3 hours each), Physics 210, 211 (3
hours each). She was the Teacher of the Year for
her high school last year and is the system
Teacher of the Year this year. She is a member
of the Georgia Science Teachers Association and
has been for six years. She has served as a
program committee chair for the annual conference
for two years.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 3
Area 1
50
30
0
Area 2
Area 3
30
Area 4
30
0
Area 5
Area 6
140
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 4
Ms. Hinson is a 25- year veteran social studies
teacher from the state of Alabama. She has both
a bachelors and a masters in social studies
education. In Alabama, she held a T-5 clear
renewable certificate. She was a member of the
Alabama Council for Teaching Social Studies for
20 years. She was secretary of the council in
1992. She has participated on test review
committees for the state of Alabama on three
different occasions. She has no Praxis score in
social studies. She has been hired to teach
American history at Cedar Shoals High School for
the 2003-04 academic school year. She has had
successful annual evaluations in at least three
of her last five years.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 4
Area 1
50
60
0
Area 2
Area 3
30
Area 4
0
0
Area 5
Area 6
140
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 5
Ms. Childers is a five year veteran who teaches
Spanish I and II at Lou High School. Her
certificate is a T-5 in Spanish she has a
bachelor's degree in Spanish with a minor in
French and a master's in romance languages. She
sponsors a student foreign language club and
assists with the senior play. She has been given
a Nonrenewable Professional Certificate in French
because beginning this year, she must also teach
one period a day of French. She has served on the
Spanish Curriculum Committee for 1 year and has
been a representative to the Department of
Education Content Standards Development Committee
for the past year. She has also served on the
SACS committee for Spanish this past year.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 5
Area 1
0
50
5
Area 2
Area 3
0
Area 4
0
0
Area 5
Area 6
55
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 6
Mr. Andrews, a high school social studies
teacher, is a twenty- year veteran who is
transferring to Georgia from Nebraska (Nebraska
has no content test for teachers.). He has been
hired to teach American History and World History
at the High School Level in Georgia. He has been
employed full-time the past five years as a Valic
representative, but he would like to return to
the classroom. He has a bachelors degree and a
masters degree in social studies education. In
1991, he was the school systems Teacher of the
Year. He was a member of the Nebraska Social
Studies Teachers Association from 1985-1995. He
was also an active member of the social studies
curriculum development committee for his school
system from 1993 1996.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 6
Area 1
50
60
0
Area 2
Area 3
0
Area 4
30
0
Area 5
Area 6
140
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 7
Mr. Matthews is a fifth grade English teacher who
teaches two periods a day of mathematics for
Title I students. He is certified in middle
grades in language arts and social studies. He
has taught the Title I mathematics class for the
last eight years. His college courses in
mathematics include Math 101, 102, 201, 202 (all
3 hour semester courses. He is TSS endorsed and
has been a mentor to three different new teachers
in the last five years. He has also presented a
session at the state Title I conference on
effective teaching strategies in mathematics.
For the last four years, his Title I students
have shown an average of 1.5 years of growth on
the ITBS in mathematics. No student in his
classes scored less than one year of growth, and
a number advanced two to three years. He
consistently has 25 of his students moving to
on-level math classes in the sixth grade.
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HOUSSE Worksheet
Example 7
Area 1
50
20
15
Area 2
Area 3
5
Area 4
0
30
Area 5
Area 6
120
Total Score
Minimum of 100 points in 3 categories is
required.
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