Missouri Educator Evaluation System

The Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES) rubric is used to assess teacher candidates in the state of Missouri during their student teaching semester.  The MEES rubric is aligned with the Missouri Teacher Standards, which are the knowledge, skills, and professional behaviors that Missouri teachers are expected to develop and possess.

The MEES is aligned with the nine Missouri Teacher Standards and is similar to evaluations that school principals use to evaluate first-year teachers.  The rubric reflects the transition from "knowing" to "doing" that is expected of teacher candidates during the student teaching semester.  The MEES rubric scoring scale has five performance levels across a continuum. Cooperating teachers and university supervisors will receive instructions on completion of calibration training and the assessment from the Education Assessment office.

The MEES consists of Formative and Summative components.  Cooperating teachers and university supervisors complete the MEES Formative Assessment in the middle of the student teaching semester, and it provides opportunities for teacher candidates to analyze their growth on the Missouri Teacher Standards.  This promotes teacher candidate reflection, as well as conferencing and goal setting with cooperating teachers and university supervisors.  At the end of the student teaching semester, cooperating teachers and university supervisors complete the MEES Summative Assessment, which is one of the state's certification requirements.  The teacher candidate must obtain a combined (cooperating teacher and university supervisor) summative MEES score of 42 in order to meet DESE certification requirements.  Teacher candidates are required to obtain the passing score set by DESE at the time of their certification.

 

Teacher candidate assessment

The Teacher Candidate Performance Assessment is a specifically designed evaluation used to assess teacher candidate performance, both formatively and summatively, throughout the culminating semester. The nine focus standards were selected from the Missouri Teacher Standards to evaluate teacher candidates similarly to the principal evaluations of first-year teachers. Formative evaluations provide opportunities for teacher candidates to analyze their growth on a single standard over time. This promotes reflection, as well as conferencing and goal-setting with evaluators.

Teacher candidate assessment rubric

A Teacher Candidate Assessment Rubric has been provided for each of the nine standards with representative indicators for each standard. The rubric specifically highlights the transition from “knowing to doing” that occurs during student teaching. The first row of the rubric articulates the particular performance represented in the given standard. This articulation occurs across a continuum.