Description
Are you looking for an informative introduction to T-TESS that fulfills your state requirement? Look no further! This on-demand 3-hour long T-TESS Orientation course gives new teachers the tools needed to prepare for their yearly evaluations successfully.
As the teacher shortage crisis continues, we can help simplify your new hire process. The content is organized into five manageable modules that teachers can easily comprehend, allowing for meaningful discussions between principals and educators. Once teachers have completed this course, they will have the knowledge and confidence to help positively impact students’ learning outcomes, as well as their own performance and professional growth. The T-TESS Teacher Orientation is excellent for new and late hires.
Do your teachers need an in-depth understanding of specific T-TESS dimensions? Explore this bundle: Unpacking the T-TESS Rubric.
Kathryn – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
Concise and detailed, to the point, and very clear.
Megan – SAN MARCOS CISD (verified owner) –
I feel that if you’re already a certified observer/appraiser that you shouldn’t have to take this course. This is redundant after a 3-day comprehensive course.
Shauna – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
There was a lot of material. The start of it was convoluted but started to ease up where I understood better. I wanted to know more about scoring, but this provided a good enough start.
Roy – SILSBEE ISD (verified owner) –
Great training
BYRON – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Quite interesting
Ruth – VAN ISD (verified owner) –
very helpful
Precious – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
It was a total blast!
Ricardo – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good introduciton
John – LITTLE ELM ISD (verified owner) –
Its a great course. I enjoyed leaving comments for others to see.
Charlisa – LAMAR CISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful.
Santiago – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
It was thorough, but discussed a lot of different aspects of the T-TESS.
LAUREN – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
Great overview.
Anna – AZLE ISD (verified owner) –
It is repetitive but it helps you understand what you are going to be dealing with and how to handle it.
Deleema – ANDREWS ISD (verified owner) –
This course was interactive and interesting!
Hailey – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
The course is quick, easy and to the point. The open ended questions are a little tricky, but after some time teachers & students should be successful.
Araceli – ROBSTOWN ISD (verified owner) –
It was well presented.
Mario – EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Paige – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course was engaging and informative.
Markeya – HUNTSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I thought the course interactive.
Michelle – LITTLE ELM ISD (verified owner) –
It was alright. I wish there was a way to be able to choose the grade level and content we are teaching for the year and be told examples specifically to that
Maya – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
I like how the modules were broken up into small digestable chunks. The questions help to make it more interactive. I like being able to view other people’s responses too.
Jonathan – HUFFMAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was adequate for what it was intended to do.
Robby – HUDSON ISD (verified owner) –
A little long but worth using.
Ernesto – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
It is long but moves quickly. Oddly broken into many smaller sections but works for the free response
Sarah – PASADENA ISD (verified owner) –
I would have loved to have this training in a face-to-face capacity, but the information is very helpful for the content.
Samuel – PASADENA ISD (verified owner) –
There was a lot of information and required a lot of interaction with rubrics.
Doris – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course was informative and helped me understand what I should expect from my appraisil.
Shannon – LITTLE ELM ISD (verified owner) –
This was helpful in understanding the rubric. The timed quizzes really stressed me out though!
Jessica – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
William – DENTON ISD (verified owner) –
Kinda long an hard to stay focused at points. I also would right a response an click next before turning my response in, an it would delete my response. had to rewrite one of them do to this.
Caley – NAVASOTA ISD (verified owner) –
It was longer than I expected, but I suppose a necessary reminder if we are really going to consider ourselves professionals.
Courtney – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
It was efficient.
Artha – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
It explains a lot of information for how you will be looked at from a teachers perspective.
Emelia – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
I like how the objectives were clear and it was chunked in a way that let me work at my own pace.
Heather – LITTLE ELM ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of useful information and I enjoyed seeing responses from others.
John – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
I think it is a pretty good introduction to the concept of the T-Tess concept.
Candis – REDWATER ISD (verified owner) –
This was a very informative course, and I learned everything I need to know for my evaluations.
Dante – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
The course is good!
Olga – ROBSTOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Course was great. It was designed / developed to really help understand the evaluation process simply and to the point.
Melissa – BOLES ISD (verified owner) –
It is informative.
Arlene – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
This course helped break down the T-TESS Rubric, what an Observer/ Principal is looking for during your observation, what a proficient lesson plan looks like, and the explanation of SLO.
Kaylee – FORT STOCKTON ISD (verified owner) –
It was full of beneficial information
Brenda – ANDREWS ISD (verified owner) –
This was really insightful on how we are ‘graded’. It’s a great course to help teachers focus and plan for their goals of improvement.
Daniel – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Amazing course that explains the aspects of the T-Tess system in a way everyone can understand it clearly.
Tonya – SILSBEE ISD (verified owner) –
I like the lesson video that allowed us to play the role of an observer
Stephanie – SPRING HILL ISD (verified owner) –
Short, simple and informative.
Andraya – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course. Simple and straight to the point!
Kelly – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative on the T-TESS process
Jaylen – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
it was helpful
Christina – AZLE ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good informative course that was a great introduction to t-tess.