Fine Arts Educator Coaching Clinics
Educator Goals Questionnaire
These questions will help you identify places of strength and growth within your teaching practice. Simply answer "Yes" or "No". Not all questions will apply 100% of the time.
If it is a "Maybe", consider if you would like to explore that path more.
After you complete the Questionnaire, check the "Question Categories" section below to see how questions align with the domains.
Questions
Is your classroom cluttered or disorderly?
Do your students actively discuss the concepts of your fine art content in class using appropriate academic language?
Do you plan each lesson to have a specific, obtainable objective?
Does each part of the class flow seamlessly to each activity with students knowing visual or audio cues of when to refocus on the teacher?
Do you and your students feel safe to make mistakes without fearing ridicule?
Do you have a curriculum planned out, either from previous experience or provided guidance?
Do you use student mastery data to plan for following lessons, reteach opportunities, or choose skill level appropriate material for class?
Do your students actively evaluate themselves and use that critique to form personal goals?
Do you redirect and adjust the lesson based on “in the moment” observations and assessment?
Do you actively seek opportunities to give positive praise for students complying with expectations and directions (not always content-based)?
Do your students enter/exit class with how you imagined in your expectations? (Is it as close to ideal as possible)
Do you enforce a classroom management plan consistently among all students?
Do you set goals of what students should accomplish and know after they have completed your course?
Can most (over 70%) of your students not only demonstrate a skill, but also explain the concepts about that skill?
Do you use multiple instructional strategies when teaching a new concept or skill?
Do you follow an agenda to minimize off-topics or "chasing squirrels"?
Does your classroom contain anchor charts, a word wall, posters, and other content specific visuals?
Do you prepare materials for classes in advance (more than 1-2 days)?
Do you notate the number of students that master the lesson objective for that day?
Do you struggle with how to teach diverse groups in your class? (this could be learning styles, varying skill levels, multilingual, SPED, etc.)
Do all your students know what they need to do in order to be successful (such as write out or explain all that is needed)?
Question Categories (click the arrow to see how the questions fall in the domains)
Routines and Procedures: 4, 11, and 16
Learning Environment: 1, 5, 10, 12, and 17
Content Knowledge/Lesson Planning: 3, 6, 15, 18, and 20
Assessing Students and Data: 7, 9, 13, and 19
Student-Centered Learning: 2, 8, 14, and 21
There is no score, nothing to add up. This is not an evaluation. It is just to get an idea of where you are and where you want to be in your professional teaching journey.
See a domain of questions that you would like to improve your response? I bet we have an episode or blog about it!
Your story of success may look very different from these questions. This is not the one and only path, just one of many. To learn more, be sure to visit the Blogs and Resources page.