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1a. Fosters Personal Sharing
- Shares from own life
- Encourages student sharing (e.g., with artifacts or peers)
- Provides adequate wait time
- Affirms and acknowledges
- Asks follow-up questions
- Discusses differences as assets
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The teacher rarely shares from their own life OR provides opportunities for students to share. They do not affirm, acknowledge OR extend what is shared. |
Sometimes the teacher shares from their own life OR provides opportunities for students to share, but rarely affirms, acknowledges, OR extends what is shared. |
The teacher consistently shares OR provides opportunities for students to share. They affirm, acknowledge, AND extend what is shared. |
1b. Builds Background Knowledge
- Teaches skills, concepts, or vocabulary as needed
- Provides models for students’ activities
- Provides schemata (e.g., organizational frames)
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The teacher rarely provides background concepts, skills, vocabulary, OR relevant schemata. |
Teacher sometimes provides background concepts, skills, vocabulary, OR relevant schemata |
Teacher consistently provides background concepts, skills, AND relevant schemata to foster student participation |
1c. Integrates Everyday Experiences
- Makes or elaborates on incidental connections
- Connects to students’ prior content knowledge
- Connects to home, family, or community experiences
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The teacher does not integrate discussion themes with students’ everyday knowledge and experiences. |
Sometimes the teacher integrates discussion themes with students’ everyday knowledge and experiences. |
The teacher consistently integrates discussion themes with students’ everyday knowledge and experiences. |
1d. Examines Inequities
- Encourages students to share experiences with inequity (e.g., fairness, bias, justice, language marginalization)
- Acknowledges inequity-related emotions- Examines inequity effects
- Encourages standing up for justice
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The teacher does not provide opportunities for students to share experiences with OR examine issues of inequity. |
The teacher sometimes provides opportunities for students to share experiences with OR examine issues of inequity. |
The teacher regularly provides opportunities for students to share experiences with AND examine inequities. |
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1e. Share Personal Connections
- Share home, school & community experiences in response to teacher invitation
- Make connections to family or community relationships
- Spontaneously share experiences
- Share experiences with inequity (i.e., issues of fairness, bias, and justice, including language marginalization)
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Students do not connect classroom topics/ideas with their everyday classroom experiences. |
Sometimes students share their everyday experiences but rarely make connections between classroom topics/ideas and their daily experiences. |
Students often share their everyday experiences AND make integrated connections between classroom topics/ideas and their daily experiences. |