NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06C .0383
Plain English summary
This regulation requires all beginning teachers to create an annual Professional Development Plan (PDP) in collaboration with their mentor and principal, grounded in NC Professional Teaching Standards. Beginning teachers must participate in formative assessment conferences three times per year, complete assigned professional development, and be formally evaluated under the NC Educator Evaluation System. Public school units with approved Beginning Teacher Support Programs must submit annual performance reviews to NCDPI, which aggregates and analyzes the data on a five-year cycle.
Key requirements
- All beginning teachers must create a Professional Development Plan (PDP) annually in collaboration with their mentor and the principal or principal's designee.
- The PDP must be based on the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards as described in Rule .0384 of this Section and must include goals, strategies, and assessment of the beginning teacher's progress in improving professional skills.
- The beginning teacher, mentor, and principal must meet at the beginning, middle, and end of each year to conduct formative assessment conferences to monitor the progress of the beginning teacher in meeting the goals established by the PDP.
- Signatures of the beginning teacher, mentor, and principal are required for each formative assessment conference.
- All beginning teachers must complete any professional development assigned by the public school unit annually.
- All beginning teachers shall be evaluated in the manner outlined in G.S.115C-333.1 using the North Carolina Board of Education approved North Carolina Educator Evaluation System for measuring teacher performance on the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards.
- Public school units with approved BTSP plans must participate in an annual review to evaluate the beginning teacher's performance on the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards, which includes a beginning teacher self-assessment along with an assessment of the beginning teacher by a co-teacher.
- This review shall be filed annually with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
- Data from the annual reviews shall be summarized and analyzed by NCDPI on a five-year cycle.
Affected parties
- Beginning teachers
- Mentors
- Principals and principal designees
- Public school units
- NC Department of Public Instruction
- Public school units with approved BTSP plans