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Dissecting Danielson Domain 1: Making the rubric work for your CI Classroom

Posted by: Kelly    Tags:  , , , , , , , , , ,     Posted date:  September 27, 2018  |  Comment


Recently, a teacher asked in an online forum how the Danielson assessment system can be "worked" within a Comprehensible Input-focused classroom.  So I've included my rubric interpretation here. My disclaimer also should be that I rate myself high, but with rationale, and then ask my administrator to prove I'm wrong. But I want my administrator to give me specific things I should improve if they don't feel I'm doing the best possible job.  (Obviously, I totally know I can improve in many areas. But I'm not going to make it easy on them.) Please also remember that just because these can be connected...

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3-Tiered Assessment

Posted by: Kelly    Tags:  , , ,     Posted date:  September 26, 2015  |  No comment


Oh. My. Gosh.  You guys, this BLEW MY MIND today during our meeting!  I had to share it with you immediately.  Forget about my "CI in other subjects" post I said I was going to do.  Forget about the post about the awesome Canadian article that is started and sitting in my drafts.  This is fantastic. Today at my department chair meeting we were told to bring with us a task.  This was to have been a task that we asked students to complete that brings one of our "Lancer 9" Common Core Standards to life.  Our building has narrowed the CCSS for Literacy in All Subjects to 9 most critical for our...

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