Teacher Preparation Program Standards

Standard Three

USA- InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards (2011)
Standard: Standard #3: Learning Environments. The teacher works with learners to create environments that support individual and collaborative learning, encouraging positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation.
Performance:
3(a) The teacher collaborates with learners, families, and colleagues to build a safe, positive learning climate of openness, mutual respect, support, and inquiry.
Performance:
3(b) The teacher develops learning experiences that engage learners in collaborative and self-directed learning and that extend learner interaction with ideas and people locally and globally.
Performance:
3(c) The teacher collaborates with learners and colleagues to develop shared values and expectations for respectful interactions, rigorous academic discussions, and individual and group responsibility for quality work.
Performance:
3(d) The teacher manages the learning environment to actively and equitably engage learners by organizing, allocating, and coordinating the resources of time, space, and learners’ attention.
Performance:
3(e) The teacher uses a variety of methods to engage learners in evaluating the learning environment and collaborates with learners to make appropriate adjustments.
Essential Knowledge:
3(i) The teacher understands the relationship between motivation and engagement and knows how to design learning experiences using strategies that build learner self-direction and ownership of learning.
Essential Knowledge:
3(j) The teacher knows how to help learners work productively and cooperatively with each other to achieve learning goals.
Essential Knowledge:
3(k) The teacher knows how to collaborate with learners to establish and monitor elements of a safe and productive learning environment including norms, expectations, routines, and organizational structures.
Essential Knowledge:
3(l) The teacher understands how learner diversity can affect communication and knows how to communicate effectively in differing environments.
Essential Knowledge:
3(m) The teacher knows how to use technologies and how to guide learners to apply them in appropriate, safe, and effective ways.
Critical Disposition:
3(n) The teacher is committed to working with learners, colleagues, families, and communities to establish positive and supportive learning environments.
Critical Disposition:
3(o) The teacher values the role of learners in promoting each other’s learning and recognizes the importance of peer relationships in establishing a climate of learning.
Critical Disposition:
3(p) The teacher is committed to supporting learners as they participate in decision making, engage in exploration and invention, work collaboratively and independently, and engage in purposeful learning.
Critical Disposition:
3(q) The teacher seeks to foster respectful communication among all members of the learning community.
Critical Disposition:
3(r) The teacher is a thoughtful and responsive listener and observer.
Performance:
3(f) The teacher communicates verbally and nonverbally in ways that demonstrate respect for and responsiveness to the cultural backgrounds and differing perspectives learners bring to the learning environment.
Performance:
3(g) The teacher promotes responsible learner use of interactive technologies to extend the possibilities for learning locally and globally.
Performance:
3(h) The teacher intentionally builds learner capacity to collaborate in face-to-face and virtual environments through applying effective interpersonal communication skills.
Author: Michele Brewer
Last modified: 6/16/2014 2:04 PM (EST)