After more than 20 years of use and research, Charlotte Danielson took the original framework’s 4 domains and 22 components and also synthesized them into 6 clusters and 6 common themes. Why? To pull the big ideas from the 22 framework components and improve the quality of focused conversations for professional growth and development among teachers, administrators, and instructional coaches.
Read MoreThese indicators were most frequently marked as an area of needed growth. Which indicators have you noticed need the most growth from your teachers?
Read MoreThere are great things happening in classrooms across the world! In particular, teachers being observed in iAspire have strengths in these areas.
Read MoreThere are several different models, frameworks, and rubrics for teacher evaluations. While somewhat similar in nature, they each go about defining and measuring teacher effectiveness in different ways.
Read MorePlanning is essential in the world of education. It should come as no surprise then that teachers spend nearly half of their time involved in planning activities. With so much of their time being spent on planning, it’s important that the time is well-spent and helps achieve their most important goals.
However, just devoting enough time to planning won’t result in successfully meeting the goals - it’s critical to have the right ingredients as well. If you’re missing a key ingredient, all of your best laid plans could go awry just like it did with Blackberry.
The iAspire assistant knows what you are typing, gives suggestions that others have typed specific to what you have typed already, and will auto-suggest indicator tags.
How much time do you think this would save you during a single observation, let alone all observations you are completing throughout the school year?
Your eDNA shows you a lot of who you are as a school or organization. It helps you understand what you value, what you measure, and ultimately will help drive personnel decisions and individualized coaching that’s offered to your teachers.
Read MoreIt does take purpose, planning, practice, and time to provide meaningful feedback. However, there are very few things that make as big or bigger of an impact on teaching, and therefore student learning, than helping teachers grow.
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