Instructional Framework Rubric: Remote Teaching & Learning Companion Updated: 11/23/20
TEACH 2. Use strategies and tasks to engage students in rigorous work
While teaching, teachers use strategies in order to engage each student in rigorous work and learning that provides challenge. Teachers use curricular materials, evidence-based strategies,
and appropriate differentiation and scaffolding to provide access points for students at all levels. Through these strategies, students are empowered to take charge of their learning and
classwork.
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE (4) WHAT THIS MAY LOOK LIKE VIRTUALLY WHAT THIS MAY LOOK LIKE IN OUR SCHOOL EFFECTIVE (3)
students determine and
select strategies
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tha
t
support their learning
n
eeds and goals to enga
ge
i
n the learning task.
● Teacher incorporates
student voice an
d
ch
oice
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into lesson,
while maintaining
access to grade-level
or beyond learning
● Teacher gives students purposeful time to
independently generate responses or
participate in group discussion (e.g.
breakout rooms, online collaboration tools)
and monitors the platform.
● Students show their processes in real-time
using teacher monitored platforms (e.g. Go
Guardian) or online whiteboard as teacher
provides feedback directly on student
work.
● Teacher provides student work that is
easily accessible and organized with clear
expectations; multiple resources for
different levels of learners are provided as
needed (e.g. Google Classroom).
● Students purposefully annotate documents
on online platforms (e.g. Google Docs or
Microsoft 365) with teacher modeling and
support.
● Teacher assigns or releases students to
breakout rooms, synchronous document
groups, or specific independent tasks
based upon real-time formative
assessment results (poll or visual quick
check for understanding e.g. thumbs up on
camera or response in chat).
opportunities to engage in
and grapple
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with complex
texts
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and rigorous tasks.
● In response to teacher’s
guidance, students engage in
the lesson learning and use
strategies to persist in order
to meet the challenge.
● Teacher appropriately
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p
rovides scaffolds
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or
differentiates
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in a manne
r
th
at supports each
student’s
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access to grade-
level or beyond learning.
● Teacher uses or models
evidence- based strategies
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to engage students with texts
and/or tasks.
● Teacher’s release of
responsibility to students i
s
responsive to how students
engage with complexity and
challenge.
15 Students can draw on strategies and resources to support them in accessing a challenging text or task. Examples include, but are not limited to, students using a resource text, class notes or manipulatives while working on an assignment.
16 Student voice and choice may include students selecting the essential question to focus their learning, selecting the format or final product to demonstrate their learning, or selecting the text(s) or materials for their learning
17 When students grapple with a text or task, they should go through a “productive struggle,” not a struggle so overwhelming that they are unable to work through it.
18 Texts are not limited to literary work. May include, but are not limited to, informal images, texts, images, graphs, artwork, musical pieces, modeled movements, and letters.
19 Appropriately refers to scaffolds and differentiations informed by IEP or ELL supports/plans or based on student data, information resulting from progress monitoring, and/or progress on formative and summative assessments.
20 Appropriate scaffolding does not mean teachers scaffold every task. Teachers scaffold only when the complexity of the task and/or students’ prior knowledge requires scaffolding. Effective scaffolding of learning tasks results in multiple pathways to
completion and/or determining the correct response.
21 Differentiation’s primary goal is ensuring rigorous content for all students. Although product, process, content or task may be altered to provide access to different students, the differentiated task should lead all students to produce work at the level of
rigor that the standard requires. Teachers can differentiate above the level of the standard.
22 “Each student” does not mean each individual student has a different scaffold or differentiation strategy, rather it means each student’s needs and strengths are accounted for as they are placed in an appropriate instructional group and receive work
tailored to the instructional group that meets his/her or receive scaffolds. Instructional groups can be determined based on various student data such as skill levels, current progress, interests and ability levels.
23 Strategies may include modeling, cooperative learning, using graphic organizers, teaching strategies with content, or helping students engage in metacognition.