NATIONAL

COMPETENCY-BASED
TEACHER STANDARDS
(NCBTS)

A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE

FOR FILIPINO TEACHERS

September 2006
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CONTENTS

General Introduction to the NCBTS 3

What is the NCBTS? 3

Why do we need the NCBTS? 3
Who should use the NCBTS? 4
How should teachers use the NCBTS? 5
Is the NCBTS New? 6
What does competency-based mean? 7
How were these competencies chosen? 7
Is the NCBTS just a list of competencies? 8
Does the NCBTS make teaching more difficult? 11
What if the teacher cannot do this type of teaching? 11
How can the NCBTS help teaching improve their teaching? 12
How does the NCBTS define good teaching? 13
What are the seven domains of good teaching? 14

Domain 1: Social Regard for Learning 17

Domain 2: Learning Environment 19

Domain 3: Diversity of Learners 24

Domain 4: Curriculum 27

Domain 5: Planning, Assessing and Reporting 32

Domain 6: Community Linkages 36

Domain 7: Personal Growth and Professional Development 38

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE NCBTS

What is the NCBTS?

The NCBTS is an integrated theoretical framework that defines the different
dimensions of effective teaching, where effective teaching means being able to
help all types of students learn the different learning goals in the curriculum.

Why Do We Need the NCBTS?

Filipino teachers often get mixed signals about what it means to be an
effective teacher. For example, they may have been taught definitions of good
teaching by teacher educators in their pre-service education that seem to be
different from what their principals and supervisors expect in their schools. Or
teachers are taught new teaching approaches that seem inconsistent with the
Performance Appraisal System. What is worse is when teachers who have the
reputation of being ineffective teachers are promoted to higher ranks.

The NCBTS provides a single framework that shall

define effective teaching in all aspects of a
teachers professional life and in all phases of
teacher development. The use of a single
framework should minimize confusion about what
effective teaching is. The single framework should
also provide a better guide for all teacher
development programs and projects from the
school-level up to the national level.
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Who Should Use the NCBTS?

Anyone who is interested in improving teaching practices should refer to the
NCBTS. Thus, teacher education institutions shall use the NCBTS to design and
implement effective pre-service teacher education curricula. The PRC shall
refer the NCBTS in designing the Licensure Exam for Teachers. Organizations
and agencies that implement in-service education for teachers (INSET) shall
refer to the NCBTS in developing their interventions. Award-giving bodies shall
refer to the NCBTS in defining their criteria for outstanding teachers.

The DepED shall use the NCBTS in formulating its hiring, promotion,
supervision, and other policies related to the teaching profession. It shall also
use the NCBTS to guide its INSET programs for teachers.

Most important, individual teachers in all the public elementary

and high schools all over the country shall use the NCBTS for
their professional development activities.
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How Should Teachers Use the NCBTS?

Teachers can use the NCBTS in many ways:

As a guide to reflect on their current teaching practices

As a framework for creating new teaching practices
As a guidepost for planning for professional development goals
As a common language for discussing teaching practices with other
teachers

The best way to begin using the NCBTS is to

use the competency-based framework as
the guide for thinking critically about
whether the teachers current practices
are helping students attain the learning
goals in the curriculum.

A teacher can use the various elements of

the NCBTS to determine whether their
different actions and strategies as teachers
are effective in helping their students learn
the desired curriculum objectives. Thus,
the NCBTS can be used as a self-assessment
tool.

It is most likely that in using the NCBTS, a

teacher will see herself as demonstrating some dimensions of effective
teaching, but not others. As all teachers aim to be more effective facilitators
of student learning, the NCBTS can then serve as a framework for revising
current practices or for developing new teaching practices that would make
teaching more effective. In other words, the NCBTS can cue the teacher about
what she should be doing, in case she finds her current practice less than ideal.
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This self-assessment can help teachers plan for their professional develop in
the short-term and in the long-term. For example, using the NCBTS the
teacher can be aware of her strengths as a teacher and ensure that she
becomes more consistent in demonstrating her strengths. At the same time,
she can plan on professional development strategies so that she can improve on
her weaknesses.

