Domains

Strategies:

Knowledge of the content & structure of the discipline

• • Standards Documents

  • Current Content Knowledge & Pedagogy

  • Real-Life tools, models, and assessments

  • Professional reading (logs)

  • Online professional development

  • Congruent learning activities

  • Learning targets

  • Misconceptions

Knowledge of Prerequisite relationships

• • Outlines and overviews of units

  • Big Ideas

  • Literacy standards

  • Connection among content areas

Knowledge of Content Related Pedagogy

• • Understanding of Pedagogy

  • Differentiation

  • Relating theory to practice

  • assessment

  • technology

  • learning conversations

  • Multi-sensory learning

  • Modeling

  • Hands-on Experiences

Strategies:

Knowledge of child and adolescent development

• • Direct Instruction Sessions Match Student Attention

  • Self-monitoring

  • Reflection Time Given

  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)

Knowledge of the learning process

• • Cognitive Load Theory

  • Scaffolding Learning

  • Plan with Students

  • Pre-Assessments (gathering prior knowledge)

  • Link to prior knowledge

  • Connection to students culture

  • Know the students (ie. Getting to know you Forms, activities)

  • Background knowledge

Knowledge of Students' Special Needs

• • Modifications

  • Lesson Adjustments

  • Utilize assistive technology resources/extensions

  • Addressing needs

Strategies:

Value, sequence, and alignment; Clarity & Balance

• • Personal Connections

  • Goal Setting

  • Progress Checks

Suitability for Diverse Learners

• • Connection through Visuals

  • Connection through Movements

Strategies:

Resources for Classroom

• • Norms/Expectations

  • Alternative activities after mastery

  • Blended Learning

  • Flipped Classroom

  • Increasing purpose

Resources to extend content knowledge

• • Listservs

  • Professional Organizations

  • ACS Professional Learning

Resources for Students

• • Lessons/Videos by students or teachers

  • Interest/Engaging

  • Varied reading levels

  • Options for learning beyond the class-time

Strategies:

Learning activities

• • Involve students in the planning

  • H.O.T. (Higher order thinking); cognitive rigor

  • Prior knowledge identification (KWLs, questioning/reflections)

  • LDC's

Instructional materials and resources

• • Choice boards

  • student journals

Instructional groups

• Flexible grouping

• Cooperative Learning

Lesson and unit structure

Strategies:

Congruence with outcomes

• • Essential standards

  • Backwards planning

  • Rubrics

  • Self-assessments

  • Key vocabulary

Formative assessments

• Pre-assessments

• Wrong-answer analysis

• Flashbacks

• Polls

• Immediate feedback

• Data collected & analyzed for planning

Strategies:

Teacher interaction with students

• Learning about students

• Listening to students

• Empowering students

• Respecting students

• See them as "possibilities"

• Be open with students

Student interaction with students

• Establishing Classroom Meetings

• Cooperative activities

• Peer tutoring

• Nurturing social skills

Strategies:

Importance of content

• Teaching to the level of rigor in the standard

• Teach for Engagement

• Active recall

• Timely reviews

• Model cooperation

Expectations for learning and achievement

• Ten Strategies for Creating a Classroom Culture of High Expectations

• Student goal setting

Student pride in work

• Displaying student work

• Celebrations

Strategies:

Instructional groups

• Cooperative Learning

• Grouping practice

• Learning menus

• Time built in for learning process (understand directions, process material, reflection on learning)

Transitions

• Routines & schedule is known

• Timers, time-limits, and warnings

• Waiting time engagement strategies (flashcards, secret word, discussion)

• Signal Words

Materials and supplies

• Numbering students

• Management of learning evidence

• Student Jobs

Non-instructional duties

• Systems for routines

• System for keeping records

Supervision of volunteers and paraprofessionals

Strategies:

Expectations

• Modeling/teaching expected behavior

• Body language and gestures

• Student choice

• Risk-taking climate

Monitoring behavior

• Activities

• Proactive

• ClassCraft/ClassDoJo

• Reward System

• De-escalate

• Avoid power struggles

• Non-verbal cues

Strategies:

