Teachers need excellent communication skills to provide clear, well organized instruction, and to give students feedback about their learning. Successful student teachers will demonstrate excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Oral skills will be demonstrated by the quality of the lessons they teach, the questions they pose, and their responses to student questions and concerns. In both cases quality should be assessed by criteria related to proper use of language, logic, and organization, but the overriding consideration should be functional did students receive and understand the intended message. In addition, teachers should also have excellent interpersonal skills.
Teachers supplement instruction with a wide variety of media.
Recent technological advances have provided teachers with an increasing array of media. Successful student teachers will use technologies appropriate to their discipline and the skills of their students. Instructional planning is the key to successful teaching. Many of the other standards addressed in this evaluation procedure are part of the planning process. Lessons which address national, state, and local standards.