What
are Standards of Classroom Practice?
Standards
of Classroom Practice are descriptive statements designed
to help educators engage each other in dialog and critiques
around the quality of the learning experiences that they
design and provide to students.
Why Standards of Classroom Practice?
The
term Standards of Classroom Practice suggests that there
are some descriptors of the classroom learning environment
that schools or districts could articulate that might rally
teachers and help them develop joint ownership of a vision
at the classroom level. Achievement measures are important
as information about how students are performing but schools
should also hold themselves accountable for the quality
of the learning process that happens teacher by teacher,
classroom, by classroom.
Where
do Standards of Classroom Practice come from?
Groups
of educators can develop them. Go to SERVE-Leads
Standards of Classroom Practice to see a set of standards
that a consortium of districts brainstormed. Or they can
come from the research base on learning (see Principles
of Learning) or other summaries of characteristics of
school work that engage students (Tripod
Project and Schlecty's
WOW Framework).
Once
defined, a school or district may want to collect some needs
assessment survey data from teachers. The following survey
was developed by SERVE for use in Bay District Schools in
Panama City, Florida. Standards of Classroom Practice Survey
 .
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