61 20 DOMAIN 3: Instruction COMPONENT 3E: Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness The student teacher demonstrates adaptability to adjust and differentiate instruction for all PK-12 students and promotes learning through extensive instructional strategies and flexibility for student interests and teachable moments. Exemplary • The student teacher seizes an opportunity to enhance learning for all PK-12 students, building on student interests or a spontaneous event (such as a teachable moment); successfully adjusts and differentiates instruction to address individual student misunderstandings. • The student teacher persists in seeking effective approaches for PK-12 students who need help, using an extensive repertoire of instructional strategies and soliciting additional resources from the school, community, or other sources. Expected • The student teacher promotes the successful learning of all PK-12 students, making minor adjustments as needed to instruction plans and accommodating student questions, interests, and needs. • The student teacher draws upon a broad repertoire of strategies and persists in seeking approaches for PK-12 students who have difficulty learning. Emergent • The student teacher attempts to modify the lesson when needed and to respond to student questions and interests, with moderate success. • The student teacher accepts responsibility for student success but has only a limited repertoire of strategies to draw upon. Unsatisfactory • The student teacher adheres to the instruction plan despite evidence of poor student understanding or lack of interest. • The student teacher ignores questions; when PK-12 students experience difficulty, the teacher assigns fault to external factors. Not Observed Discussion Prompts: • How do you determine when to make adjustments to the lesson to enhance understanding by groups of PK-12 students? • What is your protocol for incorporating PK-12 students’ interests and questions into the heart of the lesson? • How and when do you employ alternate approaches when PK-12 students are having difficulty? • How do you communicate to PK-12 students there are other approaches to try when they are experiencing difficulty? Evidence of Practice: • Teachable moments • Student ability and/or interest-based lessons • Flexibility in schedule changes 20
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