You're Still a Resident Educator!

 

Think of the 2014-2015 school year as your "senior year" of being a Resident Educator. Once you successfully fulfill all of the Resident Educator requirements you will "graduate" to the Professional Educator License.

 

The Ohio Department of Education released an online module for Year 4 Resident Educators called "Learn to Lead" over the Labor Day holiday weekend, September 1, 2014. You are expected to set up an account for the "Learn to Lead" module and work through the module that establishes the Year 4 purpose and content, and leads teachers through leadership exploration, supports professional collaboration, and provides professional resources.

 

Teachscape seems to be in the scoring mode and continues to report that you should receive your RESA scores in December. In the meantime, you should be involved in your "Year 4 Teacher Leadership Activities." If you learn in December that you need to retake one or two tasks of the Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA), you will continue to work on the "Learn to Lead" module and the action plan developed as a part of the module, while completing and submitting the necessary RESA tasks. If you have three or more RESA tasks to retake, you will focus your attention on those tasks. Teachscape and the Ohio Department of Education have revised the RESA Handbook. All RESA task resubmissions will need to follow the 2014-2015 RESA Handbook, NOT last year's Handbook.

 

Early in this school year, you should develop an action plan of leadership opportunities and activities. You will select at least one activity from each of three categories of a suggested list found on the ODE website in A Guide to Year 4 - Overview and Timeline. The three categories are: Deepening Content Expertise; Collegial Professional Explorations; and Teacher Leadership. On the ODE's Resident Educator Program webpage, you have details regarding the Year 4 expectations and requirements in "A Guide to Year 4." In addition, the "Year 4 Action Plan" forms may be saved electronically or printed for completion. For your benefit, as well as the benefit of your district's Program Coordinator for the Resident Educator Program, you should log/record/document your actual activities identified in your action plan.

 

More information about your Year 4 activities will be sent to you as questions arise in the process of completing the action plan and undertaking the teacher leadership activities, and as details and clarifications from the Ohio Department of Education are released. Please share this communication and others you receive regarding Year 4 and RESA with your RESA facilitator.