Enhancing Professional Practice

Domains and Components

How might this impact student learning?

What mentoring and coaching activities might be helpful?

What artifacts and reflections might be included in my portfolio?

1.

Planning

and

Preparation

a. Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy

·  IEP Goals that match core curriculum standards

·  Core Curriculum

·  SpEd Classifications

·  Golden Rules/LRBI

·  Notifications of classes/workshops

·  Sample IEPs w/related core standards

·  Lesson plans

·  Professional development

b. Demonstrating Knowledge of Students

·  Students learn in areas that match their strengths and grow in other areas

·  Learning Styles

·  SpEd Classifications

·  Assessment recommendations

·  Completed student profiles

·  Differentiated lesson plans

c. Selecting Instructional Goals

·  Motivation to reach goals

·  SpEd Goalview course

·  Selecting appropriate and relevant goals

·  Completed Goalview IEPs

·  Goalview IEP results/reflections

d. Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources

·  Student engagement increases

·  SpEd available resources

·  District professional development resources

·  Available websites (BESD/other useful websites)

·  Document search of SpEd resources

·  Collection of websites used and reflections

·  List of and implementation of outside resources

e. Designing Coherent Instruction

·  Reachable appropriate educational goals and expectations

·  Students actively engaged in learning

·  Lessons relate to student needs

·  Teaching methods

·  Receiving student input/responding to student needs

·  Supporting RegEd classroom

·  Analyzing student data

·  Lesson Plans w/reflections

·  Student work samples

f. Assessing Student Learning

·  Appropriate placement w/instructional materials/modifications

·  Student awareness of progress

·  Collaboration

·  Assessment training (formal and informal)

·  Accommodations and adaptations for testing

·  Review student Data (assessments and progress monitoring)

·  Frequent student work samples/assessments to reveal progress