Perspectives
Preparation
Learning Environment
Instructional Practices
Professionalism
100
This entry provides evidence in your belief that all students can learn and high expectations for all.
What is Entry 1
100
These entries demonstrate your understanding of how people learn and develop intellectually, socially, personally and provides learning opportunities that support this development.
What are Entries 2,3,4
100
Entry which shows your responsibility for establishing an environment of respect, rapport and culture for learning.
What is Entry 4
100
The entries which document that the teacher is flexible and seeks out a variety of strategies that meet developmental needs of the students
What is Entry 2,3, 4 and 5
100
A process by which schools are assigned a status based upon performance and quality criteria established by the state board. The performance criteria include meeting state requirements on assessments, attendance, and for high schools, graduation rates. There are eleven quality criteria that include a school improvement plan, a staff development plan and having fully qualified staff. Schools may be assigned one of four levels of accreditation status ranging from “Accredited” to “Not Accredited”
What is is QPA or Advance Ed.?
200
Entries that demonstrate you belief in the dignity for all, respects customs of diverse groups and provides equitable opportunities for all to learn
What is Entry 2-Entry 3, Entry 4
200
These entries demonstrate your ability to provide different approaches to learning and create instructional opportunities that are equitable, developmentally appropriate and adapted to the needs of diverse learners.
What are Entries 2 and 3
200
Demonstrates and shows evidence of your ability to understand and create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning and self motivation.
What are entries 3,4 and 5.
200
Raising your hand to get the group's attention, asking for 'thumbs up/thumbs down', finger to lips in shhh, eye contact, smiles are just a few examples.
What are examples of non verbal communication
200
A plan that is developed by a school that states specific actions for achieving continuous improvement in student performance.
What is the School Improvement Plan?
300
This entry highlights your ability to use accurate, appropriate assessment data to guide instructional planning the accommodated the learner's need for growth
What is Entry 3
300
How would you integrate across and within your content field to enrich the curriculum to develop reading and/or thinking skills, to help students understand the relationships between subject areas
What is use evidence based reading strategies, teach specific critical thinking skills such as classification, synthesis, Answers vary.
300
Emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships and expressing enthusiasm.
What are the principals of group motivation (entry 4)
300
A teaching/learning strategy in which the students are active in the pursuit of knowledge. They are asking questions, researching, and answering their own and each other’s questions. The teacher is a facilitator and guide but not the chief instructional agent.
What is active inquiry
300
A teacher who continually evaluates the effects of thier choices and actions on others and sees opportunities to grow professional and participates in the SIP process
What is a reflective practitioner?
400
This entry suggests you are a reflective practitioner and will guide your practice using an understanding of the historical,, philosophical and social foundations of education
What is Entry 1
400
These entries demonstrate your ability to plan effective integrated and coherent instruction base on the knowledge of all learning, home, community, subject matter, standards and current methods of teaching reading
What is Entry 1,2,3,5,6
400
The teacher describes a specific plan to organize the physical space in their room to optimize access to learning, ease of movement and safety
What is Entry 4
400
These criteria should be measurable comprehensive for essential content and skills, and specify the minimal level of performance at which students successfully meet the learning objective (i. e., what the students need to do to demonstrate they have met the objective).
What is Assessment Criteria?
400
The entry that documents collaboration and cooperation with the learners' families, community and education personnel to support student learning.
What is Entry 6
500
Which entries shows understanding of the role of technology and your skill at using instructional tools and technology to gather, analyze and present information, increase productivity and enhance communications
What is Entry 1,2,3,4,6
500
This tool is used to demonstrate the strategies to evaluate and ensure the continual intellectual, social personal development of all learning.
What are formatives and informal assessments?
500
The category and entry that demonstrate how to efficiently conduct classroom procedures, student completion of assignments and directions to other support people in your classroom
What is Entry 5 Category 2
500
This requires higher cognitive processing (e.g., using information in new ways, analyzing information/concepts and/or breaking into sub-parts or sub -concepts, making evaluations and judgments supported by appropriate rationales, creating new constructs, processes or products, etc.) NOT tasks which rely simply on rote learning, list making, recitation, or on simplistic manipulation of numbers, facts, or formulas.
What is Critical Thinking
500
Includes institutions, agencies, organizations, industry, students’family members with expertise/knowledge, etc. Examples would include community resources such as individuals, library, museum, hospital, local media, local businesses, or farms and community groups Can be used to help make the curriculum more relevant and meaningful and to help students feel more connected to parents and the community
What are community resources
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