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Performance Pay - Outstanding Teacher

Survey Guidelines

Because we needed to design one client survey useful at all levels and with all students it was determined that for the purpose of this survey, the "client" input is the combined parent and student input. The survey is sent to the parent with the suggestion that the parent and student complete the survey together. Teachers whose clients are not predominately students may substitute additional peer surveys in the place of a number of client surveys. The teacher must first discuss this approach with the administrator. It is critical that a consistent and fair process be followed when conducting the peer and client surveys. Please make note of the following instructions:

1. Teachers are to pick up the survey forms from their BRT or school office.
2. Teachers are to select twenty client survey forms and parent letters. Ten are to be sent to people chosen by the teacher while the other ten are to be given to the administrator. The teacher is responsible for filling in the return address information for all twenty surveys. [Because of concerns that have been expressed at the elementary level, we've decided to modify the number of surveys required at that level and for special services teachers. We encourage all teachers to survey at least 20 clients in order to obtain more feedback. However, any teacher who serves fewer than 40 students will be required to survey at least one-half of his/her clients (student/parent clients). If a total of fewer than 20 are sent, half of those sent should be sent to recipients chosen by the teacher and half to recipients chosen by the administrator.]
3. Teachers are to select four peer survey forms. Two are to be sent to people chosen by the teacher while the other two are to be given to the administrator. The teacher is responsible for filling in the return address information for all four surveys.
4. It is the teacher's responsibility to submit to the administrator a list of the ten names of client survey recipients and the names of the two peer survey recipients selected by the teacher.
5. The administrator will choose the recipients of the other ten client surveys and two peer surveys and will handle the distribution of those survey documents.
6. It is the teacher's responsibility to mail the surveys to the names on their lists.
7. It is the responsibility of the teacher to provide self addressed return envelopes for all survey recipients.
8. Teachers whose clients are not predominately students may substitute additional peer surveys in the place of a number of client surveys. The teacher must first discuss this approach with the administrator.
9. In order for you to review the survey results and to have your portfolio ready in time, we recommend that you send the surveys out by the middle of March.
10. All responses to the surveys will be returned to the teacher.
11. It is permissible to use school mail for all of the above.

Applicants are asked to consider that while the survey instrument is very important, it is only one aspect of the complete portfolio. Responses can be extremely helpful in improving instruction and the outstanding teacher will use the results for the purpose of improving his/her teaching style and methods.

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