Implementing the Framework for Teaching in Enhancing Professional Practice: An ASCD Action Tool

It's much faster and easier to implement Charlotte Danielson's renowned framework for teaching from Enhancing Professional Practice when you have this collection of tools, examples, and assessments. Teachers can use the tools, either on their own or with their students, to

- Analyze and assess teaching practice.
- Integrate elements of successful teaching into the classroom.
- Plan a course of action for teacher improvement.
- Undertake and use new teaching practices and record the results.
- Determine the results of new practices and next steps to take.

Whether you use the framework in teacher preparation courses, recruitment, mentoring, professional development, or professional learning communities, the nearly 100 tools and activities in this guide will help make the components of successful teaching the standard for practice in your school, district, or personal career. PDF versions of the tools are available for download.

Charlotte Danielson is an education consultant based in Princeton, New Jersey, and developed the framework for teaching. She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten through college, and has worked as an administrator, curriculum director, and staff developer in school districts in several regions of the United States. Danielson also served as a consultant to hundreds of school districts, universities, intermediate agencies, and state department of education in virtually every state and in many other countries. In her consulting work, she has specialized in aspects of teacher quality and evaluation, curriculum planning, performance assessment, and professional development. For several years she served on the staff of Educational Testing Service (ETS) and was involved in many signifi cant projects, including designing the assessor training program for Praxis III: Classroom Performance Assessments.