Standards for Beginning Teachers
Fieldwork experiences provide opportunities for candidates to develop effective teaching competencies and demonstrate their ability to:
- Understand the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline he or she teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students.
- Understand how children learn and develop, and can provide learning opportunities that support a child’s intellectual, social, and personal development.
- Understand how students differ in their approaches to learning and create instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
- Understand and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage student development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
- Understand individual and group motivation and behavior and create positive learning environments.
- Understand and use effective verbal, nonverbal, and media communication techniques to support classroom interaction
- Plan instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.
- Understand and use formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous development of the learner.
- Reflect and evaluate the effects of his or her choices and actions on others and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally
- Foster relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support students’ learning and well-being.