TAH Self Rating Grid

Allied Educational Research And Development Services

Teaching American History Component Self-Rating Grid

Directions:

The funding source for the Teaching American History (TAH) Grant requires an annual grant evaluation. Your response to the items below will be very helpful to evaluators in assessing the impact of current grant activities on program participants. While collective group data will be shared with the program planners, your individual responses will be seen only by the evaluators and will remain confidential. The survey should be completed by May 1 of 2007.

Filling in your name and email address is necessary to verify that a survey has been received from each TAH grant participant and will not be used in any other manner. Follow-up reminders will be sent to individuals not responding to the self-rating grid according to grant evaluation timelines.

Begin the survey by completing the personal information and entering the date you are completing the form. Across the top of the grid are five levels of implementation. Please select a level of current implementation for each of the five components listed down the left side of the grid.

After reading the descriptors, find the column that best describes your overall level of implementation for EACH of the TAH components and click the button in that column. The format requires you to choose a performance level for each component each time you complete the form. Your response for each component should represent your current level of implementation at the time you complete the form.

Below each rating please provide a brief summary of activities in which you are currently involved to substantiate your rating for that component. (A brief explanation of the activity is required for each component) When typing your summaries, PLEASE do not use a carriage return when you come to the end of the line. The text will automatically wrap to the next line.

Thank You,

Larry Gwaltney and Joyce Reger - TAH Program Evaluation Team

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Teaching American History Program Components ↓	Awareness: I have a beginning awareness of the TAH Grant Program component (1 to 5) listed on the left.	Knowledge/ Understanding: I have specific knowledge and understanding of how methods, strategies, and aspects of the TAH Grant component can be used in planning and implementing instruction and have begun to plan for classroom use.	Low Risk Practice: I have begun to practice implementing the TAH Grant component and I am gaining confidence in its use.	Application: I consistently use the TAH Grant component to engage students in participatory learning.	Coaching: In addition to consistent application, I am involved in coaching other teachers (school-wide and/or district level) in the understanding and teaching of instructional strategies included in the TAH Grant component.
Component 1. Involve students in the use of various strategies emphasized in the grant as a means of teaching about history
Please provide a brief summary of current activities/strategies used to support your self-rating for # 1.
Component 2. Involve students in the use of persuasive writing as a means of communicating what they have learned
Please provide a brief summary of current activities to support your self-rating for # 2.
Component 3. Integrate a variety of sources and perspectives into instruction as a means of expanding student's exposure to varying points of view related to history
Please provide a brief summary of current activities to support your self-rating for # 3.
Component 4. Involve students in the use of a variety of technologies as a means of gaining more in-depth knowledge and understanding of history
Please provide a brief summary of current activities to support your self-rating for # 4.
Component 5. Involve students in developing and testing hypotheses and using evidence to support their position.
Please provide a brief summary of current activities to support your self-rating for # 5.

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