Embedded Signature Assessment:

Engaging Students in Learning

InTASC Standards 3, 5, 8 & 9; edTPA Rubrics 6-10; Instruction

Classes: ARTED-208; ECE-411; CTE-405; FCSE-201; MATHED-365; MBE-301; SPED-322; STMED-460

Learning Objective: Demonstrate your ability to engage learners and deepen understanding.
Description of Signature Assignment:
Student demonstration of teaching a self-developed lesson or lesson segment that illustrates the entire lesson cycle within a pre-clinical school-
situated or a university classroom teaching demonstration setting. The lesson will be taped, viewed, and reflected upon by the student based on the
rubric criteria. The last criteria Analyze teaching effectiveness is the guide for the resultant Proof of Teaching and Student Learning paper with
evidence cited back to Positive Learning Environment, Active Engagement of Students, Deepening of Learning, and Instructional Decision Making.

Directions for Students:

Develop a lesson or lesson segment with all learning supports based on a student-learning objective that is measurable. The lesson or lesson segment
will be taught within a pre-clinical school situation, university classroom teaching demonstration setting, or instructor approved setting. You will
arrange for taping the lesson including selecting and helping them cue in on specific segments that in the lesson cycle to be taped. The resultant
artifact is a Proof of Teaching and Student Learning paper supported by up to 2 video segments of 5 minutes each (or one 10-minute clip) cited
with time stamps and explanation within the paper. The paper is supported with citation to the following criteria: Positive Learning Environment,
Leverage Prior Knowledge and Experience of Students, Deepening of Learning, and Instructional Decision Making. Please include a short
introductory paragraph that clearly identifies the primary learning objective, class or grade level, and content.

Note: Teacher candidates must collect video consent forms signed by a parent or guardian to video record students in a Pk-12 classroom setting.

Criteria 1-Unsatisfactory 2-Emerging 3-Basic 4-Proficient 5-Distinguished Score

Positive Disrespects learners Demonstrates respect Demonstrates Supports and Promotes mutual
learning and/or allows for for students within a rapport and respect promotes rapport and rapport and respect
environment disrespectful student learning environment between teacher and mutual respect within a thought
behaviors within the and primarily students in a manner between teacher and provoking learning
classroom manages learners’ that supports the students and among environment that
environment to the behavior in a manner learning objective students within a embraces expression
degree that it interferes that supports the thought provoking of varied perspectives
with student learning learning objective learning environment among students

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 Embedded Signature Assessment:
Engaging Students in Learning
InTASC Standards 3, 5, 8 & 9; edTPA Rubrics 6-10; Instruction

Criteria 1-Unsatisfactory 2-Emerging 3-Basic 4-Proficient 5-Distinguished Score

Leveraging Promotes learning Makes shallow Creates connections Uses explicit Employs explicit
prior tasks or behaviors with connections with with new/prior strategies and prior strategies through
knowledge no connection to concepts, skills or learning and active learning to create which students link
and new/prior learning problem solving with engagement with learner engagement their prior learning to
experience of little consideration to concepts, skills or within a personal their personal, cultural
students new/prior learning problem solving context or community context

Deepening Provides few Prompts students Elicits student Elicits and builds on Facilitates interactions
learning opportunities for through lower-level responses and/or student responses that advance student
student interaction questions and/or actions with that that are ability to evaluate,
and/or teacher teacher responses are feedback that are consistent with apply and demonstrate
responses provide minimal consistent with meeting the primary the primary learning
inaccurate content meeting the primary learning objective objective
leading to student learning objective
misunderstanding
Instructional Uses learning Employs learning Learning strategies Learning strategies, Learning strategies,
decisions strategies and/or strategies and/or and materials support supports and supports and materials
supportive of materials are materials that relate learning objective materials capitalize encourage and advance
learning inappropriate for the to lower level on student strengths student application/
learning objective understanding of in relation to the demonstration of the
learning objective learning objective learning objective
Analyze Suggests no changes to Proposes changes Proposes changes Proposes changes Proposes changes that
teaching student learning that minimally relate that address group that address group address individual and
effectiveness to student learning learning needs learning needs group learning needs
needs consistent with the consistent with the consistent with the
learning objective learning objective learning objective and
and related to an and provides a provides a rationale
identified theory or rationale tied to a tied to a theory or
theorist theory or theorist theorist
Total Score (25 Points Possible)

Average Score (5.0 Score Possible)

Passing Score: An average score of 2.5 or greater on the rubric provided for this Embedded Signature Assessment is required for successful completion of Benchmark II.
Instructors are required to use this rubric to assess student performance for the Embedded Signature Assessment in the School of Education Benchmark Assessment System.
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