TAP RUBRIC & THE BIG 6 INDICATORS FOR TECH TEACHUnderstanding Indicators and Analyzing Instruction

TEA Standards for PPR

¨  Domain 12: Enhances professional knowledge and skills by effectively interacting with other members of the educational community and participating in various types of professional activities¤  Understands and uses PD

resources to enhance knowledge, pedagogical skills and technical expertise

As you can see the state of Texas requires that Texas Tech University prepares you as a

professional. The use of the TAP rubric helps our teacher candidates to further their

pedagogical skills and technical expertise.

THE TAP RUBRIC

Designing and

Planning Instructio

n

Learning Environment

Instruction

Responsibilities

•  Instructional Plans•  Student

Work•  Assessment

•  Managing Student Behavior•  Expectations

•  Environment•  Respectful Culture

•  Standards & Objectives

•  Motivating Students•  Presenting

Instructional Content•  Lesson

Structure &Pacing•  Activities &

Materials•  Questioning•  Academic Feedback•  Grouping Students•  Teacher

Content Knowledge

•  Teacher Knowledge of Students

•  Thinking•  Problem Solving

•  Staff Development• 

Instructional Supervision

•  School Responsibilities Reflecting on Teaching

Adapted from The Teacher Advancement Program

The Big 6-a

What is the TAPTAP Indicators¨  Rubric of instructional behaviors¨  Associated with higher student achievement¨  A little about the rubric – in the middle is

where you want to be¤  Indicator vs. Descriptor

Indicators are the 6 categories on the left side, descriptors are the

bullets under the categories: exemplary, proficient and

unsatisfactory.

Remember! In the middle is where you want to be! A score of proficient

(3) is Rock Solid!

How is TAP used in Tech Teach¨  Relevance of the curriculum¨  A&E assignments (every semester)¨  Instructors model (or should)¨  Instructors’ development¨  Performance Assessments during student teaching

ACADEMIC FEEDBACKEDLL 3352 Apply & Evaluate

Academic Feedback:• In EDLL 3352, the TAP indicator we target is Academic

Feedback.

• Using the TAP handout, look under the category of 3. Starting at the descriptor of “Most learning objectives and state content standards are communicated”, highlight key words. (see next slide)

• Remember, we are staying in the middle, so for right now, focus your attention on the 3 category.

Feedback focusing on PRAISE…

¨  Good Job!¨  Great!¨  Awesome!¨  Correct answer.¨  Yes.

Change Praise to Academic Feedback:

¨  Good Job!¨  Great!¨  Awesome!¨  Correct answer.¨  Yes.¨  You try: Change the praise to Academic Feedback.

Academic Feedback Look at the handout from Blackboard:

“Bank of Statements" to give specific academic feedback”

• Great job, you correctly told me that Trixie is one of the characters in Knuffle Bunny.

• Awesome job with your beginning & ending sentences—just like the circular text structure in the book we read “The Relatives Came.”

• You are right, car does have 3 phonemes.

• That is correct! The reason it was such a perfect answer is that spiny anteaters and duckbill platypuses do lay eggs.

• Yes! Fish is a fantastic answer because fish do lay eggs.