STANDARD 6 – Instructional Delivery
The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
Knowledge Indicators - The competent teacher:
6A. understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
6B. understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with various instructional strategies.
6C. knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.
6D. understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate to life and career experiences.
6E. knows techniques for modifying instructional methods, materials, and the environment to facilitate learning for students with disabilities and/or diverse learning characteristics.
Performance Indicators - The competent teacher:
6F. evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet students’ needs.
6G. uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6H. monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learners’ feedback.
6I. varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6J. develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
6K. uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance students’ learning.
6L. develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect life and career experiences.
6M. uses strategies and techniques for facilitating meaningful inclusion of individuals with disabilities.
6N. uses technology appropriately to accomplish instructional objectives.
6O. adapts the general curriculum and uses instructional strategies and materials according to characteristics of the learner.
6P. implements and evaluates individual learning objectives.
The competent teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance skills.
Knowledge Indicators - The competent teacher:
6A. understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
6B. understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with various instructional strategies.
6C. knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.
6D. understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate to life and career experiences.
6E. knows techniques for modifying instructional methods, materials, and the environment to facilitate learning for students with disabilities and/or diverse learning characteristics.
Performance Indicators - The competent teacher:
6F. evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet students’ needs.
6G. uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6H. monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learners’ feedback.
6I. varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6J. develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
6K. uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance students’ learning.
6L. develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect life and career experiences.
6M. uses strategies and techniques for facilitating meaningful inclusion of individuals with disabilities.
6N. uses technology appropriately to accomplish instructional objectives.
6O. adapts the general curriculum and uses instructional strategies and materials according to characteristics of the learner.
6P. implements and evaluates individual learning objectives.