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This is the second of a draft-quality (for now) series of posts about the Danielson evaluation tool and how the qualifiers and criteria can apply to a Comprehensible Input-focused classroom. If you're just stumbling onto this now, you can find Domain 1 here.

Danielson Domain 2:  The Classroom Environment

Okay!  This one is probably the least difficult to make fit a CI class, because frankly a good environment is a good environment!  There are certainly some...

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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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Today I was reading some notes from a conference I attended a year or two ago, and realized something that hit me like a ton of bricks:  I need a system.  Truth be told, I need several systems.  And they need to work together. I work out at a great gym with franchises throughout the middle of the US called Farrell's eXtreme Bodyshaping.  I've been a member for 5 years.  (Please withhold the comments about how not so extremely my body seems shaped...I like cake.)  Anyhow, every day that I've gone there for five years, I walk...

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