Ed 505.07
Ed 505.07 Professional Education Competency Requirements
Ed 505.07 Professional Education Competency Requirements
The candidate shall demonstrate professional judgment based upon the following knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The candidate:
- Believes that all students can achieve at high levels, shows respect for their varied talents and perspectives, and persists in helping all students achieve success
- Understands and keeps abreast of the central and tools of inquiry of the subject areas taught, appreciating the ever-changing nature of knowledge. The central concepts of a subject area include:
- information and issues relating to the subject area.
- Themes and generalizations pertaining to the subject area.
- Creates meaningful learning experiences based upon knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject matter, the students, the community, local curricula, and state curriculum frameworks.
- Understands how students learn and develop and provides opportunities that support their cognitive, linguistic, creative, social, moral, emotional, and physical development.
- Understands and identifies differences in students’ approaches to learning and designs instruction that is responsive to their diverse needs.
- 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 selfmotivation; 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.
- 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:
- professional literature;
- professional organizations;
- colleagues; and
- 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 responsibility of students and parents.
(effective 7/24/03)