The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences.
Learner development is the standard where the teacher shows their understanding of individual learners. According to How to develop a professional portfolio: A manual for teachers, (6th ed.), "Teachers must carefully observe the responses of learners and the effects of their curricular choices. Rather than 'covering material,' teachers must evaluate the quality of the understanding of the content and the developmental appropriateness for the instructional strategies used" (Campbell, 28). This is very important for teachers because students should be challenged in class to meet their targets and the individual student learner outcomes.
I have decided to attach two artifacts from my student teaching that demonstrate this teacher's ability to meet this standard.
Artifact 1 is the pre-assessment used in the Solo unit plan to gage where the students stand on the standards to be met in the first embedded assessment. Artifact 2 is the thinking map used by students for the data point 1 and the embedded assessment 1.
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