Teacher Candidates Professional Knowledge and skills for other School Personnel Dispositions for All Candidates Student Learning for Teacher Candidates Student Learning for other Professional School Personnel Candidates preparing to work in schools as teachers or other professional school personnel know and demonstrate the content, pedagogical, and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn.
Assessments indicate that candidates meet professional, state, and institutional standards.
Candidates include persons preparing to teach, teachers who are continuing their professional development, and persons preparing for other professional roles in schools such as principals, school psychologists, and school library media specialists. Institutional standards are reflected in the units's conceptual framework and include candidate proficiencies. Teacher candidates have a broad knowledge of instructional strategies that draws upon content and pedagogical knowledge and skills delineated in professional, state, and institutional standards to help all students learn. They facilitate student learning of subject matter through presentation of the content in clear and meaningful ways and the integration of technology Teacher candidates reflect a thorough understanding of pedagogical content knowledge delineated in professional, state, and institutional standards. They have an in-depth understanding of the subject matter that they plan to teach, allowing them to provide multiple explanations and instructional strategies so that all students learn.