NYCTF Basics
What does NYCTF stand for?
What is New York City Teaching Fellows?
The part of your lesson where you activate prior knowledge.
What is the Do Now?
CR-SE considers this a key strength rather than something that needs to be “fixed.”
What is culture?
This domain focuses on procedures, student behavior, and the learning environment.
What is Domain 2: Classroom Environment?
If you ignore student sarcasm, don’t call on certain students, or dismiss questions, you’ll likely struggle in this rubric component.
What is 2a: Creating an Environment of Respect and Rapport?
This NYC public agency partners with NYCTF to place and certify Fellows.
What is the NYC Department of Education (DOE)?
This practice involves asking students to explain how they got their answer.
What is using accountable talk or student reasoning?
A Fellow co-designs a project with students to investigate food deserts in their neighborhood. What two CRSE principles are most reflected?
What are Inclusive Curriculum and High Expectations for Rigor and Relevance?
This component (3d) checks if students are aware of how their learning is being monitored.
What is Using Assessment in Instruction?
If your lesson goal is unclear and your language is vague or incorrect, this component will take the biggest hit.
What is 3a: Communicating with Students?
This summer training experience prepares Fellows for the classroom with coaching, observations, and a bit of emotional whiplash.
What is the Teaching Academy (TA)?
These embedded moments help you understand if students are learning in real time.
What are Checks for Understanding?
A student struggles academically, but the teacher focuses on their growth and celebrates small wins. Which CRSE principle is this?
What is High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction?
This planning domain measures whether the teacher aligns instructional activities with clear student outcomes.
What is 1e: Designing Coherent Instruction?
This final rubric domain evaluates how well you reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and how you plan to improve next time.
What is 4a: Reflecting on Teaching?
This phrase appears on every rubric component and reminds Fellows that "being nice" isn't enough.
What is "to support student learning"?
A strong CFU (Check for Understanding) isn’t just a question—it’s also followed by this key action.
What is making an instructional move based on student responses (adjusting teaching)?
If a lesson only includes dominant narratives, it fails this CR-SE principle.
What is inclusive curriculum and assessment?
You’ll lose points in 1c if your objective starts with “We will explore…” instead of focusing on measurable outcomes.
What is failing to write a clear “By statement”?
A teacher’s curriculum reflects only Eurocentric texts, uses one-size-fits-all assessments, and ignores student language backgrounds. What CR-SE violations are happening?
What are lack of inclusive curriculum, deficit views of students’ cultural knowledge, and failure to provide access through differentiation?
What are the three support roles you work with during TA?
What are Collaborative Coach, Field Effectiveness Manager, Lead Instructor?
An effective way to push thinking during questioning.
What is asking follow-up or higher-order questions?
CRSE asks educators to go beyond cultural relevance and aim for this, which emphasizes sustaining students’ identities and communities.
What is cultural sustainability?
When your questions challenge students to explain their thinking and bounce ideas off each other, you're shining in this component.
What is 3b: Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques?
According to NYCTF’s observation philosophy, alignment means connecting these three lesson elements.
What are: Objective, activities, and assessments (also accepted: Do Now, By Statement, Exit Ticket)?