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Elementary Education Performance Assessment Ratings
Phase I Rating Criteria

N/A: The teacher candidate has not yet had the opportunity to demonstrate progress toward the standard.
Needs Improvement: An unskilled or inadequate performance thus far; or, the teacher candidate has not yet taken the opportunity to demonstrate progress toward the standard.
Emerging: An emerging through incomplete performance that has yet to meet the standard.
Developing: A skillful though still evolving capability that nearly meets the standard.
Meets Expectations: A highly skilled, knowledgeable and reflective performance that meets the standard.
Phase II Rating Criteria
Needs Improvement: An unskilled or inadequate performance thus far; or, the teacher candidate has not yet taken the opportunity to demonstrate progress toward the standard.
Emerging: An emerging through incomplete performance that has yet to meet the standard.
Developing: A skillful though still evolving capability that nearly meets the standard.
Meets Expectations: A highly skilled, knowledgeable and reflective performance that meets the standard.
Exceeds Expectations: A highly skilled, knowledgeable and reflective performance that exceeds the standard.