The professional core courses, competencies and experiences for the Instructional Coach Endorsement program are designed to address the specific set of issues, knowledge, and competencies that are relevant to coaching, teaching, assessment and learning. Participants will participate in an examination of various assessment strategies and current methods of assessment, through the study of theory and effective practices in assessment translated into design. The philosophy of Pennsylvania’s Standards Aligned System (SAS) is embedded in this course experience, as well as the required field experiences. These experiences shall include the analysis of disaggregated student data to implement effective change in teaching and assessment practices will be explored to enable candidates to gain the knowledge and experience to work successfully with all school staff and the school community. Research based strategies for the assessment and instruction of diverse learners will be examined. The SAS Assessment Builder will be utilized to create an assessment at various grade levels. The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument (Danielson, 2011 Edition) will be utilized to correlate all work to the appropriate Domains I and V.
- Teacher: Grace Cisek