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DOMAIN 4: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Component 4c: Communicating with Families

Element

Unsatisfactory

Basic

Proficient

Outstanding

Information About the Instructional Program

Teacher provides little information about the instructional program to families.

Teacher participates in the school’s activities for parent communication but offers little additional information.

Teacher provides frequent information to parents, as appropriate, about the instructional program.

Teacher provides frequent information to parents, as appropriate, about the instructional program. Students participate in preparing materials for their families, i.e. homework, newsletters.

Information About Individual Students

Teacher provides minimal information to parents and does not respond or responds insensitively to parent concerns about students.

Teacher adheres to the school’s required procedures for communicating to parents. Responses to parent concerns are minimal.

Teacher communicates with parents about students’ progress on a regular basis and is available as needed to respond to parent concerns.

Teacher provides information to parents frequently on both positive and negative aspects of student progress. Response to parent concerns is handled with great sensitivity.

Engagement of Families in the Instructional Program

Teacher makes no attempt to engage families in the instructional program, or such attempts are inappropriate.

Teacher makes modest and inconsistently successful attempts to engage families in the instructional program.

Teacher’s efforts to engage families in the instructional program are frequent and successful.

Teacher’s efforts to engage families in the instructional program are frequent and successful. Students contribute ideas for projects that will be enhanced by family participation.