Ed 505.07

Ed 505.07 Professional Education Competency Requirements

The candidate shall demonstrate professional judgment based upon the following knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The candidate:

1. 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
2. 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:
   1. information and issues relating to the subject area.
   2. Themes and generalizations pertaining to the subject area.
3. Creates meaningful learning experiences based upon knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject matter, the students, the community, local curricula, and state curriculum frameworks.
4. Understands how students learn and develop and provides opportunities that support their cognitive, linguistic, creative, social, moral, emotional, and physical development.
5. Understands and identifies differences in students’ approaches to learning and designs instruction that is responsive to their diverse needs.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Demonstrates proficient oral, written, and nonverbal communication and promotes the development of these skills in students.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Uses a variety of resources to enhance his/her professional development as a scholar, teacher, and educational leader, including:
    1. professional literature;
    2. professional organizations;
    3. colleagues; and
    4. service opportunities.
12. 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.
13. Evaluates and uses a variety of current technologies to enhance instruction and to advance students’ technological literacy.
14. Shows a commitment to train new teachers and a willingness to actively work with and supervise interns.
15. Practice is based on a clear understanding of professional ethics and the legal rights and responsibility of students and parents.

(effective 7/24/03)