The teacher candidate: The teacher candidate: The teacher candidate: Students: Students: Selects instructional materials Delivers lessons and units and uses Delivers lessons and uses Interact with materials that Select that demonstrate instructional strategies that: and strategies based on their: materials to ensure that are relevant to them. transfer of knowledge to other Help students connect to their Relevance. students’ backgrounds and theories, ideas, and/or Ask questions and learning by linking curriculum Central contexts. contextual knowledge are content. problems that are relevant to with prior knowledge, Foundational evidence base. considered. experiences, and/or cultural them. contexts. Provides opportunities for Links lessons to students’ prior Make connections to prior students to self-select tasks Provides supports that facilitate knowledge. learning to understand that accelerate their learning. engagement. current content. Encourages and provides opportunities for students to make connections to prior learning. Examples of Artifacts that may be used to provide evidence of performance: Evidence of performance provided by artifact: Student achievement data Student feedback Parent feedback Lesson plans/units of study Feedback from observations Instructional activities schedules Student journals/learning logs Student work Reading guides, writing assignments, annotated bibliographies, etc.
The teacher candidate: Selects instructional materials and strategies based on their: Relevance. Central contexts. Foundational evidence base. Links lessons to students’ prior knowledge. Encourages and provides opportunities for students to make connections to prior learning. The teacher candidate: Delivers lessons and units and uses instructional strategies that: Help students connect to their learning by linking curriculum with prior knowledge, experiences, and/or cultural contexts. Provides supports that facilitate engagement. The teacher candidate: Delivers lessons and uses materials to ensure that students’ backgrounds and contextual knowledge are considered. Provides opportunities for students to self-select tasks that accelerate their learning. Students: Interact with materials that are relevant to them. Ask questions and problems that are relevant to them. Make connections to prior learning to understand current content. Students: Select that demonstrate transfer of knowledge to other theories, ideas, and/or content. Examples of Artifacts that may be used to provide evidence of performance: Evidence of performance provided by artifact: Student achievement data Student feedback Parent feedback Lesson plans/units of study Feedback from observations Instructional activities schedules Student journals/learning logs Student work Reading guides, writing assignments, annotated bibliographies, etc.
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