Safety and accessibility

• Stations

• Rotations

• Technology

Arrangement of furniture and resources

• Displays

• Strategic modeling of classroom

Strategies:

Expectations for learning

• Essential standards aligned & congruent with lesson/activities

• High expectations/ Rigor

• Plan with students

Directions and procedures

• Misconceptions are addressed

• Clear directions & formatting of directions/activity instructions

Explanations of content

• Real-Life connections

• Interest/engagement (know student prior knowledge/schema)

• Graphic organizers

• Model

• Memory aids

• Direct instruction for key vocabulary

• Gradual Release

• Reflection process

Use of oral and written language

• Vocabulary

Strategies:

Quality of questions

• Level of questioning

• LDCs

• Socratic Method

• Follow-up questions

• Whys

• Why/what if/ How

• Clarify

Discussion techniques

• Ground rules

• Modeling discussions

• Human graphs

• Four Corners

• Online discussion post

• Polling

• Smackdowns

• Question STEMs

Student participation

• Think-pair-share

• Jigsaw

• TodaysMeet

• Padlet

• Participation rubrics for discussion topic

• Fishbowl

Strategies:

Activities and assignments

• Cognitive Science (Understanding how the brain works)

• Growth Mindset

• Builds on prior knowledge or schemas

• Student directed

• Power of praise

• Curiosity for engagement

• Show and tell

• Pre-teach vocabulary

• Graphic organizers

• Sentence starters

• Think Aloud

• Menus

• Cooperative Learning Models

Student groups

• Flexible

• Assigned by ability/purpose

Instructional materials and resources

• Supplemental

• Choice

• LDCs

Structure and pacing

• Pacing

• Think time

• Extra time for processing/reflecting

Strategies:

Assessment criteria

• Matches the standard

Monitoring of student learning

• Pre-test

• Flashbacks

• Learning Logs

• Polling

• Metacognition

Feedback to students

• Feedback helps to reach goal

• Immediate (voice, writing)

Student self-assessment and monitoring

• I "learned"

• One/Three Slide summary

• Thumbs Up

• Wrong-answer analysis

• Tracking data of growth

Strategies:

Lesson adjustment

• Mini-lessons

• Formative

• Chunking

• Identifying prior knowledge or schema

Response to students

• Differentiation

• 1:1 student conference

• Visual explanations

• Examples/Non-examples

• Acting it out

• Students put it in their own words

• Analogies or metaphors

Persistence

• Identifying different tools or strategies to try

Strategies:

Accuracy & Use in future teaching

• Vision

• Updated plans

• Journaling or reflecting

• Data reflection

• Lesson reflection

• PLCs

• Conversations with colleagues

Strategies:

Student completion of assignments

• Checklist

• Charts

Student progress in learning

• GradeCam

• Classroom

• Infinite Campus

• Binders/Notebooks (digital or non)

Non-instructional records

• Routines/procedures

Strategies:

About instructional program

• Teacher website

• Social Media

• Parent/family communication

About individual students

• Contracts/ Learning agreements

Engagement of families in instructional programs

• Parent academy, Parent nights, parent engagement activities

• Showcasing student work

Strategies:

Relationships with colleagues and involvement in culture of professional inquiry

• Mentor

• Collaborate

• Book Study

Service to school and participation in school projects

• SBDM

• Volunteer

• Special committees/projects

Strategies:

Enhancement of content knowledge / pedagogical skill

• Professional reading

• Developing skills

• Professional organizations

• Online communities

Receptivity to feedback from colleagues

• Developing partnerships

• Seeking feedback

Service to the profession

• Professional communities

• Online communities

• Presenting at local/ regional/ state conference/events

Integrity/ethical conduct

• Protecting data

• Loyalty to students and staff

Service to students

• Communication of Care for Growth

• College or Career planning

• Interpersonal Interactions

• Building social and emotional skills

• Conversational Cues

• Modeling behavior you expect to see

Advocacy

• Students needs

• Students perspective

Decision-making

• Teamwork

• Know the process

• Leadership roles for students

Compliance with school/district regulation

• Complete State Required trainings ACPC, ACIC, JEBMS, AC-SHS

• Be informed

• Know the rules

• Value student perspective