PATHWISE CLASSROOM OBSERVATION SYSTEM

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PATHWISE CLASSROOM OBSERVATION SYSTEM

• DOMAIN A ORGANIZING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE FOR
  STUDENT LEARNING

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Domain A

• Knowledge of the content to be taught underlies
  all aspects of good instruction.
• Teachers must use their understanding of students
  and subject matter to decide on learning goals
  to design appropriate activities and materials
  to sequence instruction and design or select
  evaluative strategies.

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Primary Sources of Evidence for Domain A

• Class Profile
• Instruction Profile
• Preobservation Interview

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Criteria for Domain A

• A1. Becoming familiar with relevant aspects of
  students background knowledge and experiences.
• A2. Articulating clear learning goals for the
  lesson that are appropriate to the students.
• A3. Demonstrating an understanding of the
  connections between the content learned
  previously, currently, and in the future.

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Criteria for Domain A cont.

• A4. Creating or selecting teaching methods,
  learning activities, and instructional
  materials or other resources that are
  appropriate to the students and aligned with
  goals of the lesson.
• A5. Creating or selecting evaluation strategies
  that are appropriate for the students and that
  are aligned with goals of the lesson.

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Criterion A1

• Prior knowledge of subject
• Skills
• Motivation to learn
• Developmental level
• Cultural Experiences
• Diversity
• Beliefs Values
• Number of Students

• Pretesting
• Class Discussion
• Observation
• Home visits
• Communicating with parents/students
• Involved with students outside of cla

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Criterion A2

• Lesson objectives or learning outcomes
• Distinguish goals from activities
• Knowledge, concepts, facts, values
• Rationale for objectives
• Modifications

• Objectives visually displayed
• Lesson Plan
• Plan for individualizing instruction
• Articulation of clear learning outcomes

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Criterion A3

• Sequence content across lesson
• Relate to content to past, present, future
• Fit current lesson with the broad scope of the
  discipline
• Prerequisite learning

• Connection of content to past and future
  lesson-unit plan.
• Set and Closure of lesson plan.
• Chart of skills/concepts
• Curriculum guides

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Criteria A4

• Foster student involvement
• Variety of methods
• Grouping for instruction
• Materials resources
• Appropriate
• Alignment

• Instruction Profile
• Lesson plan
• Grouping of Students
• Strategies utilized
• Connection of goals, methods, activities,
  materials and evaluation.

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Criterion A5

• Alignment with objectives
• Appropriate systematic
• Variety of assessments
• Provides information about learning

• Tests
• Self evaluation
• Peer evaluation
• Anecdotal records
• Portfolios
• Products
• Video-audio-taping
• Checklists

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Your Portfolio

• DOCUMENT-Create a system/checklist to show you
  are addressing each criteria in the four domains.
  
• WORK SAMPLES Include as many performance based
  evidences as possible. I did this, not my
  teacher.
• ORGANIZATION Less is more Be selective in
  your portfolio work samples.

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Reflections in your Portfolio

• A short paragraph to explain why I chose this
  evidence for this criteria would be beneficial
  to include.