Thus, the NCBTS can help each Filipino teacher become a better teacher, and
assist each teacher to continuously think about improving professional to
become even better and better as facilitators of student learning.

With the NCBTS all Filipino teachers also share a common vocabulary for
discussing their teaching practice, for defining their ideals as teachers, for
negotiating and creating strategies to improve their practice, and for
addressing their various stakeholders regarding the improvement of the
teaching profession.

Is the NCBTS New? How Similar or Different is it?

Many of the specific items under the NCBTS are not new. This is because many
ideas about good teaching have been practiced for some time now. But what is
new about the NCBTS is that these ideas have been integrated into a singular
integrated framework.

In addition, there are actually

relatively new ideas that the
NCBTS is emphasizing. For example,
the idea of competency-based
standards is a relatively new idea in
teacher development in the
Philippines, which is being
emphasized in the NCBTS.
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What Does Competency-Based Mean?

Basically, competency-based means that the standards or criteria for
characterizing good teaching are defined in terms of what the teacher is
competent to do. So instead of defining good teaching practice in terms of the
teachers credentials, LET scores, grades in graduate school, degrees,
personality traits, and so on, we look at what the teacher can do competently.
In the NCBTS, good teaching is being defined in terms of those practices that
help students learn better. So the NCBTS is concerned with whether teachers
are competent in helping students learn.

How Were These Competencies Chosen? How Was the NCBTS

Decided?
The competencies in the NCBTS were derived from (a) educational theories and
empirical research on characteristics learning environment and teaching
practices that lead to effective student learning, and (b) documented
successful practices and programs of schools, divisions, regions, and
educational reform projects in different parts of the country. A technical
working group was set up to study what types of classroom learning
experiences were associated with high levels of student learning in the
Philippines. Then the teaching practices associated with these learning
experiences were defined. These practices were then organized and then
presented in a series of national, zonal, and sectoral consultations for
validation and finalization.

The bulk of the participants in the consultation were teachers and master
teachers, so we can be sure that actual classroom teachers validated these
competencies. But there were also school heads, principals, supervisors,
superintendents and other division officials, regional directors and other
regional officials, representatives from academe, teacher education
institutions, NGOs and other government agencies like the CHED, PRC, CSC, and
NEDA, among others.
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Is the NCBTS Just A List of Competencies? Or is there A

Theory or Framework That Integrates All These
Competencies?
The NCBTS does not adhere to a single educational theory. Indeed, it is a
balanced framework that adopts assumptions of different educational theories.
But underlying this framework is a core set of assumptions about teaching that
is significantly different from the traditional conceptions of teaching.

For example, the NCBTS articulates a view of ideal teaching that is closely
linked to new paradigms about effective learning. So the qualities of the good
teacher are not defined in an abstract technical sense, because teaching is not
viewed as a technical process. Instead, the NCBTS defines a new paradigm of
teaching where the teacher is viewed as a knowledge professional who is
responsible for facilitating learning in variety of learners and learning
environments.

This view also emphasizes the technical knowledge of teacher, but more
important, it emphasizes the essential link between teachers knowledge and
students learning. Therefore, teachers knowledge and skills are meaningful,
useful, and effective only if they help students learn within their learning
environment.

This makes the process of teaching essentially complex and problematic in that
it has to be suited to varieties of learners and learning environments. So
teaching is not a one-strategy-fits all undertaking. Instead, it means choosing
among a variety of strategies and maybe even creating new strategies, all with
the goal of helping learners learn.
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Therefore, good teaching requires the teachers active involvement in

designing, redesigning, and evaluation of the learning experiences of students.
Thus, the image of the good teacher is one who is constantly reflecting about
how best to help different types of learners learn. The teacher is not a mere
implementer of pre-defined or prescribed sets of actions. Instead, the teacher
is an active agent engaged in higher level thinking about how to help the
students learn.

This high level thinking processes involved in teaching necessarily refer to

factors in the learning context. So the definition of good teaching needs to be
closely linked to the contexts in which they will be agents of learning in
students. Teaching processes never occur in a vacuum; that teachers will
always aim to be effective within their actual contexts; and the contexts can
provide constraints as well as opportunities for effective student learning.

