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Adept Overview

The ADEPT Framework (February 2008), a training video that provides an in depth look at the revised ADEPT system, is now available online

Watch the video
Download the PowerPoint presentation (47 slides)

ADEPT System Guidelines (80 page pdf) approved June 14, 2006

ADEPT System Guidelines Implementation Timeline (1 page pdf) updated July 2007
ADEPT Steering Committee Acknowledgements (2 page pdf) ADEPT Steering Committee

ADEPT Regulation 43-205.1 amended June 24, 2005

ADEPT Statute (10 page pdf) amended July 22, 2004

External Review of South Carolina's Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Professional Teaching (ADEPT) Program June 2003

Complete Report (115 page pdf) complete study
Executive Summary (5 page pdf)

Overview of the ADEPT System for teachers, administrators, and teacher candidates updated June 2006

ADEPT Flow Chart and accompanying explanation of contract levels and evaluation processes

ADEPT Frequently Asked Questions updated July 2005

SAFE-T Evaluation
  • SAFE-T is the new Summative ADEPT Formal Evaluation of Classroom-Based Teachers. In 2008-09, twenty-six jump-start school districts will begin using SAFE-T with their classroom based teachers who are employed under annual and continuing contracts and who are scheduled to undergo formal evaluations. SAFE-T will be implemented statewide in 2009-10.

    • SAFE-T Guide for Teachers and Evaluators (69-page pdf)

    • Teacher Templates (Word documents)

        TT1: Long-Range Plan
        TT2: Unit Work Sample
        TT3: Reflection on Instruction and Student Learning
        TT4: Professional Self Assessment

    • Evaluator Templates (Word documents)

    •     ET1: Classroom Observation Record
        ET2: Professional Performance Review
        ET3: SAFE-T Summary

    • SAFE-T Extensions. The following links are intended to provide guidance regarding the interpretation and application of various SAFE-T requirements. These clarifications are provided in response to questions that have arisen from the field.

        Long-Range Plans: Number Required
        Classroom Observations: Number Required
       

    Names of Evaluation Team Members: Notification to Teachers

        Preliminary Evaluation Period: Beginning Date

     

    • Jump-Start Districts

    ADEPT Formal Evaluation Summary and optional evidence documentation template, based on the original ADEPT Performance Dimensions for classroom-based teachers revised June 2006 (11 page doc)

    State Board of Education-approved statewide criteria for successfully completing ADEPT formal evaluations

    ADEPT for Special Areas approved October 2003

        Library Media Specialists
        School Guidance Counselors
        Speech-Language Therapists

    ADEPT for Special Areas training videos are available online at http://knowitall.org/EducatorPlus/content/program.cfm?SeriesIDpassed=34.

    HOUSSE South Carolina's "high, objective, uniform state standard of evaluation"

        Training for HOUSSE evaluators (32 slide ppt)
    Goals-Based Evaluation (GBEs)