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Please allow approximately 20 minutes for completing this assessment, and avoid opening the link if you are not prepared to entirely finish the survey.  We ask that you fill out this assessment once only for each candidate and continue all the way to the "Thank you" page at the end.  If candidate performance encompasses descriptors from more than one level, select the level that best describes the candidate's progress.  
 
This Qualtrics assessment process depends upon each party fulfilling his/her responsibility at an appropriate time.  Thus, if cooperating teachers (CTs) will kindly fill in the blanks with correct teacher candidate (TC) and field supervisor (FS) email addresses, the completed survey will automatically go to the FS with a new link to finish his/her ratings and, finally, to the TC with a finished copy of scores.  Thank you.
MSU has based its final assessment on the Danielson Framework for Teaching (2007).  Full descriptors can be viewed in the complete online rubric, found at http://www.montana.edu/fieldplacement/documents/PDFs/Tchr_Cand_Assmt_rubric.pdf. Teacher candidates are expected to perform at a "Basic" (2) level in all graded categories by the end of student teaching. Based on Charlotte Danielson’s (2007) recommendations for using the framework during student teaching, 4c and 4d, while marked, are not graded (pp. 172-173). 
 
Scores of "Distinguished" (4) are reserved for experienced teachers and are not included in this assessment but can be viewed in the rubric. 
 
A score of "Unsatisfactory" (1) may indicate that the teacher candidate is not yet license-able in a given component.  Final performance assessments with "Unsatisfactory" (1) scores in any category or a recommendation against licensure will be reviewed by MSU Department of Education personnel to resolve the final student teaching grade and to determine eligibility for Montana teaching licensure.
 
The grading scale for the Danielson Final Performance Assessment (below), is designed only for teacher candidates receiving a “Basic” (2) or above in all graded categories.  The Danielson Final Performance Assessment is worth 50% of the student teaching grade; the other 50% comes from the TWS and a combination of quizzes, journaling, etc.  Thus, an "A" on this assessment does not mean an "A" in student teaching as a whole.
 
Danielson, C. (2007). Enhancing professional practice: A framework for teaching. ASCD.
Danielson Final Performance Grading Scale (For Teacher Candidates Receiving a Minimum of "Basic" (2)  in all Graded Categories)
 
50-63=A
45-49=B+
40-44=B
 



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