Enhancing Professional Practice: The Framework for Teaching

One critical way to support teachers as they navigate and orchestrate their daily work with students is to provide them with a complete description of what effective teaching is, what it involves, and a roadmap for navigating their professional growth and development. That is exactly what the Framework for Teaching was developed to do.

The Framework first appeared in the book Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (Danielson, 1996) and was an outgrowth of the research compiled by Educational Testing Service (ETS) for the development of Praxis III: Classroom Performance Assessments, an observation-based evaluation of first-year teachers used for the purpose of l

the Framework has been extensively studied and validated as an accurate measure of the connection between teacher performance and student

Human resource work involves understanding and facilitating the dynamics among individuals within a larger group, such as senior leaders, supervisors, and administrative assistants,

previously emphasized the role of teachers as curriculum designers, often responsible for planning lessons from scratch. When high-quality curricula are in use, however, teachers might be better described as curriculum adapters. We should not expect or assume that teachers plan lessons from scratch; however, we know teachers must do more than follo

In business, executives and managers set goals for their teams and lead them toward accomplishing these goals. They work with their teams to allocate time and other scarce resources as well as balance task-related and social-emotional considerations. They may review the performance of their reports and provide feedback. Similarly, teachers motivate

the number of education-focused frameworks developed over the past few decades reflects the complexity of educators' work and the need to define it clearly.

this third edition of Enhancing Professional Practice was released online in 2022.