1) Explaining core content

2) Posing questions about content

3) Choosing and using representations, examples, and models of content

4) Leading whole class discussions of content

5) Working with individual students to elicit, probe, and develop their thinking about content

6) Setting up and managing small-group work

7) Engaging students in rehearsing an organizational or managerial routine

8) Establishing norms and routines for classroom discourse and work that are central to the content

9) Recognizing and identifying common patterns of student thinking in a content domain

10) Composing, selecting, adapting quizzes, tests, and other methods of assessing student learning of a chunk of instruction

11) Selecting and using specific methods to assess students’ learning on an ongoing basis within and between lessons

12) Identifying and implementing an instructional strategy or intervention in response to common patterns of student thinking

13) Choosing, appraising, and modifying tasks, texts, and materials for a specific learning goal

14) Enacting a task to support a specific learning goal

15) Designing a sequence of lessons on a core topic

16) Enacting a sequence of lessons on a core topic

17) Conducting a meeting about a student with a parent or guardian

18) Writing correct, comprehensible, and professional messages to colleagues, parents, and others

19) Analyzing and improving specific elements of one’s own teaching

These practices will be applied to all of the activities found in my portfolio, as well as being categorized according to them.