Domain 1
the name / category of Domain 1
What is Planning and Preparation?
The name / category of Domain 2
What is Learning Environment?
The name / category of Domain 3
What is Learning Experiences?
This domain the principal evaluates.
What is Domain 4 Principled Teaching?
The description of this Element of Success is "Planning and Preparation reflect extensive knowledge of important concepts and how they relate to one another, as well as recent developments in the discipline."
What is Disciplinary Expertise?
The description of this Element of Success is about how the teacher communicates with the students and how the students speak to and treat each other.
What is 2A:1 Positive Relationships, student to student?
In this Element of Success, thie teacher uses rigorous language that is applicable to the subject. This language is used consistently by both the teacher and the students.
What is Proficient in Use of Academic Language?
In this Component teachers respond to student needs based on real-time evidence and student questions. When students have difficulty, they persist in seeking alternative methods to support the students.
What is Component 3E: Responding Flexibly to Student Needs
This component is concerned with different learning styles.
What is Knowing and Valuing Studetns?
You observe a teacher who appropriately models, teaches and reinforces habits of character (Give rating and Element fo Success)
What is Proficient in 2E:2 Modeling and Teaching Habits of Character?
During an informal observation, you notice the teacher seeking participation in discussions and asking questions from many students, but only a few are consistently answering questions or participating in discussions. (Give Rating and Element of Success)
What is Basic in 3B:3 "Student Participation"?
During a planning conference, you ask a teacher how they are planning for small group sessions, and they inform you that they prefer to only to teach in whole group settings. (Give rating and Element of Success)
What is unsatisfactory in 1E:3 Student Collaboration.
You observe a classroom in which the teacher has somewhat of a system of using formative assessments to keep track of student learning. (Give rating and Element of Success).
What is Basic in 1F:3, Planning Formative Assessments?
You walk into the classroom and see desks arranged facing the back of the room, but it does not matter because the students are sitting on top of the desk eating snacks. (Rating and Element of Success)
What is unsatisfactory in 2E:1 "Safety and Accessibility"?
You observe a teacher who at the beginning of the class the passes back work from the previous class with an attached scoring guide that includes constructive feedback.
What is Proficient in 3D:3 "Timely, Constructive Feedback"?
A teacher tells you that a student told them that their parent had threatened them with physical harm and they were scared because they had been hurt before. The teacher said they just ignored it because the student was a handful and probably deserved it anyway. (Give a rating and Element of Success)
What is unsatisfactory in 4F:3 Advocacy?
During a conference, a teacher telss you they use only activities that were prepared from their cooperating teacher from their student teaching. The activities have not been changed in twenty years. (Give rating and Element of Success)
What is unsatisfactory in 1E:1 Tasks and Activities?
During a drop in, you hear the teacher tell the students that the work is very hard and they dont expect them to succeed, but they have to teach it because it's part of the curriculum. (Rating and Element of Success)
What is unsatisfactory in "2B:4 Support and Perserverance"?
During a Formal Assessment, you notice the teacher approach a student who has their head down. The teacher tells the student it is up to them if they plan to get anything out of the lesson. The student puts their head back down and the teacher does not glance at them the rest of the period.
What is unsatisfactory in 3E:3 "Determination and Persistence"?
The teacher's instruction was engaging to students and provided them with choices so that the learning would be more meaningful to them. (Give Rating and Element of Success)
What is distinguished in 3C:1 "Rich Learning Experiences".