Criteria
•Aligns classroom instruction with local standards and district curriculum.
•Uses research-based instructional strategies that address the full range of cognitive levels.
•Demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness in adjusting instruction to meet student needs.
•Engages students in varied experiences that meet diverse needs and promote social, emotional, and academic growth.
•Connects students' prior knowledge, life experiences, and interests in the instructional process.
•Uses available resources, including technologies, in the delivery of instruction
Teacher Behavior
• Aware of/knowledgeable about standards and teaching units that meet standards
• Reading journals/current research
• Doing projects/choices modeling different strategies
• Making accommodations
• Providing hard copies along w/overhead
• Assisted technology
• Group work
• Individual work
• Technology
• Field trips
• Motivational language
• Team building
• Providing social activities
• Involvement in activities out of classroom
• Power Point presentations
• Use of labs and IMC
• Use of science equipment
Optional Documentation
• Assessments
• Units
• Photo diary/documentation
• Lesson plans
• Examples of student work
• Examples of research
• Self-assessment
• Workshop implementation
• Accommodation pages
• Step B's
• Student work evidence of positive development
• Student work
• Photos
• Surveys
• Letters from students or parents
• Social growth lessons
• Photos
• Document time spent at activities
• Student work
• Lessons with choice
• Copies of lesson plans
• Bibliography of resources
• Photos
• Field Trip plans
Other Standard 4 Artifacts
- Assessments
- Lesson Plans
- Photo diary/documentation
- Curriculum map (Tech Paths)
- Examples of student work
- Examples of research
- Self-assessment
- Workshop implementation
- Examples of strategies used
- Examples of chapter lesson taught
- Teacher documentation of accommodations used
- IEP/504
- Emails Notes/conversations
- Progress report
- Student work evidence of positive development
- Student work
- Photos
- Surveys/reflections
- Document time spent at activities
- Curriculum maps
- Letters from students or parents
- Lessons with choice
- Guest speaker/local expert
- Lesson plan (detailed with attachments)
- Power Point slides/Web pages
- Student work examples
- Tests to identify prior knowledge
- Research projects
