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Task 2: Instruction Commentary
TASK 2: INSTRUCTION COMMENTARY
Respond to the prompts below (no more than 6 single-spaced pages, including prompts) by typing your responses within the brackets following each prompt. Do not delete or alter the prompts. Commentary pages exceeding the maximum will not be scored. You may insert no more than 2 additional pages of supporting documentation at the end of this file. These pages may include graphics, texts, or images that are not clearly visible in the video or a transcript for occasionally inaudible portions. These pages do not count toward your page total.
1. Which lesson or lessons are shown in the video clips? Identify the lesson(s) by lesson plan number.
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2. Promoting a Positive Learning Environment
Refer to scenes in the video clips where you provided a positive learning environment.
a. How did you demonstrate mutual respect for, rapport with, and responsiveness to students with varied needs and backgrounds, and challenge students to engage in learning?
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3. Engaging Students in Learning
Refer to examples from the video clips in your responses to the prompts.
a. Explain how your instruction engaged students in developing an essential literacy strategy and related skills.
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b. Describe how your instruction linked students prior academic learning and personal, cultural, and community assets with new learning.
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4. Deepening Student Learning during Instruction
Refer to examples from the video clips in your explanations.
a. Explain how you elicited and built on student responses to promote thinking and apply the essential literacy strategy using related skills to comprehend OR compose text.
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b. Explain how you modeled the essential literacy strategy AND supported students as they practiced or applied the strategy to comprehend OR compose text in a meaningful context.
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5. Analyzing Teaching
Refer to examples from the video clips in your responses to the prompts.
a. What changes would you make to your instructionfor the whole class and/or for students who need greater support or challengeto better support student learning of the central focus (e.g., missed opportunities)?
Consider the variety of learners in your class who may require different strategies/support (e.g., students with IEPs or 504 plans, English language learners, struggling readers, underperforming students or those with gaps in academic knowledge, and/or gifted students).
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b. Why do you think these changes would improve student learning? Support your explanation with evidence of student learning AND principles from theory and/or research.
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