Candidates consider diversity an asset and respond positively to it. Candidates will know, understand, and use the nature of cultural diversity and migration and immigration in the U.S. to improve the achievement and language development of children. These rubrics are additive. Performance Indicator Approaches Standard Meets Standard Exceeds Standard 2.b.1. Use a range of resources to learn about world cultures and cultures of students in their classrooms and apply that learning to instruction Candidates have a general understanding of major cultural groups, and begin to identify resources to increase their knowledge and understanding.
Candidates use their knowledge about major cultural groups to design and deliver instruction.
Candidates integrate different ways of learning and different cultural perspectives into their ESL curriculum and instruction. Candidates continually expand their knowledge of their students' cultures and consistently integrate knowledge of cultural groups into their teaching. Understand and apply knowledge about how an individual's cultural identity can have an effect on their ESL learning, and how levels of cultural identity will vary widely among students. Candidates are aware that ESOL students' cultural identities will have an effect on their learning. Candidates plan and deliver instruction which values and adapts for students' different cultural perspectives.