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.
Claudia – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
A lot of informational gold.
Mayra – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It seemed well-prepared. Unfortunately the sound was not available so I had to read the notes.
Jade – CEDAR HILL ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot about t-tessing and how it can benefit me to improve as a teacher
Reagan – SPRING HILL ISD (verified owner) –
Very thorough.
Darci – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
I think this was helpful, but the 46 minute video about the lesson was very long and felt repetitive. I found myself zoning out and having to rewind so I didn’t miss anything.
Haylie – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
This course is very beneficial to understand all the dimensions, and there vocabulary/wording. It was also helpful to watch a lesson and be able to reflect upon it as the appraiser.
Darren – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course tells teachers everything they want to know about the TTESS process.
Carol – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
Good information, modules were easy to follow and I love having the opportunity to see a lesson in real time and being able to see what other teachers rated each dimension with given evidence.
carla – CORSICANA ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very thorough.
Nicole – ROYSE CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Even though it seems like 3 hours is a lot it goes by fast. I do not love all the discussion parts but I understand why they are there.
Brittany – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course that helped me as a new teacher know the expectations of the TTESS and how it can help me with my professional development in collaboration with others. It was just very time consuming. Having to complete during the year. Maybe have new teachers complete before school starts.
Briana – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
I found this course very helpful in understanding all domains of T-TESS.
Tyese – HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD (verified owner) –
As a first year teacher, I did not fully understand the purpose of the T-Tess, conferences, and evaluations. This is a educating course and I have more insight about these expectations after completing it.
Lisa – GODLEY ISD (verified owner) –
This course was beneficial to me as a first year teacher. Learning the purpose of T-TESS and how I will be evaluated makes me feel more confident in the evalauatio process.
Hector – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I was nice but would love to see one in Spanish.
Seth – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
The course is not unlike most beginning-of-year training, but it does effectively relay expectations and communicative practices between evaluators and educators.
Nicole – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It was easy to follow.
Carlisa – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It is a helpful course.
Kathryn – GARLAND ISD (verified owner) –
This course exceeded my expectations. The information was chunked well and engaging. It also had questions at well placed points. All of this helped keep my focus and kept me engaged. The questions were also good at focusing on main ideas.
My biggest issue was not having access to a printer, which mean many of the resources couldn’t be used as they were not editable. I would consider making those forms something that can be written on directly rather than needing printing.
Jesse – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This is a worth while course in understanding the process of the system better.
Jason – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
This information is important to new teachers to the field but not veteran teachers.
Olivia – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course of T-TESS and how it helps teachers grow.
William – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
I thought it was very well laid out and provided a lot of useful information for teachers at any level or stage of their career.
Kayla – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was helpful, though a little long since I already had experience with TTESS
Natalie – BASTROP ISD (verified owner) –
I liked that it was straight to the point and all the information was useful.
Alfredo – EL PASO ISD (verified owner) –
It was good.
Tyler – CENTRAL HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very helpful.
Alana – SPRING HILL ISD (verified owner) –
It was helpful!
Blanca – PASADENA ISD (verified owner) –
Great communication skills were easy to understand and I think anyone could had understood it because it is pre-recorded instead of just modules without the real-life aspect of it.
Savanah – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives you a lot of insight on to how the T-TESS process works and how to create an effective lesson to do well on this observation.
Kennedy – PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed this course.
Anthony – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Is ok
Shenette – THE VARNETT PUBLIC SCHOOL (verified owner) –
I wish their was a option for the video that we had to watch. As a math tecaher i would have preferred to watch a math recording instead of ELA.
kristal – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This training was well done. It put my mind at ease when talking about my upcoming observation. The lessons were well written and easy to understand.
Tanya – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Not interested at the moment.
Jean – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Well explained.
Ariel – WAXAHACHIE ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a lot of good information
Jackie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Because I am a new teacher starting on this journey I believe it to be a good course. A start to what I need.
Ariel – FREDERICKSBURG ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Daniel – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
For me, the first section on the rubric was terrible. I had to take a break after. I never felt Domain and Dimension were well-explained, and the circling and underlining was maddening and turned it all into word salad. I get what you were after, but I’d have been much better off just reading one of the pages and comparing the columns on my own.
Also, the printouts were hard to read. Have less white space around the borders and bigger text in the middle where it counts.
Watching the video of the classroom was the most useful. It let me look in analytically, seeing both what was good vs. bad but also what was different from myself. Comparing both of those to the rubric gave me a much better understanding of how to apply it. Frankly, I would have liked to have had more opportunity to comment on the scoring.
The SLO, though, was very poorly explained. My mentor has already walked me through it, complete with file templates and examples. If I had not had that, I would not have had any idea how to implement SLO. You spent so much so much effort on saying what it wasn’t (not a test, not a second gradebook, etc.), but you did not give much of any information on how to actually implement it in a way that would support the objectives of what it *is*.
I will say it was nice seeing responses of some of the other teachers going along with me, as I could both see where I had completely missed the point of the question as well as when I felt I had done a proper analysis. It was a bit daunting at first, but it’s always hard at first to speak up in class.
Stephanie – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
I would rate this course with 5 stars.
Laura – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
Clear explanation of what T-Tess is about.
Nickolena – NEW BRAUNFELS ISD (verified owner) –
I think overall this course was well put together. I wish when I had to watch the video as an evaluator I had the information in front of me that was needed, so I could kind of guide my grading/thinking as we were working on it.
David – EAGLE MT-SAGINAW ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great
Faye – ROYSE CITY ISD (verified owner) –
It’s insightful
Sandra – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
As a first year teacher this training was very educational and beneficial for me. I highly recommend it.
Rebecca – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This training did an excellent job of laying out how the TTESS works, and reassuring me as a teacher that my main goal is to grow and be willing to learn. For that alone, I found this very helpful.
Toryn – CENTRAL HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
It was a different type of training from what I’m used to. I enjoyed it.
Deborah – NEW BRAUNFELS ISD (verified owner) –
It is much too long.
Jermaine – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
The course was helpful.