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POLICIES
Guidlines
For The Final Report
Second Assessment Options
Administrator Action Plans (AAPs)
for Administrators Moving Into the PRASS Region
GUIDELINES FOR THE
FINAL REPORT
The deadline for
the completion of your Administrator Action Plan (AAP) and the
filing of your FINAL REPORT is the last three months of the
school year. And, if you are to be recertified when your administrator
certificate expires on June 30th of this year, you must also
file a completed Application for Certificate Renewal Form, along
with a recommendation for renewal from PRASS, with the Maine
Department of Education prior to the June 30th expiration date.
In order for PRASS
to recommend you for certificate renewal, you must complete
the following steps. The Review Committee strongly recommends
that you communicate with your Review Committee Mentor for assistance
in getting through these final steps.
- Complete a written
assessment (the FINAL REPORT) of your progress in completing
the activities specified in your AAP, and the extent to which
the activities helped you to meet your professional development
goals and objectives as stated in your AAP. For each goal,
include a summary of ...
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the
activities actually undertaken (be specific), |
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the
actual number of hours committed to each activity, |
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how you
benefitted from the activity, in terms of the objective
it was designed to serve, and
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the
aspects of each goal on which you need to continue to
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- Complete and
sign the back of the Application for Certificate Renewal Form,
the blue and white form that the state sends directly to you.
If you hold more than one certificate (listed on the front
of the form), be sure to indicate which certificate(s) that
you wish to have renewed. You do not have to pay for renewing
your certificate of current focus, but you may have to pay
for other certificates that you are renewing.
- Submit your FINAL
REPORT and your completed renewal application form, but not
the required fees (if any), to your Review Committee Mentor
as soon as you have completed them, but at least in time enough
for your report to be reviewed at the April, May, or June
Review Committee meeting. If the Review Committee concludes
that your completed activities have met the professional growth
goals included in your AAP, it will vote to recommend you
for recertification. (Note: If you have not received your
application for certificate renewal form by the time that
you complete the writing of your final report, submit your
final report to your Review Committee Mentor for action by
the Review Committee. Later, when you receive your application
for renewal form from the state, submit it to the PRASS office
for signing.)
Following
the Review Committee's vote to recommend you for recertification,
the PRASS Coordinator will sign, on behalf of PRASS, the recommendation
for recertification on the back of your renewal form. He will
then return the application for renewal form to you. It is
your responsibility to mail the application to the Maine Department
of Education, along with any fees that you are required to
pay.
The Review Committee
urges you to be direct, honest, and as detailed as you can about
how your activities did or did not assist you to become a better
administrator. The purpose of PRASS is to make recertification
relevant to your work. The final evaluation of your growth will
help your Review Committee know how well this system is working.
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SECOND ASSESSMENT OPTIONS
The following assessment
options shall be available for use by those candidates who previously
completed the Administrator Needs Assessment Program (ANAP)
and are beginning their second cycle of certificate renewal
under the Maine Department of Education's Chapter 502 regulations.
Option A
1. The Candidate,
with his/her Review Committee Mentor, will review his/her original
ANAP summary to identify areas of relative weakness that were
not targeted in the completed Administrator Action Plan (AAP).
2. The Candidate,
with his/her Review Committee Mentor, will review his/her portfolio
matrix (professional portfolio analysis of background) to identify
areas of relative strength and weakness.
3. The Candidate,
with his/her Review Committee Mentor, will review his/her portfolio
materials for incomplete areas needing additional focus.
4. The Candidate,
with his/her Review Committee Mentor, will review his/her current
job description and note any changes in same from the date of
the previous ANAP.
5. The Candidate
will solicit specific written feedback (recommended focus needs)
from others who have direct knowledge of the candidate's job
responsibilities and his/her job performance.
6. The Candidate
will then summarize, in writing, the results of the reviews
undertaken under items 1 4 above and the feedback received under
item 5 above and submit this to the Review Committee as an attachment
to his/her proposed Administrator Action Plan (AAP).
Approved by the
PRASS Governance Committee 5/24/94
Option B
The Candidate, working
with his/her Review Committee Mentor, may complete a new ANAP.
This may be particularly appropriate in cases where the candidate's
current certificate of focus is different from his/her certificate
of focus at the time the previous ANAP was completed.
If this option is
selected, the other persons that the candidate asks to assess
his/her skills, knowledge, and competencies by completing the
ANAP should be different persons from those who previously completed
an ANAP assessment of the candidate.
Approved by the
PRASS Governance Committee 5/24/94
Option C
The Candidate, working
with his/her Review Committee Mentor, may complete the PRASS
Optional Administrator Needs Assessment Profile. This is a locally
developed assessment instrument similar in design to the ANAP.
Although it is similar in format to the ANAP and covers the
same thirteen (13) areas of competency that the State of Maine
has identified as required competencies to be assessed in the
administrator recertification process, the Option “C”
assessment instrument does not go into as much detail as the
ANAP. The Option “C” assessment instrument requires
a self assessment by the administrator and at least two other
persons familiar with the administrator’s work.
An administrator
who elects to undertake Option “C” must contact
the PRASS office and request that the Option “C”
forms be forwarded to him/her.
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Administrator Action Plans (AAPs)
for Administrators Moving Into the PRASS Region
Administrators Who
Change Support Systems
If an administrator
with an AAP previously approved by another administrator support
system or by the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) becomes
employed by an administrative unit that is a participating member
of the Penquis Regional Administrator Support System (PRASS),
the PRASS Review Committee may take any of the following actions
with regard to the previously-approved AAP:
- It may require
that the Candidate's AAP be revised.
- It may allow
the previously-approved plan to be completed with PRASS.
- It may agree
to allow the Candidate to complete his/her AAP with the administrator
support system which approved it. It such cases, the former
support system must send a letter to PRASS upon satisfactory
completion of the AAP. PRASS will then recommend to the Maine
Department of Education that the Candidate's certificate(s)
be renewed.
In the event that
a Candidate disagrees with the Review Committee's decision as
to which course of action must be followed, the Candidate may
appeal the Review Committee's decision to the Governance Committee,
whose decision shall be final.
Approved
by the PRASS Governance Committee 5/24/94
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