The required minimum number of evaluations will be fewer for the vast majority of teachers.
If you are a tenured teacher, the number of observations your principal or other evaluator will conduct depends on your overall rating from previous school years:
- Highly Effective for the prior year: minimum of two informal observations.
- Effective in the prior year and Highly Effective, Effective or Satisfactory in the year before that: minimum of two informal observations.
- Effective in the prior year and Developing, Ineffective or Unsatisfactory in the year before that: minimum of three informal observations.
- Effective in the prior year and no rating in the year before that: minimum of one informal and one formal observation.
- Developing in the prior year: minimum of one formal and three informal observations.
- Ineffective in the prior year: minimum of one formal and four informal observations.
- No rating in the prior year: minimum of one formal and three informal observations.
If you are a probationary teacher, you will receive a minimum of one formal and three informal observations. If you are a probationary teacher who was rated Ineffective in the previous school year, you’ll receive a minimum of one formal and four informal observations.
As in previous years, there is no maximum number of observations.