Assignment Instructions/ Description
Related Standards and Competencies: Florida Principal Leadership Standards 1-10; Florida Educational Leadership Examination
Leadership for student learning FELE competency 1: �Knowledge of effective prioritization of student learning through leadership actions that build and support a learning organization focused on student success and continuous improvement.�
Drawing on course materials and professional experiences, explain why it is important for a school to demonstrate the skills that comprise this competency (Approximately 100 words):
Identify and select appropriate strategies that assure faculty and staff will work as a learning organization focused on continuous improvement of student learning.
Analyze and determine appropriate strategies that enhance a school�s climate and support student engagement in learning.
Evaluate and apply effective strategies that create high expectations for student gains.
Identify and discriminate among effective strategies that engage faculty and staff in order to improve academic performance and close achievement gaps among student subgroups.
Drawing on your observations (formal and informal) and attentive to the relevant literature, describe and analyze examples of the standards listed above and its comprising skills (positive or negative examples) in use among practicing school leaders. (Approximately 300 words)
Drawing on course materials, professional experiences, and formal/informal observations, discuss how you plan to demonstrate this competency in your own professional practice as a school leader. (Approximately 200 words)
Rubric for guidance:
Rubric for Classroom-based Assessment for Activity # 3
FELE Competency and
Skill
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Target Competency 1-02:
Knowledge of effective prioritization of student learning through leadership actions that build and support a learning organization focused on student success and continuous improvement.
1-0201 Identify and select appropriate strategies that assure faculty and staff will work as a learning organization focused on continuous improvement of student learning.
Candidate demonstrates limited understanding of the skill and/or limited capacity to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates acceptable understanding of the skill and capacity
to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates clear and comprehensive understanding of the skill and exceptional capacity�
to apply it in a professional context.
1-0202 Analyze and determine appropriate strategies that enhance a school�s climate and support student engagement in learning.
Candidate demonstrates limited understanding of the skill and/or limited capacity to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates acceptable understanding of the skill and capacity
to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates clear and comprehensive understanding of the skill and exceptional capacity
to apply it in a professional context.1-0203 Evaluate and apply effective strategies that creates high expectations for student learning gains
Candidate demonstrates limited understanding of the skill and/or limited capacity to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates acceptable understanding of the skill and capacity
to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates clear and comprehensive understanding of the skill and exceptional capacity
to apply it in a professional context.1-0204 Identify and discriminate among effective strategies that engage faculty and staff in order to improve academic performance and close achievement gaps among subgroups.
Candidate demonstrates limited understanding of the skill and/or limited capacity to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates acceptable understanding of the skill and capacity to apply it in a professional context.
Candidate demonstrates clear and comprehensive understanding of the skill and exceptional capacity to apply it in a professional context.