4-C:  Performance and Skills: Teachers engage in activities to:

• Identify and design instruction appropriate to students’ stage of development, learning styles, strengths and needs.
• Plan instruction based on knowledge of classroom, school and community.
• Plan and develop effective lessons by organizing instructional activities and materials, incorporating a wide range of community and technology resources to promote achievement of lesson objectives.

Standard–5: Assessment

5-A: Knowledge and Understanding: Teachers know and understand:

• Different types of assessments to assess students’ learning and performance.
• The results of assessment to evaluate and improve teaching and learning.
• Assessment-related issues, such as validity, reliability, business and scoring concerns.

5-B: Dispositions: Teachers give value and are committed to:

• The belief that students’ learning outcomes are the basis for growth and the deficiencies

are opportunities for learning.

• Fair, objective assessment and reporting to students and families.

5-C:   Performance and Skills: Teachers engage in activities to:

Develop and use teacher made tests for continuous internal assessment of students’ performance

• Analyze students’ performance using multiple sources of data
• Help students engage in objective self-assessment.
• Develop and use objective assessment tools to measure students’ progress.

Standard–6: Learning Environment

6–A: Knowledge and Understanding: Teachers know and understand:

• How learning takes place in classrooms.
• How the classroom environment influences learning and promotes positive behavior for all
• How classroom participation supports students’ commitment to learning?

Dispositions: Teachers give value and are committed to:

• The role of students in promoting each other’s learning and recognize the importance of peer relationships in creating a conducive climate of learning.
• Use democratic values in the classroom.
• Taking responsibility for establishing a constructive and engaging climate in the classroom and participate in maintaining such a climate in the school as a whole.

6-C: Performance and Skills: Teachers engage in activities to:

• Maintain a learning community in which students assume responsibility for themselves and one another.