We can say express the theme of this new paradigm of teaching as follows:

Teaching involves the reflective acquisition and application of

complex and problematic technical knowledge to facilitating
student learning in actual contexts.
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We can summarize this new paradigm by comparing it to

the traditional views, as shown in the following table:

Table 1. Contrasting the Paradigms of Teaching

The Traditional View The NCBTS View

Teaching is facilitating learning, and

Teaching is a technical process, and
the qualities of good teaching are
the good qualities of this technical
defined in terms of whether
process are well defined.
students learn or not.

Teacher knowledge is essentially

Teacher knowledge is technical
complex and problematic;
knowledge applicable to all learners
applicability varies across learners
and contexts.
and contexts.

Teaching involves reflective and

Teaching involves consistent flexible application of technical
application of technical knowledge. knowledge in ways that best bring
about student learning.

Effective application of teacher

Effective teaching is determined
knowledge dependent on
within the limits and opportunities
prerequisite inputs in teaching
found in the learning environment.
environment.
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Does the NCBTS Make Teaching More Difficult?

Actually, NO. Teachers have always been expected to help all their students
learn given the constraints in the learning environment. So theres nothing
new here. The NCBTS has simply articulated this expectation so that it is clear
to all concerned.

What If the Teachers Cannot Do This Type of Teaching?

The NCBTS is not just a standard against which teachers will be evaluated.
More important, the NCBTS is a guide for helping teachers become more
effective teachers or more effective facilitators of student learning. In other
words, the NCBTS takes a developmental perspective about teaching standards.
The framework provides concrete guideposts to help teachers become better
and better.

Actually, the NCBTS assumes that

teachers themselves are
interested in improving their
practice. It disagrees with the
stereotype that Filipino teachers
are not interested or motivated
to change and improve their
teaching.
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How Can the NCBTS Help Teachers Improve Their Teaching?

First, the NCBTS makes certain assumptions about improving teaching. In
particular, the NCBTS assumes that:

Individual teachers have various types and levels of motivation to

improve their teaching in ways that better enhance student learning.
Individual teachers have different capabilities to constantly improve
their teaching for better student learning.
Individual teachers have diverse ranges of opportunities to pursue their
motivations and raise their capabilities to teach better, in whatever
situations they are.
The process of improving teacher is an individual process, but this is
sustained and enhanced when the efforts are collaborative and
synergistic among communities of teachers.
Individual teachers may develop improved teaching practice for
enhanced student learning, but the full impact on student learning is
best achieved by integrated and cumulative improved efforts of many
teachers.
The qualities of good teaching for enhanced student learning are found
in individual teachers, but such qualities are strengthened and valued
more when it is supported by communities of teachers and educators.

These assumptions point to the understanding that teachers themselves are the
most important agents in the improvement of their teaching. But their
personal efforts are enhanced when groups of teachers work together to
improve their teaching and when the immediate and larger work environment
supports the efforts of the teachers.

Therefore, the NCBTS shall ensure that all the stakeholders in the teachers
work environment (i.e., the principal/school head, supervisors,
superintendents, community, parents, etc.) would marshal all their efforts to
support the improvement of the teachers practices to be in better alignment
with the NCBTS.
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How Does the NCBTS Define Good Teaching?

The competency-based teacher standards are organized hierarchically. The
basic level categories of the standards are seven domains. A domain is
defined as a distinctive sphere of the teaching-learning process, and is also a
well-defined arena for demonstrating positive teacher practices. Each domain
is defined in terms of a principle of ideal teaching
associated with enhanced student learning.

Under each domain, there are strands. Strands

refer to more specific dimensions of positive teacher
practices under the broad conceptual domain.

At the lowest level of the hierarchical organization,

under the strands, specific indicators are defined. These indicators are
concrete, observable, and measurable teacher behaviors, actions, habits,
actions, routines, and practices known to create, facilitate, and support
enhanced student learning.

