Teacher Effectiveness

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:

Planning and Preparation

Classroom environment

Instruction

Professional responsibilities

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.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education has partnered with Teachscape to provide online professional development for all teachers in the Commonwealth. In order to access the Teachscape system to take this online training and to receive Act 48 credit, you must have a verified PPID in your SAS user profile.

you know your PPID, click here to update your profile with your PPID and return to this page.
If you do not know or do not yet have a PPID but you are a PA educator, click here to go to the PERMS system to obtain your PPID.
If you cannot obtain a PPID but believe that you should have access to the Teachscape training, please contact the SAS Help Desk.

(Danielson, 2011)

Charlotte Danielson: The Framework for Teaching

Complete Rubric

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.

To access information about the Student Learning Objectives, please click here.