Goals+of+the+Process

= Goals of the Process =

**The Framework for Teaching** Domain 1 - Planning and Preparation Domain 2 - The Classroom Environment Domain 3 - Classroom Instruction Domain 4 - Professional Responsibilities

**Outcomes:**
 * Improve student learning by promoting quality teaching
 * Recognize and celebrate and learn from good practice
 * Foster professional collaboration and community
 * Encourage professional learning
 * Provide direction for professional development
 * Provide evidence of the professional qualities of teachers
 * Provide constructive feedback to individual teachers
 * Unify teachers and administrators in their collective efforts to educate students

Guiding Principles
**The RVIS Professional Growth Process:**
 * Offers balance structure and flexibility and aims to utilize time and resources efficiently
 * Incorporates research best practices in the field of teacher evaluation and professional development
 * Provides differentiated pathways for different groups of teachers: novice/experienced, but new to RVIS/experienced returning, teachers in need of support
 * Is embedded in the ongoing work of teachers including planning, classroom practice, and school wide initiatives
 * Targets professional growth and improved student learning
 * Offers balance structure and flexibility and aims to utilize time and resources efficiently
 * Incorporates research best practices in the field of teacher evaluation and professional development
 * Provides differentiated pathways for different groups of teachers: novice/experienced, but new to RVIS/experienced returning, teachers in need of support
 * Is embedded in the ongoing work of teachers including planning, classroom practice, and school wide initiatives
 * Is a respectful process - requiring trust and a supportive climate, and authentic engagement from all concerned
 * Involves reflection on every day practice, and opportunities to recognize and learn from good practice