Performance Outcomes
The following performance outcomes are expected of students in
the
university's teacher certification programs:
Performance Outcomes |
Initial |
Advanced |
| One who communicates, cooperates, and
collaborates
with others in diverse communities. |
- Collaborates with colleagues
- Promotes positive classroom
interaction
- Maintains rapport with students,
families and communities
- Demonstrates interpersonal
skills
- Demonstrates effective
communication
skills
|
- Recognizes social and political
influences on professional
practice
- Demonstrates effective
communication
skills
- Promotes leadership skill in
others
|
| One who demonstrates both general and
discipline
specific content knowledge; is knowledgeable about teachers and
teaching,
learners and learning, and schools and schooling; and thinks creatively
and critically. |
- Diagnoses students' needs
- Creates positive learning
environments
- Analyzes subject matter content
for
effective communication
to students
- Plans instruction that makes
content
meaningful to
all students
- Integrates knowledge across
discipline and other
content areas
- Assesses student progress and
uses
findings to modify
instruction
- Promotes real-world problem
solving
and critical/creative
thinking both within content and across content areas
- Varies methods/pace of
instruction to
meet students'
needs
- Demonstrates technological
literacy
- Uses community resources to
motivate
learning
- Evaluates instruction to better
meet
the students'
needs
|
- Implements supportive
professional
environments
- Incorporates learning and
development
theory into
the conceptual basis
- Applies effective assessment
strategies
- Creates positive organizational
structure
- Integrates parent and community
involvement
- Models skills necessary to
implement
change
- Integrates technology into
specialty
area
- Uses technology effectively to
enhance learning
|
| One who is a developing professional
and a lifelong
learner. |
- Reflects on own actions
- Practices lifelong learning
- Participates in professional
organizations
- Participates in communities of
learners
- Keeps informed of technological
advances that would
enhance learning and teaching
|
- Promotes involvement in
professional
organizations
- Engages in continual professional
renewal
- Reflects on professional role and
activities
- Expands knowledge in specialty
area
- Builds communities of learners
|
