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PLANNING & PREPARATION

LOUISIANA EDUCATOR RUBRIC PLANNING DOMAIN

Strong planning begins with understanding the learning, anticipating student needs, and preparing to collect evidence of student success.

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Instructional Plans

The teacher understanding the curriculum, progression of learning, and the needs of students.

Focus: What should student learn?

Student Work

Students engage in rigourous task that make their thinking visual and demonstrate understanding.

Focus: What will student to to demonstrate larning?

Assessment

The teacher gathers evidence of learning before, during, and after instruction to inform next steps.

Focus: How will I know they learned it?

Look Fors At-A-Glance

Instructional Plans

Aligned to standards and HQIM
Lesson purpose is internalized
Student misconceptions anticipated
Questions advance thinking
Scaffolds and supports planned
Students do the cognitive work

Student Work

Aligned to the objective
Maintains grade-level rigor
Makes student thinking visible
Includes clear success criteria
Requires analysis and reasoning
Provides evidence for next steps

Assessment

Aligned to the objective
Includes checks for understanding
Collects evidence from all students
Identifies mastery criteria
Anticipates student responses
Results inform next instruction

Internalization Tools

Text Analysis Tool

Supports teachers in closely examining a text before instruction to identify its complexity, key ideas, vocabulary, structure, knowledge demands, and potential barriers for students. This tool helps teachers anticipate where students may need support while maintaining the rigor of the text.

Assessment Analysis Tool

Helps teachers study an assessment to determine what students are expected to know, understand, and do. Teachers identify priority standards, required knowledge and skills, item demands, and evidence of mastery so instruction can be intentionally aligned to the assessment.

Task Alignment Tool

Guides teachers in evaluating whether instructional tasks are aligned to the intended standard, learning objective, and level of rigor. The tool helps ensure students are completing work that actually prepares them to demonstrate mastery.

Student Exemplar Development Tool

Supports teachers in creating or identifying examples of high-quality student work that demonstrate the expected level of performance. Exemplars help clarify expectations, support feedback, and provide students with a concrete picture of what success looks like.

Questioning/Discussion Planning Tool

Helps teachers intentionally plan questions and discussion opportunities that move students from basic understanding to deeper analysis, reasoning, and application. The tool also supports planning for student-to-student discourse and opportunities for students to explain and defend their thinking.

Student Misconceptions Planning Tool

Guides teachers in anticipating common misunderstandings, errors, or incomplete thinking students may demonstrate during a lesson. Teachers identify likely misconceptions, evidence to watch for, and instructional responses that can be used to address them in the moment.

Knowledge Builder Tool

Supports teachers in identifying the background knowledge, vocabulary, concepts, and connections students need to successfully engage with upcoming content. The tool helps teachers intentionally build knowledge across lessons rather than teaching skills in isolation.

Success Criteria Development Tool

Helps teachers translate a learning objective or standard into clear, observable indicators of successful learning. Success criteria clarify what students should know or be able to do and provide a foundation for monitoring progress, giving feedback, and helping students evaluate their own work.

Resource Analysis Tool

Supports teachers in intentionally analyzing the visual, informational, and multimedia resources students will encounter during instruction. Resources may include photographs, graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, models, tables, infographics, primary sources, videos, or other representations.