Teacher Self-Evaluation Rubric
Flamboyant Foundation: Classroom Family Engagement Rubric
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Flamboyant Foundation, a private, family foundation invested to improve the quality of public education, reviewed research and identified examples of teachers who do a wonderful job at engaging and families in their students' learning.
From this work, the foundation created a classroom rubric, the Classroom Family Engagement Rubric, "that breaks family engagement into three pieces:"
1. "Teacher beliefs and mindsets,"
2. "Relationships and communication,"
3. "Investing families in student goals and helping them monitor progress
and support learning."
Overall, the rubric provides a guide for teachers "to reflect on what they do well and what they need to improve upon, and seek the appropriate support and training" in order to increase family engagement.
Teacher Beliefs and Mindsets
The perceptions that teachers' tend to have about families shape their involvement and engagement efforts with different families. Within the rubric, the first set of objectives focus on the beliefs that teachers may have regarding different families and the role that teachers should hold when facilitating family engagement.
Relationships and Communication
As it states in Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality: Positive Outcomes Through Partnerships and Trust, Ann and Rud Turnball state that when trying to engage families in their students' learning, teachers first need trusting, mutually respectful relationships with families. The rubric contains a second set of objectives that focus on creating this type of relationship and open communication.
Investing Families in Student Goals and Help
The last set of objectives that are found on this rubric allows teachers to foster parent involvement in ways such as having high expectations for their student, discussing goals for the future with their student, and holding their student accountable. A teacher can enable families to complete such things at home by working with families to set ambitious goals and monitor student progress toward those goals.
From this work, the foundation created a classroom rubric, the Classroom Family Engagement Rubric, "that breaks family engagement into three pieces:"
1. "Teacher beliefs and mindsets,"
2. "Relationships and communication,"
3. "Investing families in student goals and helping them monitor progress
and support learning."
Overall, the rubric provides a guide for teachers "to reflect on what they do well and what they need to improve upon, and seek the appropriate support and training" in order to increase family engagement.
Teacher Beliefs and Mindsets
The perceptions that teachers' tend to have about families shape their involvement and engagement efforts with different families. Within the rubric, the first set of objectives focus on the beliefs that teachers may have regarding different families and the role that teachers should hold when facilitating family engagement.
Relationships and Communication
As it states in Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality: Positive Outcomes Through Partnerships and Trust, Ann and Rud Turnball state that when trying to engage families in their students' learning, teachers first need trusting, mutually respectful relationships with families. The rubric contains a second set of objectives that focus on creating this type of relationship and open communication.
Investing Families in Student Goals and Help
The last set of objectives that are found on this rubric allows teachers to foster parent involvement in ways such as having high expectations for their student, discussing goals for the future with their student, and holding their student accountable. A teacher can enable families to complete such things at home by working with families to set ambitious goals and monitor student progress toward those goals.
Information obtained from
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Harvard Family Research Project
Turnbull, et. all. (2006). Families, professionals, and exceptionality: positive outcomes through partnerships and trust.
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Harvard Family Research Project
Turnbull, et. all. (2006). Families, professionals, and exceptionality: positive outcomes through partnerships and trust.
