Offers advice, step-by-step procedures, and practical tools for using the framework in teacher preparation, recruitment and hiring, mentoring and peer coaching; self-directed professional inquiry; professional development; and teacher evaluation. Demonstrates how the Framework for Teaching can inform professional growth throughout a teacher's career--from preservice training through the attainment of the skills and knowledge that characterize distinguished teaching.

Introduction -- Evidence of teaching -- Promoting professional learning -- Using the framework across the career spectrum -- Using the framework for teaching for teacher evaluation -- Using the framework for teaching for self-directed professional inquiry -- Recommended procedures for teacher evaluation -- Appendix A : instruments to support teacher evaluation and professional learning -- Appendix B : artifacts of teaching.