The domains, strands, and indicators may be characterized in terms of the

following dimensions:

Nature/quality: This dimension refers to question, How well are the

essential qualities or critical features demonstrated/observed in the
positive teacher practices?
Frequency, consistency and appropriateness: This dimension refers to
the questions, How often is the ideal teaching practice
demonstrated?, Is the demonstration appropriate to the particular
teacher-learning process?, and Is the teacher consistent in
demonstrating this ideal?
Self-awareness: This dimension refers to the question, Is the teacher
aware or mindful of the premises, rationale, nature, and effects of the
demonstrated teacher-learning process?
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What Are These Seven Domains?

The seven domains are:

(1) social regard for learning

(2) learning environment
(3) diversity of learners
(4) curriculum
(5) planning, assessing, and reporting
(6) community linkages
(7) personal growth and development

Each domain will be defined in greater detail in the later parts of this guide.
But it is important to know that the seven domains are closely connected to
each other in very meaningful ways, and that the seven domains is best
understood a constituting an integrated whole as shown in the figure below.

To understand how the seven domains comprise an integrated whole, it would

help to see the seven domains as falling under two broad categories. The
middle domains 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 [the shaded areas] represent standards
referring to The Teacher as Facilitator of Learning, whereas the two outer
domains 1 and 7 [the unshaded areas] represent standards referring to The
Teacher as Learner.

The middle domains can further be divided into two sub-categories. The
innermost domains 3, 4, and 5 [the darker shaded areas] represent the specific
teacher practices related to the technical aspects of the teaching-learning
processes, whereas the other domains 2 and 6 [the lighter shaded areas]
represent the specific teacher practices that embed the learning process in
appropriate contexts.
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DOMAIN 1: SOCIAL REGARD FOR

LEARNING

DOMAIN 2: THE LEARNING

ENVIRONMENT

DOMAIN 3: THE DIVERSITY OF

LEARNERS

DOMAIN 4: CURRICULUM

DOMAIN 5: PLANNING, ASSESSING

& REPORTING

DOMAIN 6: COMMUNITY LINKAGES

DOMAIN 7: PERSONAL GROWTH &

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

We can discuss the integration of the seven domains from the inside going out.
At the center of the series of domains [the dark shaded areas] are the technical
aspects of the teaching-learning process. The domains of The Diversity of
Learners (3), Curriculum (4), and Planning, Assessing, and Reporting (5) refer to
what may be called good teaching strategies, and are very closely related to
each other. These domains express the new paradigm on teaching shown in
Table 1.
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Table 1 also explains the links between the next to outer domains [the light
shaded areas]: The Learning Environment (2) and Community Linkages (6). The
two domains refer to the teaching practices that attempt to situate or at least
link the teaching-learning process to appropriate contexts: the immediate
physical, psychological and the social context of the classroom, and the larger
socio-cultural, economic, political, and historical context of the community. In
other words, Domains 2 and 6 provide the context for Domains 3, 4, and 5.
Domains 2 and 6 can either constrain or expand the options for Domains 3, 4,
and 5.

Together, Domains 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 represent the full range of teacher

practices that relate to effectively facilitating learning.

On the other hand, the two outermost domains [the unshaded areas] represent
the important teacher practices that relate to the teacher as learner. Domain
1 represents the ideal that the teacher serves as a model of all the positive
values associated with learning, and Domain 7 represents the behaviors that
demonstrate the teachers actual aspirations to continue learning as a
professional teacher. These two domains
are not distinct and separate from those
five domains related to facilitating
learning. Instead, the teachers personal
demonstration of the values and activities
of learning make the teachers more
credible and effective facilitators of
learning in students. Indeed, Domains 1
and 7 can be the domains that fuel and
drive teacher development in the other
five domains.

