TEACHER VIDEO OBSERVATION RUBRIC

DOMAIN I:
Student Engagement

EXCEPTIONAL

EFFECTIVE

2
Students are engaged
in learning tasks,
relevant to lesson or
that address
understandings
relevant to lesson
objective

PROGRESSING
TOWARD GOAL
1

UNSATISFACTORY

Students are
participating in learning
tasks focused mostly on
basic facts or
procedures relevant to
the lesson objective
with little or no attention
to deeper
understandings.

Students are passive or

inattentive or
participating in tasks that
are vaguely or
superficially related to
the lesson objective.

PROGRESSING
TOWARD GOAL
1

UNSATISFACTORY

Component 1:
engages students in
learning tasks that
develop
understandings
and/or skills relevant
to the learning
objective

Students are engaged

in differentiated
learning tasks that
deepen and extend
understandings and or
skills relevant to the
lesson objective by
addressing individual
learning needs.

DOMAIN II:
Deepening Student
Learning

EXCEPTIONAL

EFFECTIVE

Component 2: Elicits
and builds on
students' responses
to promote
conceptual and/or
skills development

Teacher designs
learning experiences
that allow students to
evaluate their own
abilities to understand
and apply relevant
concepts or skills.

Teacher elicits and

builds on student
responses that require
and promote conceptual
and or skills
development.

Teacher asks primarily

lower level questions
and evaluates student
responses as correct or
incorrect.

Teacher does most of the

talking, with few
responses from students.

Component 3: Uses
instructional
strategies in ways
that deepen students'
understanding of
and/or ability to
apply relevant
concepts or skills

Teacher uses
instructional strategies
in ways that deepen
students
understanding of
and/or ability to apply
relevant concepts or
skills and facilitates
interactions among

Teacher uses
instructional strategies
in ways that deepen
student understanding
of and/or ability to apply
relevant concepts or
skills.

Teacher uses
instructional strategies
that address concepts
or skills in vague or
superficial ways.

Teacher focuses on facts

with no opportunities for
student application or
practice.

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students.

Domain III:
Maintaining a
Positive and
Challenging
Learning
Environment
Component 4:
Demonstrates
rapport with and
respect for students
in a positive and
challenging learning
environment

EXCEPTIONAL

EFFECTIVE

Teacher demonstrates
rapport with and
respect for students in
a positive and
challenging learning
environment where
students demonstrate
willingness to take
risks and support each
other to achieve.

Teacher demonstrates
rapport with and respect
for students in a
positive learning
environment.

PROGRESSING
TOWARD GOAL
1

Teacher provides a
learning environment
which primarily controls
student behavior but
does not challenge
students academically.

UNSATISFACTORY
0

There is evidence of
disruptive and/or
disrespectful behavior
that interferes with
student learning.