VLACS Reflection

Competency Training

• Understands and uses multiple formal and informal strategies to continually assess student learning and uses that information to modify and design instruction and to communicate students’ progress to parents.
• Is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effects of his or her choices and actions on students, parents, and others in the school and community.
• Uses a variety of resources to enhance his/her professional development as a scholar, teacher, and educational leader, including: a. professional literature; b. professional organizations; c. colleagues; and d. service opportunities.
• Understands schools as complex organizations within a larger community and collaborates effectively with school staff, parents, and others to support students’ learning and well being.
• Evaluates and uses a variety of current technologies to enhance instruction and to advance students’ technological literacy.
• Shows a commitment to train new teachers and a willingness to actively work with and supervise interns.
• Practice is based on a clear understanding of professional ethics and the legal rights and responsibilities of educators and students.

Wimba Voice Tools

• Uses a variety of resources to enhance his/her professional development as a scholar, teacher, and educational leader, including: a. professional literature; b. professional organizations; c. colleagues; and d. service opportunities.
• Understands schools as complex organizations within a larger community and collaborates effectively with school staff, parents, and others to support students’ learning and well being.
• Evaluates and uses a variety of current technologies to enhance instruction and to advance students’ technological literacy.
• Shows a commitment to train new teachers and a willingness to actively work with and supervise interns.
• Practice is based on a clear understanding of professional ethics and the legal rights and responsibilities of educators and students.

Wimba Classroom

• Uses a variety of resources to enhance his/her professional development as a scholar, teacher, and educational leader, including:
• a. professional literature;
• b. professional organizations;
• c. colleagues; and
• d. service opportunities.
• Understands schools as complex organizations within a larger community and collaborates effectively with school staff, parents, and others to support students’ learning and well being.
• Evaluates and uses a variety of current technologies to enhance instruction and to advance students’ technological literacy.
• Shows a commitment to train new teachers and a willingness to actively work with and supervise interns.
• Practice is based on a clear understanding of professional ethics and the legal rights and responsibilities of educators and students.

VLACS Instructors Conference

• Values and is fluent in a variety of instructional strategies and chooses appropriately from them to encourage and enhance students’ thinking, learning, and skilled used of knowledge. Creates a challenging, dynamic, and safe classroom and school community that: a) is sensitive to the full range of student diversity; b) encourages openness, tolerance, respect, caring, collaboration, and self-motivation; c)emphasizes both individual and collective responsibility; and d) fosters a concern for social justice.
• Demonstrates proficient oral, written, and nonverbal communication and promotes the development of these skills in students.
• Uses a variety of resources to enhance his/her professional development as a scholar, teacher, and educational leader, including: a. professional literature; b. professional organizations; c. colleagues; and d. service opportunities.
• Understands schools as complex organizations within a larger community and collaborates effectively with school staff, parents, and others to support students’ learning and well being.
• Evaluates and uses a variety of current technologies to enhance instruction and to advance students’ technological literacy.
• Shows a commitment to train new teachers and a willingness to actively work with and supervise interns.
• Practice is based on a clear understanding of professional ethics and the legal rights and responsibilities of educators and students.