jpas and otr

JPAS AND OTR

A Comparison

HOW CAN STUDENTS RESPOND?

Individually

Group

With peers

Orally

Signs

Written

Labs

Projects

Gel Boards

Cards

Chart Paper

Responders

Choral

Discussions

White Boards

Bell Ringers

Exit Cards

Essay Questions

Multiple-Choice

Literature Circles

Demonstrations

JPAS DOMAINS

Although there are 5 domains, only 3 are assessed during observation :

Domain 1: Managing the Classroom

The teacher efficiently manages student behavior, time and materials.

Domain 2: Delivering Instruction

The teacher effectively structures, presents, and conveys knowledge and

skills and monitors student acquisition of the knowledge and skills.

Domain 3: Interacting with students.

JPASDOMAIN 1

Domain 1: Managing the Classroom

The teacher efficiently manages student

behavior, time and materials.

4 indicators are linked to opportunities to respond.

JPAS INDICATORS?DOMAIN 1

#1 Students off-task (Sweep every 10 minutes – if

students are responding they are on task)

#5 Adjust instruction (Use student responses to

determine if instruction needs to be adjusted)

#11 Uses management routines (Possibility to use

hand signals, etc. to have students respond)


#13 Minutes of nonacademic time (If students are

responding throughout the entire class time, the

potential to have nonacademic time is eliminated)

JPAS DOMAIN 2

Domain 2: Delivering Instruction

The teacher effectively structures, presents,

and conveys knowledge and skills and monitors

student acquisition of the knowledge and skills.

16 indicators relate to opportunities to respond.


#14 Factual questions (Responses to factual questions are opportunities to

respond)

#16 Demonstrates skills/procedures (Teacher shows the students how to do

something. When the student does it, that is an opportunity to respond.)

#19 Reviews (Questions used during a review are opportunities to respond.

#20 Pre-assessment (Many of the activities used during a pre-assessment are

opportunities to respond, e.g., questions, demonstrations)


#22 Teaching/learning strategies (Most of strategies provide

students opportunities to respond.)

#27 Higher-order questions (Each of these questions is an

opportunity to respond)

#29 Sustains interactions (When teachers sustain interactions

with a students, they are providing those students with an

additional opportunity to respond.)


#30 Task-oriented peer interaction (When students respond

to each other or the teacher in small groups, they have

opportunities to respond.)

#31 Problem Solving, #32 Cause-effect analysis, #33

Application activity, #34 Brainstorming (All of these

activities provide opportunities for students to respond.)


#35 Prepares students for activities (When teachers

question students to ensure they are prepared for the

activity, the students have opportunities to respond.)

#36 Supervises independent practice (Students should be

responding in some fashion as they do their

independent practice.)


#37 Correctives (The teacher is correcting the

responses the students made.)

#38 Monitors student performance (The teacher is

monitoring the responses the students are making.)

JPAS DOMAIN 3

Domain 3: Interacting with students.

10 indicators relate to opportunities to respond.


#39 Student participation (This is big one! The person doing

the JPAS evaluation tallies each new student who

participates.)

#40 Academic feedback (The teacher responds to student

responses.)

#42 Encourages reluctant students (If students are not

responding, the teacher encourages them to participate.)


#43 Reinforces desired behavior (If the reinforcement is

connected to student responses, this indicator relates to


#44 Acknowledges learning efforts (The teacher is acknowledging

the connection between responses and learning.)

#45 Student demonstrations of knowledge or skills (These are



#46 Practices communication skills (Depends on the type of response—if

it is restating an idea in the lesson, it is an opportunity to respond.)

#47 Guided practice (This provides multiple opportunities to respond.)

#48 Checks for understanding (These are opportunities to respond.)

#49 Learning environment (This indicator assesses the total interactions

between teacher and student.)

SUMMARY

Of the 49 indicators assessed

during each classroom observation,

30 or 61% are related to

opportunities to respond.

jpas and otr

Documents

students opportunities

jpas indicators

reluctant students

student responses

independent practice

student behavior

teachers question students

multiple opportunities