Teachers create a learning environment that encourages appropriate standards of behavior, positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation. Teachers foster collaborative relationships with colleagues and families to support students' learning. Teachers use effective communication as the vehicle through which students explore, conjecture, discuss, and investigate new ideas. Teachers use a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to support the continuous development of the learner. Teachers reflect on their practice and assume responsibility for their own professional development by actively seeking opportunities to learn and grow as professionals.
Teachers maintain professional standards guided by legal and ethical principles.
Teachers create learning experiences using a broad base of general knowledge that reflects an understanding of the nature of the world in which we live. 1.1 reflect a variety of academic, social, and cultural experiences in their teaching. 1.2 use a broad knowledge base to create interdisciplinary learning experiences. 1.3 exhibit a commitment to learning about the changes in their disciplines and in our world that models a commitment to lifelong learning for students. 2.1 know their discipline and understand how knowledge in their discipline is created, organized, and linked to other disciplines.