IN THE NEXT SECTIONS, THE SEVEN DOMAINS AND THEIR UNDERLYING

STRANDS ARE PRESENTED AS A GUIDE FOR TEACHERS PERSONAL
REFLECTION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING.
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Domain 1:

Social Regard for Learning

The domain of Social Regard for

Learning focuses on the ideal that
teachers serve as positive and
powerful role models of the values of
the pursuit of learning and of the
effort to learn, and that the teachers
actions, statements, and different
types of social interactions with
students exemplify this ideal.
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Strand 1.1: Acts as a positive role model for students

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the Teacher:
Teacher: Can my students see and appreciate the
value of pursuing learning by looking at my
Can my students appreciate and various actions and statements in the
model the value of learning classroom?
through my interactions with
them?
Can my students see and appreciate the
value of exerting effort to learning by
looking at my various actions and
statements in the classroom?

Do I demonstrate and exemplify the values

of learning and efforts in the various actions
and statements I make in front of my
students?

My students always see my actions

and statements that show the
Developmental Continuum of
importance of learning and exerting
Practice: effort to learn.

My students sometimes see my actions and

statements that show the value of learning
and exerting effort to learn.

My students see actions & statements from

me that indicate that learning & exerting
effort to learn are not important.
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Domain 2:

Learning Environment

The domain of Learning Environment

focuses on the importance of providing
for a social and physical environment
within which all students, regardless of
their individual differences in learning,
can engage the different learning
activities and work towards attaining
high standards of learning.
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Strand 2.1: Creates an environment that promotes fairness

Specific Questions for the Teacher:

Key Question for the
Do all my students feel respected in my class,
Teacher: regardless of their gender, ability, religion,
socio-economic background, ethnicity, and
Do I create a social environment other physical and social characteristics?
in my class where my students feel
Do I make all my students feel that their
that they are treated fairly?
individual strengths and resources are
recognized and appreciated in class?

Do all my students feel like they have as good

a chance to learn and to achieve in my class as
their other classmates?

Do I create a social climate and organization

in the classroom where all my students can
effectively engage the learning activities,
regardless of their diverse capacities and
resources as individual learners?

All my students always feel

respected and appreciated in class,
and that they all have an equal
Developmental Continuum of
opportunity to learn and to achieve.
Practice:

Some of my students feel respected and

appreciated in class; some feel they have
good opportunities to learn and to achieve.

My students never feel respected and

appreciated in class; most feel they are not
given equal chances to learn and to achieve.
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Strand 2.2: Makes the physical environment safe and conducive to

learning

Key Question for the Specific Questions for the

Teacher: Teacher:
Is the physical environment in my
Do I create a physical
classroom safe under the general conditions
environment in my class where my of our school?
students feel that they are safe
and able to learn?
Is the physical environment in my
classroom conducive to learning under the
general conditions of our school?

Are there ways of improving the physical

environment in my classroom that are
within my means as a teacher?

All my students always find my

Developmental Continuum of classroom safe and conducive for
the different learning activities we
Practice: have in class.

A few my students often find my classroom

safe and conducive for the different
learning activities we have in class.

Most of my students never find my classroom

safe or conducive for the different learning
activities we have in class.
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Strand 2.3: Communicates higher learning expectations to each learner

Specific Questions for the

Teacher:
Key Question for the
Teacher: Do my students feel and understand that I
want them all to attain high levels of
Do I create a classroom learning?
atmosphere that encourages
students to attain high levels of
learning and achievement? Do I encourage the students in my class to
pursue their own learning goals and
aspirations?

Do I provide diverse opportunities for the

different students in my class to nurture
their desire and aspirations for high levels
of learning?

All my students are always

motivated and given the chance to
aspire and work for high levels of
Developmental Continuum of
learning in class.
Practice:

A few of my students are often motivated

and given the chance to aspire and work for
high levels of learning in class.

Most my students are never motivated or

given the chance to aspire and work for even
moderate levels of learning in class.
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Strand 2.4: Establishes and maintains consistent standards of

learners behavior

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the
Teacher:
Teacher:
Do I respond to learning and behavior
Do I create a consistent and problems quickly, appropriately,
orderly social climate and respectfully, and consistently?
organization in the classroom for
my students?
Do I provide all my students with timely,
appropriate, and consistent feedback on
their learning behaviors?

Do I clearly communicate and consistently

observe school and classroom policies on
appropriate classroom behaviors?

