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Content Area Professional Development Needs Assessment Worksheet

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Purpose: These worksheets can be used to determine individual, as well as collective school and district-wide profiles for goal setting.

How to use the charts: Based on evidence of student learning, teachers self-assess professional growth needs using disaggregated assessment results and professional judgment.

• Place a "1-1.9" in the box "Most students NOT performing at standard" if the data indicates that the majority of your students are not able to perform this GLE successfully.
• Place a "2-2.9" in the box "Most students performing at standard" if most of your students are performing this GLE successfully and you need to make remediation and improvement plans for a few students not "at standard".
• Place a "3" in the box "All students performing at standard" if the data indicates that all students are able to master this GLE successfully.

When all averages are completed, the lowest scores are the areas needing the most professional development. Choose an area from the lowest scores for your professional growth goal. Averaging scores from all the teachers in a building can create a school-wide profile that could be used to select goals for school improvement planning.

For more information about Professional Growth Needs Assessment Worksheets please visit: http://www.k12.wa.us/ProfDev/