Section 50.10  Purpose

This Part establishes the minimum requirements for the establishment of valid and reliable performance evaluation systems for employees who hold a professional educator license endorsed in a teaching or administrative field and are serving as a teacher, principal or assistant principal.  Pursuant to Article 24A of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/Art. 24A], the performance evaluation systems shall assess both professional competence or practice and student growth.  The purposes of this Part are to:

a)         identify the minimum components, including those that address the use of data and indicators of student growth as a significant factor in rating performance, of a teacher performance evaluation system and of a principal and, as applicable, assistant principal performance evaluation system that each school district must implement;

b)         provide a State model for the evaluation of teachers that addresses the use of data and indicators on student growth as a significant factor in rating teacher performance, some or all of which shall be required of a school district under certain circumstances outlined in Section 24A-4 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/24A-4]; and

c)         establish criteria for locally developed programs to prequalify and retrain evaluators, pursuant to Section 24A-3 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/24A-3].

(Source:  Amended at 38 Ill. Reg. 19741, effective September 29, 2014)