LAER-LER Partnership Support Session

Collaborative professional learning opportunity specifically designed for preparation providers, system, school leaders and mentors. All aspiring educators deserve coaching and support as they continue to reflect on and develop instructional practices in order to positively impact student learning. The Louisiana Aspiring Educator Rubric (LAER) and the Louisiana Educator Rubric (LER) provide a continuum of support and evaluation that foster effective teaching and learning environments based on where a teacher is in their professional journey. The LAER-LER Partnership Support Sessions are collaborative professional learning opportunities specifically designed for preparation providers, system and school leaders, and mentor teachers. In these sessions, participants will leverage the LAER as a coaching tool for resident and practitioner teachers as well as early career teachers. Participants will also build awareness of the LER and its feedback and coaching components to inform their support of all teacher candidates, whether on a traditional undergraduate or post-baccalaureate pathway. Sessions will focus on making connections between the LAER and LER and building capacity to apply both tools in developmentally responsive ways through key evaluation components, including lesson observation using the LAER and LER, capturing high-quality evidence, identifying high-impact refinement areas, and planning coaching and support aligned with a candidate’s identified refinement area.