Competency 1: Student Learning
Understands how children learn and develop, and provides learning opportunities
that support their intellectual, career, social and personal development.
Portfolio #4: 4MAT, Madeline Hunter and Comparison
Competency 2: Diverse Learners
Understands how children differ in their approaches to learning and provides
learning opportunities supporting their intellectual, social and personal
development.
Portfolio #3: Diversity Week Essay
Competency 3: Communication
Uses knowledge of effective verbal, nonverbal and media communication techniques
and other forms of symbolic representation to foster active inquiry,
collaboration and supportive interaction in the classroom.
Portfolio #6: Learning/Mind Styles
Competency 4: Learning Environment
Uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create
a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active
engagement in learning and self-motivation.
Portfolio #8: Management Plan
Competency 5: Instructional Strategies
Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage
students' development of critical thinking, problem solving and performance
skills.
Portfolio #2: Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan
Competency 6: Planning Instruction
Plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the
community and curriculum goals.
Portfolio #10: Demonstration Teaching Lesson, Evaluation and Reflection
Competency 7: Assessment
Understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate the
continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.
Portfolio #7: Unit Assessment Plan
Competency 8: Reflection and Professional Development
Continually evaluates the effects of his/her choices and actions on students,
parents and other professionals in the learning community and actively seeks out
opportunities to grow professionally.
Portfolio #1: Philosophy and Personal Theory of Learning
Competency 9: Relationships with Parents, Colleagues, and the Larger Community
Fosters relationships with parents, school colleagues and organizations in the
larger community to support students' learning and development.
Portfolio #9: E-Mail Journal
Competency 10: Subject Matter Specialization
Understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the
discipline(s) he or she teaches and can create learning experiences that make
these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students.
Portfolio #5: National Standards
