Student Growth Objectives Overview and Impact on Educational Specialists

General Overview Student Growth Objectives (SGOs) are academic goals for groups of students that are aligned to state standards and can be tracked using objective measures. As part of the student achievement component of evaluation under AchieveNJ, each teacher sets SGOs with input and approval from his or her principal or supervisor at the start of the year. Specifically, teachers and principals/supervisors are expected to collaborate around the instructional content that will be covered and the skills and knowledge that will be measured. Principals are held accountable in their own evaluations for how well they help teachers with this process and for the degree to which SGOs are met by the teachers in their school. SGOs should be developed using available student data and created to be ambitious but achievable.

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How Can We Use This Information To Develop SGOs For Educational Specialists?

General Student Growth Objectives

Sample Target Goals For Educational Specialists  80% of all students that fall within my caseload will pass all core courses.  75% of students will be able to identify acts of plagiarism.  85% of students that fall within my caseload will pass all courses in which they receive special education services.  10% of all students that fall within my caseload will increase a level when scheduling academic courses for the following year.  20% of all students that fall within my caseload will demonstrate a decrease in discipline referrals.  15% of all students that fall within my caseload will demonstrate an increase in attendance rates.

Specific Student Growth Objectives

Sample Target Goals For Educational Specialists  25% of students determined to be “at risk” within my caseload will pass all courses for the school year.  0% of students disciplined due to plagiarism incidents will be disciplined again due to an incident of plagiarism.  0% of students participating in my “Girls To Women” group will be involved in a fight.  95% of students within my caseload will pass Resource Room Math.