My students see my how highly

consistent I am in responding to
Developmental Continuum of their appropriate and inappropriate
Practice: behaviors in class.

My students see my how Im somewhat

inconsistent I am in responding to their
appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in

My students see my how very inconsistent I

am in responding to their appropriate and
inappropriate behaviors in class.
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Domain 3:

Diversity of Learners

The domain of Diversity of Learners

emphasizes the ideal that teachers can
facilitate the learning process in
diverse types of learners, by first
recognizing and respecting individual
differences, then using knowledge
about students differences to design
diverse sets of learning activities to
ensure that all students can attain
appropriate learning goals.
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Strand 3.1: Is familiar with learners background knowledge and

experiences

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the
Teacher:
Teacher:
Can my students see that I recognize,
Can I help my students learn accept, and respect the differences in their
whatever their capabilities, backgrounds and capabilities?
learning styles, cultural heritage,
socio-economic backgrounds, and Am I familiar with the different backgrounds,
other differences are? experiences, and capacities of my students?

Do I consider the differences in

backgrounds, experiences, and capacities of
my students in designing different learning
activities for them?

Do I set diverse, appropriate, and

challenging learning goals for different
students, in consideration of their
differences in backgrounds and
capabilities?

Developmental Continuum of I create different learning activities to allow

Practice: students with different capabilities and
backgrounds to attain the learning standards.

I recognize & respect the differences in my students

backgrounds & capabilities, but do not create different
learning activities for them.

I do not pay attention to differences in my students

backgrounds & capabilities, & give them all the same learning
activities.
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Strand 3.2: Demonstrates concern for holistic development of

learners

Key Question for the Specific Questions for the

Teacher:
Teacher:
Do I set clear, challenging, but achievable
learning goals for all students in my class,
Do my students feel that I am
regardless of their individual differences?
trying to help them learn, whatever
their capabilities, learning styles,
Do I create diverse types of learning
cultural heritage, socio-economic activities that would help all my students
backgrounds, and other develop in all aspects of the curriculum?
differences are?

Am I sensitive to how individual students

respond differently to the different learning
activities in my class?

I create different learning activities to allow

all my diverse students to grow and develop
in many different aspects.

Developmental Continuum of
Practice:

I create different learning activities to allow some

of my diverse students to grow and develop in many
different aspects.

I do not create different learning activities that would

allow my diverse students to grow and develop in many
different aspects.
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Domain 4:

Curriculum

The domain of Curriculum refers to all

elements of the teaching-learning
process that work in convergence to
help students attain high standards of
learning and understanding of the
curricular goals and objectives. These
elements include the teachers
knowledge of subject matter, teaching-
learning approaches and activities,
instructional materials and learning
resources.
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Strand 4.1: Demonstrates mastery of the subject

Specific Questions for the

Teacher:
Key Question for the
Can I clearly and accurately explain the
Teacher: goals, procedures, and content involved in
the lessons?
Do my students see how well I
understand the subject matter I Can I clearly and meaningfully show the
am teaching, enough that they relationships between the different lessons
understand and appreciate the in the subject?
importance of the lessons? Can I design learning activities and
assessment procedures that are truly
aligned with the important objectives of the
lessons?

Can I present the subject matter in

meaningful and relevant ways that engage
the students interest and motivation to
learn?

Can I encourage my students to engage in

higher order thinking in my class and interact
with them appropriately?

Developmental Continuum of
My subject matter knowledge is deep enough to
Practice: allow me to design lessons that motivate my
students and engage them in higher order
thinking.

My subject matter knowledge is adequate to allow me to

design some lessons that sometimes motivate my
students to learn.

My subject matter knowledge is so that I am unable to

design lessons that motivate my students to learn.
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Strand 4.2: Communicates clear learning goals for the lessons

that are appropriate for learners

Key Question for the Specific Questions for the

Teacher: Teacher:
Am I clear about what my learning goals
Can my students see and are for my different students?
appreciate the value of the
curricular goals and objectives I
have set for the different lessons Do my students understand the learning
in my class? goals that I have set for them?

