Post on 13-May-2015
JPAS AND OTR
A Comparison
HOW CAN STUDENTS RESPOND?
Individually
Group
With peers
Orally
Signs
Written
Labs
Projects
Gel Boards
Cards
Chart Paper
Responders
Choral
Discussions
White Boards
Bell Ringers
Exit Cards
Essay Questions
Multiple-Choice
Literature Circles
Demonstrations
JPAS DOMAINS
Although there are 5 domains, only 3 are assessed during observation :
Domain 1: Managing the Classroom
The teacher efficiently manages student behavior, time and materials.
Domain 2: Delivering Instruction
The teacher effectively structures, presents, and conveys knowledge and
skills and monitors student acquisition of the knowledge and skills.
Domain 3: Interacting with students.
JPASDOMAIN 1
Domain 1: Managing the Classroom
The teacher efficiently manages student
behavior, time and materials.
4 indicators are linked to opportunities to respond.
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 1
#1 Students off-task (Sweep every 10 minutes – if
students are responding they are on task)
#5 Adjust instruction (Use student responses to
determine if instruction needs to be adjusted)
#11 Uses management routines (Possibility to use
hand signals, etc. to have students respond)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 1
#13 Minutes of nonacademic time (If students are
responding throughout the entire class time, the
potential to have nonacademic time is eliminated)
JPAS DOMAIN 2
Domain 2: Delivering Instruction
The teacher effectively structures, presents,
and conveys knowledge and skills and monitors
student acquisition of the knowledge and skills.
16 indicators relate to opportunities to respond.
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 2
#14 Factual questions (Responses to factual questions are opportunities to
respond)
#16 Demonstrates skills/procedures (Teacher shows the students how to do
something. When the student does it, that is an opportunity to respond.)
#19 Reviews (Questions used during a review are opportunities to respond.
#20 Pre-assessment (Many of the activities used during a pre-assessment are
opportunities to respond, e.g., questions, demonstrations)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 2
#22 Teaching/learning strategies (Most of strategies provide
students opportunities to respond.)
#27 Higher-order questions (Each of these questions is an
opportunity to respond)
#29 Sustains interactions (When teachers sustain interactions
with a students, they are providing those students with an
additional opportunity to respond.)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 2
#30 Task-oriented peer interaction (When students respond
to each other or the teacher in small groups, they have
opportunities to respond.)
#31 Problem Solving, #32 Cause-effect analysis, #33
Application activity, #34 Brainstorming (All of these
activities provide opportunities for students to respond.)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 2
#35 Prepares students for activities (When teachers
question students to ensure they are prepared for the
activity, the students have opportunities to respond.)
#36 Supervises independent practice (Students should be
responding in some fashion as they do their
independent practice.)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 2
#37 Correctives (The teacher is correcting the
responses the students made.)
#38 Monitors student performance (The teacher is
monitoring the responses the students are making.)
JPAS DOMAIN 3
Domain 3: Interacting with students.
10 indicators relate to opportunities to respond.
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 3
#39 Student participation (This is big one! The person doing
the JPAS evaluation tallies each new student who
participates.)
#40 Academic feedback (The teacher responds to student
responses.)
#42 Encourages reluctant students (If students are not
responding, the teacher encourages them to participate.)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 3
#43 Reinforces desired behavior (If the reinforcement is
connected to student responses, this indicator relates to
opportunities to respond.)
#44 Acknowledges learning efforts (The teacher is acknowledging
the connection between responses and learning.)
#45 Student demonstrations of knowledge or skills (These are
opportunities to respond.)
JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 3
#46 Practices communication skills (Depends on the type of response—if
it is restating an idea in the lesson, it is an opportunity to respond.)
#47 Guided practice (This provides multiple opportunities to respond.)
#48 Checks for understanding (These are opportunities to respond.)
#49 Learning environment (This indicator assesses the total interactions
between teacher and student.)
SUMMARY
Of the 49 indicators assessed
during each classroom observation,
30 or 61% are related to
opportunities to respond.