A: All teachers, specialists, instructors, and administrators must comply with the Effective and Growth Systems requirements. The following definitions apply in accordance with Senate Bill 290 and the Oregon Framework (ESEA Waiver):
Teacher: Any individual holding a Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) teaching license or registration (ORS 342.125 & 342.144) or who is otherwise authorized to teach in the public schools of the state and who is employed as an instructor at .5 FTE and at least 135 consecutive days of the school year (as per ORS 342.840).
Instructor: Includes those individual who meet the definition used in ORS 342.121 “instruction includes direction of learning in class, in small groups, in individual situations, in the library and in guidance and counseling, but does not include the provision of related services, as defined in ORS 343.035(15), to a child identified as a child with a disability pursuant to ORS 343.146 when provided in accordance with ORS 343.041-343.065 and 343.221.” Instruction does include provision of specially designed instruction (special education) provided in accordance with 343.035(19). Please refer to ORS 343.035(15)(a) and ORS 343.035(18) for additional information.
Administrator: Any individual holding a TSPC Administrator license includes any licensed educator (ORS 342.125 & 342,144), the majority of whose employed time is devoted to service as a supervisor, principal, vice principal or director of a department or the equivalent in a fair dismissal district but shall not include the superintendent, deputy superintendent or assistant superintendent of any such district or any substitute employed by such a district.
Specialists: These educators may use measures of learning specific to academic subjects as well as to social, emotional, behavioral, or skill development including measures of their impact on students related to their job responsibilities.
English Language Development (ELD) Teachers: Teachers who only provide instruction in English Language Proficiency for English Learners are not considered teachers in “tested grades and subjects” because they are not providing instruction the content areas of ELA and Mathematics, but rather the language skills necessary to access those content areas. Consequently, they would not be required to set goals using Category 1 measure (state assessments). Teachers who provide both instruction in ELA or Mathematics and language proficiency are required to set goals using Category 1.
Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA): Teachers who do not instruct students directly such as instructional coaches, or mentor teachers, etc. must include measures of their impact of school-wide and district-wide goals for student achievement and must include measures of their impact on students related to their job responsibilities.
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