Core Proposition 1: Teachers are committed to students and their learning.

Strongly demonstrates:

____ a. Knowledge of individual students

____ b. knowledge of student needs

____c. Address 3 students specifically

____d. Actual impact of teacher’s knowledge of students on student learning

____e. Knowledge of how students develop and learn

____f. Teacher is current in practice of teaching

____g. Offers several opportunities for learning

____h. Teacher demonstrates why this learning is important

____i. Equitable treatment of all students

____j. Importance of motivation

____k. Importance of self-concept

Core Proposition 2: Teachers know the subject he/she teaches and how to teach the subject

The teacher strongly demonstrates:

___ A. Understanding of how knowledge in the field is created

___ B. Understanding of how knowledge in the field is organized

___ C. Connects to the larger or other disciplines

___ D. Ability to convey subjects to students

___ E. Provide opportunities for multiple solutions

___ F. Allows Students to think critically

___ G. Generating multiple paths to knowledge

___ H. Provide a variety of resources to present difficult information

Core Proposition 3: Teachers are responsible for Managing and Monitoring Student Learning

Strongly Demonstrates:

___a. A variety of generic instructional skills

___b. Management systems promotes learning environment

___c. a variety of techniques for student engagement

___d. a variety of methods and human resources to meet goals

___e. how to facilitate learning and motivation through independent and social means

___f. appropriate purposes, timing, and focus of assessment

___g. clearly articulated instructional goals

___h. goals are clear and aligned with standards, activities, and resources

Core Proposition 4:

The teacher strongly demonstrates:

___ A. Instructional choices based on established theory

___ B. Instructional choices based on reasoned judgment

___ C. Instructional decisions are clearly grounded (related to A, B and C)

___ D. Instructional choices based on student interest

___ E. Teachers pursue their own learning and development professionally

___ F. Listen, interact with others and purposefully reflect

___ G. Practice is modified through advice

___ H. Practice is modified through research

___ I. Practice is modified through reflection

___ J. Desire to be a continual learning model

___ K. Student interest is at the center of instructional decisions

Core Proposition 5: Teachers are members of Learning Communities

Strongly Demonstrates:

___a. Involvement in collaborative efforts to improve the effectiveness of the school

___b. Partnerships with parents in the education of their child

___c. Communicates and interacts with parents

___d. Working knowledge of the lives of students outside of school

___e. Engagement of the community as a resource for student learning

___f. Appreciation, interaction with, and use of community resources to meet students’

needs

___g. Three examples of active participation in professional community