ScienceSubject Specific Pedagogical Skills Form
Assessment Key:

AP = Advanced Proficient: The credential candidate has exceeded expectations by using an innovative approach to effectively address the subject-
specific pedagogical skill.
P = Proficient: The credential candidate has demonstrated the ability to effectively address the subject-specific pedagogical skill at the level of a
professional teacher.
E = Emerging: The credential candidate has demonstrated the ability to begin to effectively address the subject-specific pedagogical skill and is
progressing towards attaining proficiency.
N = Needs Improvement: The credential candidate has attempted to address the subject-specific pedagogical skill and needs improvement in order to
begin to effectively address the skill.
UJ = Unable to judge.
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Credential Candidate's Name
Cooperating Teacher's Name
Name of School Site
Date of Assessment
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The credential candidate demonstrates the ability to teach the state-adopted academic content standards for students in science and applicable English Language Development Standards.
Clear selection
The credential candidate balances the focus of instruction between disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and scientific and engineering practices as indicated in the Next Generation Science Standards.
Clear selection
The credential candidate’s explanations, demonstrations, and class activities serve to illustrate science concepts and principles, scientific investigation, and experimentation.
Clear selection
The credential candidate emphasizes the nature of science, the integration of engineering design, and the connections between science, society, technology, and the environment.
Clear selection
The credential candidate integrates mathematical concepts and practices including the importance of accuracy, precision, and estimation of data and literacy into science pedagogy.
Clear selection
The credential candidate provides students with the opportunity to use and evaluate strengths and limitations of media and technology as integral tools in the classroom.
Clear selection
The credential candidate encourages students to pursue science and engineering interests, especially students from groups underrepresented in science and engineering careers.
Clear selection
The credential candidate teaches students to provide ethical care when live animals are present in the classroom.
Clear selection
The credential candidate demonstrates sensitivity to students' cultural and ethnic backgrounds in designing science instruction.
Clear selection
The credential candidate teaches students to engage in disciplinary discourse practices that foster evidence-based explanations and argumentations to write opinion/persuasive and expository text in the content area.
Clear selection
The credential candidate teaches students to independently read, comprehend, and evaluate instructional materials that include increasingly complex subject-relevant texts and graphic/media representations presented in diverse formats.
Clear selection
The credential candidate assures that students at various English proficiency levels have the academic language needed to meaningfully engage in the content.
Clear selection
The credential candidate guides, monitors, and encourages students during investigations and experiments.
Clear selection
The credential candidate demonstrates and encourages the use of multiple ways to measure and record scientific data, including the use of mathematical symbols.
Clear selection
The credential candidate structures and sequences science instruction to enhance students' academic knowledge to meet or exceed the state-adopted academic content standards for students.
Clear selection
The credential candidate establishes and monitors procedures for the care, safe use, and storage of equipment and materials and for the disposal of potentially hazardous materials.
Clear selection
This was completed by the student teacher and the cooperating teacher.
Clear selection
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