Do the students adopt the learning goals I

have set for the lesson as their own goals in
my class?

My students always understand the learning

Developmental Continuum of goals I have set for them for all lessons we
have.
Practice:

My students sometimes understand the learning

goals I have set for them for most lessons we have.

My students never understand the learning goals I

have set for them for any lessons we have.
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Strand 4.3: Makes good use of allotted instructional time

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the Teacher:
Teacher: Do I design lessons that would allow
various learning objectives to be addressed
Am I able to help my students in an efficient and meaningful fashion?
attain all the curricular goals
within the time provided in the
school calendar? Do I establish routines and procedures to
allow my students to engage the different
learning activities efficiently?

Do I plan lessons in ways that consider the

amount of time students need to effectively
attain the learning goals of the lessons?

Developmental Continuum of I always plan for efficient learning

activities that allow my students need to
Practice: attain high learning goals.

I sometime plan for learning activities that do

not give my students enough time to attain high
learning goals.

I am unable to plan and control the time of the

learning activities, so my students never attain
the learning goals.
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Strand 4.4: Selects teaching methods, learning activities and

instructional materials or resources appropriate to learners and
aligned to the objectives of the lesson

Key Question for the Specific Questions for the

Teacher: Teacher:
Do I plan for and implement a variety of
Do I use teaching-learning activities appropriate teaching-learning activities to
and learning resources efficiently to help my diverse students attain the
challenge my students to meet high curricular goals?
levels of mastery and understanding
of curricular objectives? Do I plan for and use varied instructional
materials and learning resources to help my
diverse students attain the objectives of the
lessons?

Am I able to align the activities and

available learning resources with my
students learning styles, goals, and other
differences?

Developmental Continuum of I am always able to align the learning

Practice: activities with learning objectives and the
learning styles of all my students.

I am sometimes able to align the learning activities

with learning objectives and the learning styles of
most my students.

I am never able to align the learning activities with

learning objectives and the learning styles of any my
students.
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Domain 5:

Planning, Assessing and Reporting

The domain of Planning, Assessing and

Reporting refers to the aligned use of
assessment and planning activities to
ensure that the teaching-learning
activities are maximally appropriate to the
students current knowledge and learning
levels. In particular, the domain focuses
on the use of assessment data to plan
and revise teaching-learning plans, as
well as the integration of formative
assessment procedures in the plan and
implementation of teaching-learning
activities.
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Strand 5.1: Communicates promptly and clearly to learners,

parents, and superiors about the progress of learners.

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the Teacher:
Teacher: Do my students know about their own
progress and attainment of the learning
Do I provide my stakeholders goals in my class?
(learners, parents and superiors)
timely and accurate information Do the parents of my students get regular
about my students learning and accurate feedback on their childrens
progress in my class?
progress?
Do my superiors in school know about the
general progress of the students in my class
in relation to the curriculum goals?

I provide regular and accurate feedback

Developmental Continuum of to all my students about their learning
attainment in class.
Practice:

I provide occasional and accurate feedback for

most of my students about their learning
attainment in class.

I provide minimal feedback for my students

about their learning attainment in class.
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Strand 5.2: Develops and uses a variety of appropriate assessment

strategies to monitor and evaluate learning.

Key Question for the Specific Questions for the

Teacher: Teacher:
Do I use effective and appropriate
Do I assess my students learning and educational assessment procedures to
knowledge using appropriate determine whether my students are learning
educational assessment procedures, during the different parts of the teaching-
and use the information from these learning activities?
assessment procedures in planning my
Do I use a variety of educational
teaching-learning activities for the
assessment procedures to determine
students?
whether my students are learning?

Do I use the results of the various

educational assessment procedures to guide
how I plan, implement, and revise the
teaching-learning activities I prepare for my
students?

I always use results of varied assessment

Developmental Continuum of
procedures in planning and implementing
Practice: teaching-learning activities for my students.

I sometimes use results of some assessment

procedures in planning and implementing teaching-
learning activities for my students.

