Crosswalk
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Teacher 2.0
This update of the OLAC OTES crosswalk aligns to the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System 2.0, and helps align on-going educator PD align to the 6 domains of practice by which teachers will be evaluated in the Teacher Performance Evaluation Rubric (p. 20-23, 29).
The OLAC Crosswalk functions to show how the tools that principals and teachers already use to guide their professional learning to the standards line up directly with the measures that drive the Teacher Performance Evaluation Rubric. This January 2023 revised version of the OTES Crosswalk features the same standards and elements, and where applicable the same resources. It features updates, highlights, and additions as needed to make the OLAC OTES Crosswalk tightly coupled to state improvement priorities as well as OTES 2.0 evaluation measures. Any educator, school, or district can make use of this crosswalk to target professional learning as needed.
Teacher Standard 1
Teachers understand student learning and development and respect the diversity of the students they teach.
O.T.1.2: Teachers understand what students know and are able to do and use this knowledge to meet the needs of all students.
Focusing Questions for Principal's Conversation with a Teacher
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Do you need to learn more about creating instruction responsive to students' characteristics, backgrounds, and needs? If so, resources include:
For developmentally appropriate education:
- OLAC Video: Increasing Expectations for Students With Disabilities
- OLAC Module: Educational Equity: Understanding Why It’s So Important
- OLAC Module: Instruction
- OLAC Module: Learning Supports
- The Aspen Institute: How Learning Happens: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (2018)
- MiddleWeb: Making Students’ Assets Our #1 Teaching Priority (2018)
- OLAC Video: Effective Instruction With Clear Learning Targets
For culturally responsive education:
- OLAC Video: Doug Reeves Discusses Economic Status as a Core Equity Issue
- OLAC Video: Changing District Culture to Improve Learning for All Students
- OLAC Learning Program: Culturally Responsive Practice
- OLAC Module: Educational Equity: Understanding Why It’s So Important
For English language learning:
- Community for Accredited Online Schools: ESL/ELL Resources for Teachers, Parents, and Students
- National Council for Teachers of English: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Today’s Classrooms (2018)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Research Guide: ESL/ELL Interactive Websites for Learning
- Edutopia: Resources for Teaching English-Language Learners
For students with disabilities:
- CAST
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Equity in Special Education: Disproportionality
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Disability Specific Resources
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Special Education: Federal and State Resources
- OLAC Video: Increasing Expectations for Students with Disabilities
- OLAC Module: Educational Equity: Understanding Why It’s So Important
- OLAC Module: Learning Supports
For gifted students:
- OLAC Learning Series: Gifted Education for Educators
- National Association for Gifted Children: Knowledge Center
- Teachers First: Meeting the Needs of Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom
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Do you need to learn how to judge students' current level of functioning? If so, see:
- OLAC Module: Assessment
- OLAC Video: Using Assessment to Guide Instruction
- OLAC Video: The Benefits of a Balanced Assessment System
- OLAC Video: The Importance of Aligning Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
- OLAC Podcast: Promoting a Culture of Inquiry through Formative Assessment
- National Center for Improvement in Educational Assessment (The Center for Assessment)
- Kappan: Formative Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know and Do (Heritage, 2007)
Focusing Questions for Teacher's Self-Reflection
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Do I link instruction to students' characteristics, backgrounds, and needs? Resources in this area include:
- OLAC Module: Educational Equity: Understanding Why It’s So Important
- OLAC Module: Instruction
- OLAC Module: Learning Supports
- OLAC Learning Program: Culturally Responsive Practice
- Teaching Tolerance: Classroom Culture: Classroom Culture: Honoring Student Experience
- Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC): Talking with Children About Race
- Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC): Resources
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Would I like to learn more about using assessments to learn about students’ characteristics, backgrounds, and needs? Resources include:
- OLAC Video: Using Student Self-Assessment to Guide Instruction
- OLAC Module: Assessment
- The Center for Assessment: Culturally Sensitive, Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining Education (Evans, 2021)
Download Crosswalk Professional Development Plan
Consider using this to fulfill your individual professional development plan (IPDP) to be approved by your Regional Local Professional Development Committee (LPDC).