This is not an evaluation tool and should not be used this way.  The pre and post-reflections are written to support a collaborative learning approach between the teacher and observer. 

We recommend choosing one of the three look-for tools when observing a classroom. Select the tool that best reflects the type of lesson teachers focus on and the degree of criticality they take in their classrooms. 

• Tool 1. This tool is a good place to start if your teachers are just starting to engage in critical and cultural approaches to instruction. These discourse look-fors indicate the type of environment and teacher-student relationship that are important for engaging in critical and cultural approaches to AST.
• Tool 2. This tool is a good place to start if your teachers and students are engaging in sensemaking conversations, preparing to revise their initial models, and preparing to create their final models. These discourse look-fors indicate both the type of support and expansive interpretation of scientific sensemaking that recognizes and leverages the different experiences and ways of knowing students may use to make sense of the phenomenon.
• Tool 3. This tool is designed for teachers who have laid the groundwork for critical and cultural approaches to AST in their classrooms and are pushing the curriculum to contextualize science further, disrupting the idea that science is acultural and apolitical.