| (a) The teacher appraisal process requires at least
one certified appraiser.
(b) Under the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support
System (T-TESS), a campus administrator includes a principal, an assistant
principal, an administrator who holds a comparable administrator/supervisor
certificate established by the State Board for Educator Certification,
or supervisory staff whose job description includes the appraisal
of teachers and who is not a classroom teacher. Only in the event
of the circumstances identified in subsection (d) of this section
may an individual other than a campus administrator act as a certified
appraiser.
(c) Before conducting an appraisal, an appraiser must
be certified by having satisfactorily completed the state-approved
T-TESS appraiser training and having passed the T-TESS certification
examination, and must have received Instructional Leadership Training
(ILT), Instructional Leadership Development (ILD), or Advancing Educational
Leadership (AEL) certification. Appraisers without ILT, ILD, or AEL
certification before January 1, 2016, may not take ILT or ILD to satisfy
this requirement. Periodic recertification and training shall be required.
(d) An individual other than a campus administrator
may act as a certified appraiser if:
(1) the individual has been certified by completing
the training required under subsection (c) of this section prior to
conducting appraisals; and
(2) in the case where the certified appraiser is a
classroom teacher, the certified appraiser:
(A) conducts appraisals at the same school campus at
which the certified appraiser teaches if the certified appraiser is
the chair of a department or grade level whose job description includes
classroom observation responsibilities; or
(B) does not conduct appraisals of classroom teachers
who teach at the same campus as the certified appraiser if the certified
appraiser is not a department or grade-level chair.
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