Single Subject Specific Pedagogy

The English candidate demonstrates the ability to teach the state-adopted academic content standards for students in English-Language Arts.

The candidate understands how to plan and deliver instruction of increasing complexity in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language to ensure that students meet or exceed the standards.

The candidate understands how to make English-Language Arts comprehensible to students and the need for students to use all forms of language as tools for thinking, learning and communicating. 

The candidate understands how to teach the skills for reading and comprehending complex literary and informational texts; interpreting meaning; analyzing structure of texts; and evaluating perspective.

The candidate teaches students how to produce argumentative, informative, and narrative text; implement the writing process; conduct research projects; and write for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

The candidate selects appropriate teaching strategies to develop students' abilities to read and comprehend narrative and informational texts and to cite specific evidence when offering an oral or written interpretation of a text.

The candidate understands how to teach formal and informal speaking and listening skills including collaboration, conversation and presentation of knowledge and ideas.

The candidate understands how to teach vocabulary acquisition and use, standard English conventions, and functions of language in various contexts. 

The candidate models and assists students to integrate technology and media into language arts when conducting research, producing and publishing writing, creating muti-media presentations, and interacting and collaborating with others.

The candidate provides students the opportunity to use and evaluate strengths and limitations of media and technology as integral tools in the classroom. 

The candidate knows how to determine the skill level of students through the use of meaningful indicators of reading and language arts proficiency prior to instruction.

The candidate knows how to determine the effectiveness of instruction and students' proficiency after instruction.