Module 4

Effective Teaching Strategies

1. Central Focus
2. Knowledge of Students to Inform Teaching
3. Supporting Students Literacy Learning
4. Supporting Literacy Development Through
Language
5. Monitoring Student Learning
6. Promoting a Positive Learning Environment
7. Engaging Students in Learning
8. Deepening Student Learning during Instruction
9. Analyzing Teaching
Rubric Level Language Analysis
Rubric 1: Planning for Literacy Learning
Level 2- Support student learning of skills with vague
connections
Level 3- Build on each other to support learning/ with
clear connections to skills
Level 4- Build on each other within a meaningful
context/ consistent connections to related skills
Rubric 2: Planning to Support Varied Student
Learning Needs
Level 2- Loosely tied to learning objectives or the
central focus of the learning segment

Level 3- Attention to the characteristics of the class

as a whole
Level 4- Supports address the needs of specific
individuals or groups with similar needs
Rubric 3: Using Knowledge of Students to
Inform Teaching and Learning
Level 2- limited attention to students
Level 3- justifies why learning tasks are appropriate
using examples of students
Candidate makes superficial connections to research
and/ or theory
Level 4- Candidate makes connections to research
and/ or theory
Rubric 4: Identifying and Supporting Language
Demands
Level 2- primarily address one language demand
Level 3- general language supports address use of
two or more language demands
Level 4- targeted language supports more than one
language demands including language function
Rubric 5: Planning Assessments to Monitor and
Support Student Learning

Level 2- provide limited evidence/ during the learning

segment
Level 3- provide evidence
Level 4- multiples forms of evidence throughout the
learning segment