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Critical Attribute
Critical Attribute
Teachers make content accessible to students by understanding and addressing preconceptions, presenting ideas in comprehensible and powerful ways, and thoughtfully implementing the most effective pedagogical approaches.
Teachers make content accessible to students by understanding and addressing preconceptions, presenting ideas in comprehensible and powerful ways, and thoughtfully implementing the most effective pedagogical approaches.
"Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach."
"Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach."
Aristotle
Unsatisfactory
Unsatisfactory
Lesson and unit plans lack consideration for prerequisite knowledge and possible student misconceptions.
Basic
Basic
Lesson and unit plans include instructional strategies and representations of content that are partially suitable and show some consideration for prerequisite knowledge important to student learning of the content.
Proficient
Proficient
Lesson and unit plans include a variety of strategies and representations of content appropriate to the discipline, use a range of pedagogical approaches, and demonstrate understanding of prerequisite relationships among topics and concepts.
Distinguished
Distinguished
In lessons and units planned or adapted, instructional strategies and representations of content are chosen wisely and explicitly for their suitability to the content and their ability to foster high-levels of intellectual engagement, skill development, and critical thinking.
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Appropriate Content -
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Prerequisite Knowledge -
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Skill Development -
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Key Terms
Key Terms
Proficient or Distinguished
Proficient or Distinguished
A proficient teacher understands demonstrates knowledge of both content and pedagogy while a distinguished teacher incorporates both content and pedagogy into each lesson.
A proficient teacher demonstrates a solid understanding of their content while a distinguished teacher demonstrates an extensive knowledge of their content.
A proficient teacher stays current in their content while a distinguished teacher demonstrates those current trends in lessons.
A proficient teacher knows that their content connects with others distinguished teacher demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach to their lessons.
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