Teachers have deep knowledge of the discpilines they teach, including structures, central concepts and skills, prerequisite relationships, and methods of inquiry.

Teachers make content accessible to students by understanding and addressing preconceptions, presenting ideas in comprehensible and powerful ways, and thoughtfully impelmenting the most effective pedagogical approaches.

Teachers make interdisciplinary connections to scaffold learning, support engagement, and build essential knowledge and skills that cross disciplines and support student learning in multiple contexts.

• How do you stay relevant in your content area?

• What professional development organizations do you belong to and what contributions do you make?

• How do you create an engaging, detailed lesson plan?

• How do you help students to make connections between disciplines?

• What discipline-specific learning strategies do you utilize?

• How do you know that student's grasp deeper learning?

• Not participating in content related professional development

• Not determining prerequisite skills ahead of time

• Using few teaching methods

• Not having detailed lesson plans

• Content errors

• Limited range or no range of pedagogical skill

• Inappropriate instructional strategies

• Lack of conceptual relationships

• Student work with comments

• Lesson plans

• Evidence of professional developmetn

• List of commonly used teaching methods