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Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (ITASC) Standards
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The National Education Technology (NETS-T) Standards for Teachers Correlation
Each principle is further discussed in terms of the knowledge, dispositions and performances it implies. These provide the basis for evaluating evidence about a candidates’ achievement of the standards, thus providing guidance for both preparation and assessment.
Principles
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Knowledge of Subject Matter: The teacher 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.
- Knowledge of Human Development and Learning: The teacher understands how children learn and develop, and can provide learning opportunities that support their intellectual, social and personal development.
- Adapting Instruction for Individual Needs: The teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners.
- Multiple Instructional Strategies: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving and performance skills.
- Classroom Motivation and Management: The teacher 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.
- Communication Skills: The teacher uses knowledge of effective verbal, nonverbal and media communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration and supportive interaction in the classroom.
- Instructional Planning Skills: The teacher plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community and curriculum goals.
- Assessment of Student Learning: The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.
- Professional Commitment and Responsibility: The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effects of his/her choices and actions on others (students, parents and other professionals in the learning community) and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.
- Partnerships: The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents and agencies in the larger community to support students’ learning and well-being.
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