Using instructional strategies to promote problem solving Candidates identify a variety of strategies and tools that promote problem solving Candidates plan and practice lessons that incorporate problem solving strategies and reflect on the process used by students to solve problems. Candidates teach concepts using multiple problem solving strategies that engage students in learning. Developing students' performance skills Candidates identify a variety of strategies and tools to promote optimal performance skills Candidates plan and teach lessons that incorporate a variety of strategies to produce optimal performance from students Candidates video their lesson that incorporates a variety of strategies and alternative ways to assist students. They provide a reflection on the appropriateness of the strategies and different ways they assisted students' performance. Principle 5 The teacher uses understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.
Candidates identify strategies that create positive learning environments.
Candidates create and reflect on lessons that include strategies that create positive learning environments. Candidates reflect in their journal a variety of classroom strategies that they use to create a positive learning environment. Promoting social interaction Candidates identify strategies, such as cooperative learning to encourage positive social interaction. Candidates plan, teach and reflect on lessons including grouping strategies that promote positive social interaction. Candidates teach a lesson incorporating cooperative learning and through checklists and other tools the students analyze and reflect on their ability to work cooperatively.