The following actions took place at the SBE regular meeting. Quality Professionals 1. Approved the Core Standards for Teachers in North Carolina that were developed by the NC Professional Teaching Standards Commission of which all but two of the 15 members are NCAE members. I. Teachers know the content they teach. Teachers have a broad knowledge of content.
Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching specialty.
Teachers understand the ways in which their teaching area connects to the broad curriculum. Teachers know relevant applications to the content they teach. Teachers know how to teach students. Teachers know the way in which learning takes place, and they know the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of the students they teach. Teachers use a variety of methods to teach.