Standard IV: Content Area
- A beginning teacher knows the teacher’s content area and how to teach it.
A. Identify the connections in instructional plans to
· Alaska’s Performance Standards (Grade Level Expectations) where developed;
· Alaska’s State Content Standards; and district curriculum.
B. develop and teach lessons/units that demonstrate
· accurate and current knowledge of the content
· instructional strategies that are suited to teaching the content area, integrating technology where appropriate;
· consideration of students’ developmental stages of content mastery using an analysis of various assessment data (qualitative and quantitative);
· a variety of teaching strategies that encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and performance skills; and connections across disciplines that enable students to apply their content knowledge and process skills to real world situations.
Artifact 1
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Performance Indicator A
Identify the connections in instructional plans to
· Alaska’s Performance Standards (Grade Level Expectations) where developed; · Alaska’s State Content Standards; and district curriculum. Performance Indicator B
Develop and teach lessons/units that demonstrate
· accurate and current knowledge of the content · instructional strategies that are suited to teaching the content area, integrating technology where appropriate; · consideration of students’ developmental stages of content mastery using an analysis of various assessment data (qualitative and quantitative); · a variety of teaching strategies that encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and performance skills; and connections across disciplines that enable students to apply their content knowledge and process skills to real world situations. |
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Performance Indicator BDevelop and teach lessons/units that demonstrate
· accurate and current knowledge of the content · instructional strategies that are suited to teaching the content area, integrating technology where appropriate; · consideration of students’ developmental stages of content mastery using an analysis of various assessment data (qualitative and quantitative); · a variety of teaching strategies that encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and performance skills; and connections across disciplines that enable students to apply their content knowledge and process skills to real world situations. |
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Performance Indicator A
Identify the connections in instructional plans to
· Alaska’s Performance Standards (Grade Level Expectations) where developed; · Alaska’s State Content Standards; and district curriculum. Performance Indicator B
Develop and teach lessons/units that demonstrate
· accurate and current knowledge of the content · instructional strategies that are suited to teaching the content area, integrating technology where appropriate; · consideration of students’ developmental stages of content mastery using an analysis of various assessment data (qualitative and quantitative); · a variety of teaching strategies that encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and performance skills; and connections across disciplines that enable students to apply their content knowledge and process skills to real world situations. |