Common use of Effective Instruction Clause in Contracts

Effective Instruction. The teacher makes learning goals clear to students: Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Comments: • Makes connections between concepts taught and students’ prior knowledge and experiences. • Regularly checks for students’ understanding of content and concepts and progress on skills. • Identifies confusions and misconceptions as indicated by student responses and regular assessment strategies. • Remediates, reteaches, or extends teaching to meet individual and/or group needs. • Communicates clearly in writing and speaking; uses precise language. • Understands and shows students the relevance of the subject to life-long learning. The teacher uses appropriate instructional techniques: • Uses a variety of teaching strategies, including cooperative, peer and project-based learning; audio-visual presentations, lecture, discussions and inquiry, practice and application; and the teaching of others. • Provides options for students to demonstrate competency and mastery of new material, including written work, plays, art work, oratory, visual presentations, exhibitions, and portfolios. • Uses a variety of appropriate materials in order to reinforce and extend skills, accommodate learning styles, and match instructional objectives. • Causes students to become cognitively active in summarizing important learning and integrating it into prior knowledge. Comments: The teacher uses appropriate questioning techniques: • Uses a variety of questioning techniques, including those which encourage and guide critical and independent thinking and the development of ideas. • Presents information recognizing multiple points of view; encourages students to assess the accuracy of information presented. Comments: The teacher evaluates, tries innovative approaches, and varies instructional strategies, including the effective use of technologies, to increase student learning and confidence to learn: • Regularly tries innovative approaches to improve instructional practices. • Continually evaluates, tries innovative approaches and refines instructional strategies, including the effective use of technologies, to increase student learning and confidence about learning. • Assesses instructional strategies in authentic ways by comparing intended and actual learning outcomes. Comments:

Effective Instruction. A. The teacher makes learning goals clear to students: Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Comments: • . (as per the following criteria) 1. Makes connections between concepts taught and students’ ' prior knowledge and experiences. 2. • Regularly checks for students’ ' understanding of content and concepts and progress on skills. 3. • Identifies confusions and misconceptions as indicated by student responses and regular assessment strategies. • Remediates, Remediates reteaches, or extends teaching to meet individual and/or group needsneed. 4. • Communicates clearly in writing and speaking; uses , using precise language. 5. • Understands and shows students the relevance of the subject to life-long life­long learning. . B. The teacher uses appropriate instructional techniques: • . (as per the following criteria) 1. Uses a variety of teaching strategies, including cooperative, peer and project-based learning; audio-visual project­based learning; audio­visual presentations, lecture, discussions and inquiry, practice and application; application; and the teaching of others. 2. • Provides options for students to demonstrate competency and mastery of new material, including written work, plays, art work, oratory, visual presentations, exhibitions, exhibitions and portfolios. 3. • Uses a variety of appropriate materials in order to reinforce and extend skills, accommodate learning styles, styles and match instructional objectives. 4. • Causes students to become cognitively active in summarizing important learning learnings and integrating it into them with prior knowledge. 5. Comments: Demonstrates working knowledge of current research on optimum means for learning a particular discipline. C. The teacher uses appropriate questioning techniques: • . (as per the following criteria) 1. Uses a variety of questioning techniques, including those which encourage and guide critical and independent thinking and the development of ideas. 2. • Presents information recognizing multiple points of view; view; encourages students to assess the accuracy of information presented. Comments: . D. The teacher evaluates, tries innovative approaches, and varies refines instructional strategies, including the effective use of technologies, to increase student learning and confidence to learn: • . (as per the following criteria) 1. Regularly tries innovative approaches to improve instructional practices. 2. • Continually evaluates, tries innovative approaches and refines instructional strategies, including the effective use of technologies, to increase student learning and confidence about learning. 3. • Assesses instructional strategies in authentic ways by comparing intended and actual learning outcomes. Comments:.