CAP Resources

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CAP Skill Development Workshops and Training Tools

DESE is developing a series of Skill Development Workshops to support effective implementation of CAP. Using the materials provided, educator preparation programs may choose to facilitate these workshops as part of the training they provide to their program supervisors and supervising practitioners.

Workshop: Using the Rubric

The workshop is intended to help organizations build supervisor capacity for delivering high-quality, targeted, and actionable feedback that is grounded in effectively applying the rubric to the evidence collected throughout a practicum. The workshop also contains activities designed to help support calibration conversations among supervisors. This workshop includes activities that involve conducting simulated formative and summative assessments. In order to provide an authentic experience to participants, programs will have to gather evidence samples to include in the handouts packet before running the workshop. See page 1 of the Facilitator's Guide for more information.

Workshop: Conducting Observations and Providing Meaningful Feedback

The workshop is intended to help organizations build supervisor capacity for delivering high-quality, targeted, and actionable feedback that is grounded in evidence collected during observations and aligned to the CAP elements. The workshop also contains activities designed to help support calibration conversations among supervisors.

Workshop: Using the Model Observation Protocol

This workshop is intended to help organizations support supervisors with an orientation to the process of preparing for and conducting a pre-observation meeting, collecting evidence during an observation, and providing feedback to a teacher candidate during a post-observation meeting.

Workshop: Calibrating on Practice

This workshop is intended to help organizations support supervisors to calibrate their perceptions of effective instructional practice related to the CAP elements.

Calibrating on Practice: Facilitator's Guide

Workshop: Calibrating on Feedback

This workshop is intended to help organizations support supervisors to calibrate their perceptions of effective instructional practice and high-quality feedback related to the CAP elements.

Calibrating on Feedback: Facilitator's Guide

Workshop: Feedback on Feedback

This workshop is intended to help organizations support supervisors to implement the CAP with an opportunity to refine their understanding of high-quality feedback to teacher candidates.

Last Updated: November 14, 2022