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Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you are having a wonderful day today. Today, we're going to have a very big overarching lesson looking at connecting standards-based instruction to a number of professional teacher standards and practices.
For today's lesson, I've chosen a quote by Kierkegaard, which states that "life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." I think this is really important to remember because so much of what we're going to be looking at today is how to look back on teaching practices, how to look back on classroom standards. And it's important to remember that we should not necessarily get lost in all of that looking backward and that self-reflection. It's very important, but don't be too hard on yourself because life is always lived moving forward. And things looking back are much easier identified than rather when we are living them forward.
By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to review the domains of the Danielson Teaching Evaluation Model Practice Standards. You'll be able to review the 5 propositions of the National Board Teacher Practice Standards. You'll be able to review the ISTE Technology Teacher Standards. And you'll be able to connect subject and ISTE Teacher Standards with the Teacher Practice standards.
So, first, let's take a look at the Danielson Teacher Evaluation. We're going to review the major domains that are involved in Danielson Teacher Evaluation. The first domain in the Danielson model is planning and preparation. This domain as a teacher is evaluating really focuses in on the pedagogical strengths and weaknesses of what you are planning and preparing, the content resources and how well you are able to get it those resources or how knowledgeable you are of those resources, as well as your knowledge of the students in your classroom. How well do you know what you are doing, what you can use to help influence your teaching and the students in your class?
Domain 2 focuses in on the classroom environment, really breaking down how well you are establishing a constructive environment. This both looks at the physical space and how you are laying out your classroom and the students in your classroom, as well as your ability to student manage, focusing in on those students who are with you and really bringing those elements out and students who are not with you and how can we bring them back in. Domain 3 focuses in on the actual instruction, looking at your ability to communicate the elements in your lesson, any discussion questions that you are using in order to really involve the student, as well as the flexibility that you have up in front of the classroom as to whether students need to be progressing a little bit faster or a little slower.
Domain 4 finally focuses on the professional responsibility elements of being a teacher. How good are you at reflecting upon the lessons that you have done, your record keeping in terms of not only grades but student behavior, as well as the professional growth that you're participating in? I find it really interesting that built into a teacher evaluation model is that reflecting element, always tying it back to am I reflecting upon what I'm doing in the classroom? How can I improve?
Very similar to the Danielson Teacher Evaluation model is the National Board Teacher Practices. There are five propositions for the National Board Teacher Practice Standards, and those are, first and foremost, that teachers are committed to students and learning. The second proposition is that teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students. The third proposition by the national board is that teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring students' learning.
The fourth proposition is that teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from their experience, again, really getting in that review. And, finally, that teachers are members of learning communities. You can see that there are many, many connections between the ideas and the elements that are coming out through the National Board Teacher Practice Standards as well as those that were discussed in the Danielson domains.
Finally, let's recap really what those ISTE teacher standards are. Standard number one for the technology says the teacher should be facilitating and inspiring students learning and creativity, that they should design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. Teachers should be modeling digital age work and learning, as well as promoting and modeling digital citizenship and responsibility.
Finally, the ISTE teacher standards ask the teachers engage in professional growth and leadership. Again, we're seeing not only that focus on what a teacher is doing pedagogically but what a teacher is doing to reflect upon their own work, and, finally, how that teacher is furthering their own education within the field. It's important to look at all of these standards for teacher practice connected to subjects standards.
I want to quickly review what subjects standards are before we look at how we connect all of these elements together. Subject standards are the knowledge and skills that students are expected to master over the course of that year. These are to be used as a guide when planning that instruction as a teacher, and it's really important to remember that we use these subjects standards to build our objectives and those "I can" statements for our students.
So let's look at how we can connect the subject and the ISTE standards with various teacher practices. There are a couple of different ways that those standards can be used together. First, these standards can be used to evaluate teachers' standards-based and competency-based classroom instruction. What this is focusing in on is really taking those content standards and putting them side by side with the teacher standards and saying, how am I ensuring that what I am doing is helping to meet what these students are to be learning, really focusing in on the fact that both the teacher standards and the content of what we are focusing on in the classroom are being met?
Another really good way to put all of this information together is to focus in on that peer-to-peer review. In the school that I teach in, we have teachers who are set up as peer leaders. That is their job. They take a sabbatical from their teaching to come in to classrooms and say, here is the Danielson domains, which one do you want me to focus on today? I'm going to sit-in your classroom, and I'm going to mark some data for you.
Then after the review is done, we're able to discuss what that class looked like, how proficient are we or excellent are we in meeting what we were hoping to based on that Danielson Framework, and then really honing in on what part of the domains should I be focusing on for my next lesson. So it's really helpful in that peer-to-peer review of the instruction. Another really good way that those standards can be used is to reflect on standards-based and competency-based classroom instruction. What I mean by this is we're focusing in on that self-reflection.
What is it that I am doing in my classroom day, to day, to day that I can be improving on as a teacher, improving that instruction and helping to really align that standards-based grading and that competency-based element with what those various teacher practices are asking me to do?
Now that we've reached the end of the lesson, you have been able to review the domains of the Danielson Teacher Evaluation Model Practice Standards. You've been able to review the five propositions of the National Board Teacher Practice Standards. You've been able to review the ISTE Teacher Standards, as well as connect subject and ISTE teacher standards with those Teacher Practice Standards to see what all of that put together looks like in practice.
Now I would like to take just a moment for reflection. Now that you've learned about connecting all of that standards-based instruction to your professional teaching standards, what would be the first step that you might take to begin implementing these various tools into your teaching practices? Feel free to stop the video for a moment if you need to reflect upon this question.
Now it's your turn to apply what you've learned in the video. The additional resources section will be super helpful. This is the section that is designed to help you discover useful ways to apply what you've learned here. Each link includes a brief descriptions so that you can easily target the resources that you want. That's all we have for right now. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
(00:00-01:01) Intro
(01:02-01:26) Objectives
(01:27-03:37) Danielson Teacher Evaluation
(03:38-04:37) National Board Teacher Practice Standards
(04:38-05:33) ISTE Teacher Standards
(05:34-06:07) Reviewing Subject Standards
(06:08-08:24) Connecting the Standards & Practices
(08:25-08:59) Review
(09:00-09:41) Reflection
The Relationship Between Standards-Based Teacher Evaluation Scores and Student Achievement
This article from the Consortium for Research is a research-based article demonstrating that teachers who are evaluated using a standards based framework typically realize higher student achievement.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...
The Thoughtful Classroom Teacher Effectiveness Framework
This is the NY State Department of Education Handbook on evaluation that connects Marzano's framework with reflective practices and activities for teachers designed to improve practices. It provides teachers with questions to evaluate their own practices as a teacher. Although the tool may seem long and cumbersome, the reflection components can be broken down. For example, if you were focusing on building a culture of thinking and learning in your classroom, you could just use the reflection section provided in dimension 4. You might also consider having a peer reflect on your teaching practices and use the tool to guide their feedback.
http://usny.nysed.gov/rttt/teachers-leaders/practicerubrics/Docs/SilverStrongSelfAssessmentRubric.pdf
ISTE Standards
The Student, Educator and Leader Standards have been updated since 2016. To reference the Newest Generation of ISTE Standards and to see which states have adopted the most current version, visit:
https://www.iste.org/standards