Pennsylvania has adopted Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching as the overarching vision for effective instruction in the Commonwealth. The model focuses the complex activity of teaching by defining four domains of teaching responsibility:
Domains 1 and 4 cover aspects of the teaching profession that occur outside the classroom, while Domains 2 and 3 address aspects that are directly observable in classroom teaching.
(Danielson, 2011)
Teaching Professionals with Unique Roles and Functions serve in many different capacities across the Commonwealth given their varied roles, function and contexts. As shown, committees of educators worked to develop general and specific examples as an optional and potentially useful supplement to the existing and already validated Danielson Rubric for use with instructionally certified personnel.
Please note that these are examples only and are not meant to represent the full range of training, experience or unique roles and functions that a given educator may provide. Discussion of examples may help the evaluator and person being evaluated facilitate meaningful conversation and were not developed to be used as evidence or lack thereof within practice and the evaluation process.
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- Autistic, MDS and Life Skills
- Examples for Autistic, MDS and Life Skills
- Guiding Questions For Autistic, MDS and Life Skills
- Career and Technical Education Teachers
- Examples for Career and Technical Education Teachers
- Guiding Questions for Career and Technical Education Teachers
- Examples for Teachers of Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- Examples for Teachers of Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- Guiding Questions for Teachers of Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- Examples for Early Childhood Teachers
- Examples for Early Childhood Teachers
- Guiding Questions For Early Childhood Teachers
- Emotional Support Teachers
- Examples for Emotional Support Teachers
- Guiding Questions For Emotional Support Teachers
- English as a Second Language Teachers
- Examples for English as a Second Language Teachers
- Guiding Questions for English as a Second Language Teachers
- Examples for Gifted Education Teachers
- Examples for Gifted Education Teachers
- Guiding Questions for Gifted Education Teachers
- Instructional Coaches
- Examples for Instructional Coaches
- Guiding Questions for Instructional Coaches
- Learning Support Teachers
- Examples for Learning Support Teachers
- Guiding Questions For Learning Support Teachers
- Online Educators
- Examples for Online Educators
- Reading Specialists
- Examples for Reading Specialists
- School Librarians
- Examples for School Librarians
- Guiding Questions For School Librarians
- Speech and Language Pathologist Teachers
- Examples for Speech and Language Pathologist Teachers
- Guiding Questions For Speech and Language Pathologist Teachers
- Teachers of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Examples for Teachers of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Guiding Questions For Teachers of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
