Description
Task 2: Supporting Continuous Professional Development
In this task, you will demonstrate your skills in establishing and supporting effective and continuous professional development with your assigned staff for the purpose of improved instruction and student learning.
Task 2 Overview
Standards
Each of the guiding prompts to which you will be responding is directly aligned to the standards upon which this task was developed. To read your specific state or national standards before beginning your work, access them on the Performance Assessment for School Leaders website.
What Do I Have to Do for This Task?
For this task, you must submit the following evidence.
1. Written Commentary of a maximum of 28,500 characters (approximately nine typed pages) that
responds to all guiding prompts
references your artifacts to support your written evidence
describes, analyzes, and reflects on the evidence
2. Seven different artifacts (a maximum of eight pages) including
one representative page from the prioritized list
representative pages from the professional development plan (maximum of two pages) (A sample template is provided, but candidates can submit a form of their own.)
one representative page from the research (e.g., a bibliography, a specific online resource, or a district source)
one representative page of an assignment given to teachers and/or students
one representative page from a walk-through observation form completed for one teacher (A sample template is provided, but candidates can submit a form of their own.)
one representative page of a student work sample from one student
one representative page from a feedback survey completed after the professional development (A sample template is provided, but candidates can submit a form of their own.)
PASL Candidate and Educator Handbook 6
3. For this task, you will also select three participants with different levels of experience, observe them teaching, and determine the impact that the professional development had on their teaching and their students learning.
How to Submit Your Evidence (Refer to the Submission System User Guide for details):
Upload your artifacts into your Library of Artifacts.
Refer to the artifacts in your Written Commentary.
Link the artifacts to your Written Commentary within the appropriate textbox.
How to Compose Your Written Commentary:
This task has four steps that are scored, each with guiding prompts to help you provide evidence that supports your response. Your response needs to address all parts of each of the guiding prompts.
Step 1: Designing Building-level Professional Development
Step 2: Implementing Building-level Professional Development
Step 3: Analyzing Three Participants Responses
Step 4: Reflecting on Building-level Professional Development
Please read the entire task before responding to any guiding prompts. Use the guiding prompts to compose your response. Remember to include any required artifacts.