I never use assessment results in planning and

implementing teaching-learning activities for my
students.
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Strand 5.3: Monitors regularly and provides feedback on learners

understanding of content

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the
Teacher:
Teacher:
Do I have regular assessment procedures to
Do I provide regular feedback to track each students level of learning?
each student about their level of
learning?
Do I keep accurate records of each
students progress and level of learning?

Do I provide appropriate and timely

feedback for students to help them monitor
their own learning?

I provide regular and appropriate

feedback to help all my students monitor
Developmental Continuum of their own learning progress.
Practice:

I provide occasional but appropriate feedback

to help some of my students monitor their own
learning progress.

I never provide appropriate feedback that

would help my students monitor their own
learning progress.
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Domain 6:

Community Linkages

The domain of Community Linkages

focuses on the ideal that school
activities are meaningfully linked to the
experiences and aspirations of the
students in their homes and
communities. Thus the domain
focuses on teachers efforts directed at
strengthening the links between school
and community activities, particularly
as these links help in the attainment of
the curricular objectives.
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Strand 6.1: Establishes learning environments that respond to the

aspirations of the community

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the Teacher:
Teacher:
Can my students see how the goals and
Are the goals and characteristics activities in school relate to the values and
of the teaching-learning activities I aspirations in their homes and communities?
implement relevant to the
experiences, values and aspirations
in my students communities?
Do I draw from resources, ideas, and activities
from my students communities in my teaching-
learning activities?

Do I try to involve members of the community

in supporting the learning goals of my classes?

All my students perceive that all of the class activities

Developmental Continuum of are relevant to their activities & aspirations at home &
Practice: in the community.

Some of my students perceive that most of the class

activities are relevant to their activities & aspirations at
home & in the community.

All my students perceive that the class activities are

irrelevant to their activities & aspirations at home & in
the community.
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Domain 7:

Personal Growth and Professional

Development

The domain of Personal Growth and

Professional Development emphasizes
the ideal that teachers value having a
high personal regard, concern for
professional development, and
continuous improvement as teachers.
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Strand 7.1: Takes pride in the nobility of teaching as a profession.

Specific Questions for the

Teacher:
Key Question for the
Teacher:
Can my colleagues see in my actions and
Do my actions and statements statements how I value my profession as a
indicate a high regard for the teacher?
teaching profession and for my
continuous development as a
professional teacher? Do I take systematic steps to ensure that I
continuously improve myself as a
professional teacher?

Am I enthusiastic about my responsibilities

as a teacher?

I regularly allocate time for activities to help me

Developmental Continuum of improve my knowledge and skills as a teacher.

Practice:

I sometimes allocate time for activities to help me

improve my knowledge and skills as a teacher.

I never allocate time for activities to help me improve

my knowledge and skills as a teacher.
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Strand 7.2: Builds professional links with colleagues to enrich

teaching practice

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the Teacher:
Teacher: Do I engage other teachers in my school in
discussions to improve our teaching
Do I try to learn from other practices?
colleagues in the teaching
profession to improve my teaching
practice? Do I participate in some professional
teacher organizations that aim to improve
teaching practice?

Can I say that I am well-informed about

recent developments in education?

Developmental Continuum of I regularly interact with my fellow

Practice: teachers to discuss ways to keep
improving our teaching practice.

I sometimes interact with my fellow

teachers to discuss ways to keep
improving our teaching practice.

I never interact with my fellow teachers

to discuss ways to keep improving our
teaching practice.
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Strand 7.3: Reflects on the extent of the attainment of

learning goals

Specific Questions for the

Key Question for the
Teacher:
Teacher:
Do I recognize the strong and weak aspects
Am I aware of the extent to which of my teaching that may or may not help my
my practices as a teacher students learning?
influence my students attainment
of the learning goals?
Do I feel responsible for the level of
learning and achievement of my students?

Do I try to improve my teaching so that my

students can learn more?

I always feel responsible for the

Developmental Continuum of effects of my teaching practice on
Practice: my students level of learning.

I sometimes feel responsible for the

effects of my teaching practice on my
students level of learning.

I never feel responsible for my students

level of learning; their learning is not
affected by my teaching practices.

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