Candidates assess students, plan instruction and design classroom contexts for learning. Candidates use formative and summative assessment to monitor students’ learning and guide instruction. Candidates plan learning activities to promote a full range of competencies for each student. They differentiate instructional materials and activities to address learners’ diversity. Candidates foster engagement in learning by establishing and maintaining social norms for classrooms. They build interpersonal relationships with students that generate motivation, and promote students’ social and emotional development.
3.a – Candidates administer formative and summative assessments regularly to determine students’competencies and learning needs.
3.b – Candidates use assessment results to improve instruction and monitor learning.
3.c – Candidates plan instruction including goals, materials, learning activities and assessments.
3.d – Candidates differentiate instructional plans to meet the needs of diverse students in the classroom.
3.e – Candidates manage the classroom by establishing and maintaining social norms and behavioral
expectations.
3.f – Candidates explicitly support motivation and engagement in learning through diverse evidence-based practices.