Attached are sample lessons including detailed descriptions, presentations, student work, and assessments. Enjoy!

The College of Education’s teacher work sampling model is based on work done by the Renaissance Partnership for Improving Teacher Quality. This model suggests that successful teachers:

• Support students’ acquisition of substantive learning by designing units of instruction that employ a range of strategies that build on each student’s strengths, needs, and prior experiences.

• Align learning goals with state and district content standards.

• Adjust the classroom environment and instruction to address important contextual characteristics of the classroom.

• Employ a variety of instructional resources to help students attain learning goals and to offer them new opportunities to explore important ideas or to learn new skills that have relevance to their lives.

• Use multiple assessment methods that appropriately measure learning gains towards the selected goals.

• Explore students’ understanding and thinking processes while evaluating the effectiveness of their teaching.

• Analyze studnt learning by examining individual, small group, and whole class achievement.

• Use their analysis of student assessment to guide instruction, to provide feedback to students, and to plan for professional development.

• Provide credible evidence of their instructional effectiveness through student performance.