Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching

About the Author:
Charlotte Danielson is is a program administrator for Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey. She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten through college; worked as a consultant on curriculum planning, performance assessment, and professional development for numerous schools and school districts in the United States and overseas; and designed materials and training programs for ASCD, ETS, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

In addition to authoring Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, Danielson developed an ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit, Teaching for Understanding. Her work has encouraged assessment in the service of learning by both teachers and students.