FELE Subtest 1: Leadership for Student Learning
C1- Standard Based Instruction - ✔✔Drives most decision in public schools
C1- Walkthroughs/ Standards - ✔✔Use walkthroughs to identify standards alignments by looking at
objectives in lesson plans and observing teachers and students in the classroom
C1- Standards alignment can be seen in: - ✔✔- lesson plans
- lesson objectives
- communication between teachers and students
- instruction
- textbook and curriculum
C1- Monitoring Student Performance - ✔✔What are the trends of the data? Are scores increasing,
decreasing, or staying the same?
C1- Vertical Alignment - ✔✔Every skill leads to the next skill and the next skill.
C1- Vertical Alignment Responsibility - ✔✔It is the responsibility of the educational leader to evaluate if
vertical alignment is being adhered to in the classroom.
C1- Measure Vertical Alignment - ✔✔- reviewing lesson plans
- determining if lessons plans are aligned with academic plans
- observing classroom instruction with curriculum map and content focus in mind
C1- Horizontal Alignment - ✔✔Alignment between and among content areas (cross content)
, C1- Promote Horizontal Alignment - ✔✔- providing time & resources for teachers to plan lessons
together
- encourage teachers to attend PD that supports HA
- using progressive monitoring for continuous improvment
C1- Walkthroughs, Rigor, Critical Thinking, Engagement - ✔✔Effective leaders know how to identify
rigor, relevance, critical thinking, and engagement in the classroom.
C1- Critical Thinking - ✔✔Stretching beyond basic recall, analyze, evaluate, interpret, and synthesize
information to reach conclusion- multi-step, high-level thinking
C1- Creative Thinking - ✔✔Think outside the box to draw unique conclusions
C1- Reflective Thinking - ✔✔Reflect about learning process to promote abstract thinking
C1- Spot Higher Order Activities - ✔✔- Objectives: contain words like apply, evaluate, synthesize,
analyze, or create
- Questions: teachers asking HO questions? Let students off the hook? Push them to explore?
- Activities: Students engaged or compliant?
C1- Higher-Order Thinking - ✔✔Critical thinking- students given the opportunity to approach learning
critically and engage in rigorous lessons and thinking critically about concepts that relate to the world.
C1- Engagement vs Compliance - ✔✔Must be able to identify the difference between engagement and
compliance.
- Engagement: students are actively working together in cooperative learning structures.
- Compliance: Students are sitting quietly and following directions but not necessarily actively engaged.
C1- Standard Based Instruction - ✔✔Drives most decision in public schools
C1- Walkthroughs/ Standards - ✔✔Use walkthroughs to identify standards alignments by looking at
objectives in lesson plans and observing teachers and students in the classroom
C1- Standards alignment can be seen in: - ✔✔- lesson plans
- lesson objectives
- communication between teachers and students
- instruction
- textbook and curriculum
C1- Monitoring Student Performance - ✔✔What are the trends of the data? Are scores increasing,
decreasing, or staying the same?
C1- Vertical Alignment - ✔✔Every skill leads to the next skill and the next skill.
C1- Vertical Alignment Responsibility - ✔✔It is the responsibility of the educational leader to evaluate if
vertical alignment is being adhered to in the classroom.
C1- Measure Vertical Alignment - ✔✔- reviewing lesson plans
- determining if lessons plans are aligned with academic plans
- observing classroom instruction with curriculum map and content focus in mind
C1- Horizontal Alignment - ✔✔Alignment between and among content areas (cross content)
, C1- Promote Horizontal Alignment - ✔✔- providing time & resources for teachers to plan lessons
together
- encourage teachers to attend PD that supports HA
- using progressive monitoring for continuous improvment
C1- Walkthroughs, Rigor, Critical Thinking, Engagement - ✔✔Effective leaders know how to identify
rigor, relevance, critical thinking, and engagement in the classroom.
C1- Critical Thinking - ✔✔Stretching beyond basic recall, analyze, evaluate, interpret, and synthesize
information to reach conclusion- multi-step, high-level thinking
C1- Creative Thinking - ✔✔Think outside the box to draw unique conclusions
C1- Reflective Thinking - ✔✔Reflect about learning process to promote abstract thinking
C1- Spot Higher Order Activities - ✔✔- Objectives: contain words like apply, evaluate, synthesize,
analyze, or create
- Questions: teachers asking HO questions? Let students off the hook? Push them to explore?
- Activities: Students engaged or compliant?
C1- Higher-Order Thinking - ✔✔Critical thinking- students given the opportunity to approach learning
critically and engage in rigorous lessons and thinking critically about concepts that relate to the world.
C1- Engagement vs Compliance - ✔✔Must be able to identify the difference between engagement and
compliance.
- Engagement: students are actively working together in cooperative learning structures.
- Compliance: Students are sitting quietly and following directions but not necessarily actively engaged.
