NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS (NPSTs)

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.

Standard5: 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.

Standard6: Learning Environment

6A: 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.

 

NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHING

 

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