19 Tex. Admin. Code § 150.1001 - General Provisions
(a) All school
districts have two choices in selecting a method to appraise teachers: a
teacher appraisal system recommended by the commissioner of education or a
local teacher appraisal system.
(b)
The commissioner's recommended teacher appraisal system, the Texas Teacher
Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS), was developed in accordance with the
Texas Education Code (TEC), §21.351.
(c) The superintendent of each school
district, with the approval of the school district board of trustees, may
select the T-TESS. Each school district or campus wanting to select or develop
an alternative teacher appraisal system must follow the TEC, §
21.352, and §
150.1007 of this title (relating
to Alternatives to the Commissioner's Recommended Appraisal System).
(d) The commissioner may designate a regional
education service center to serve as the T-TESS certification provider for the
state. The designated regional education service center may collect appropriate
fees under the TEC, §
8.053, from school
districts and open-enrollment charter schools for training and
certification.
(e) Sections
150.1002 through 150.1006 of this title apply only to the T-TESS and not to
local teacher appraisal systems.
(f) The statutorily required components of
teacher appraisal are defined as follows.
(1)
The implementation of discipline management procedures is the teacher's
pedagogical practices that produce student engagement and establish the
learning environment.
(2) The
performance of teachers' students is how the individual teacher's students
progress academically in response to the teacher's pedagogical practice as
measured at the individual teacher level by one or more student growth
measures.
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