Standard III: Teachers know the content they teach
Element A: Teachers align their instruction with the CCSS
- Being recognized as a leader by colleagues
- Sharing teaching strategies and materials with colleagues
- Helping colleagues with lesson plans
- Applying teaching strategies that address different learning styes
- Regrouping students for re-teaching based on part of instruction not mastered
- Customizing and developing lessons with related literacy focused activities that address diversity
Element B: Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching speciality
- Engaging students in activities which use 21st century skills
- Developing lessons where students take responsibility for their own learning and researching topics related to the content
- Integrating the content of subject areas with other disciplines
- Assisting colleagues with developing more in-depth- lessons
- Creating and teaching an interdisciplinary unit with teachers from other subject areas
Element C: Teachers recognize the interconnectedness of content area/ discipline
- Working collaboratively with other staff in planning and implementing global awareness activities
- Planning staff development on integrating curriculum
Element D: Teachers make instruction relevant to their students
- Putting student in new situations that require new solutions
- Developing role plays for researching and and using higher order thinking skills
- Having students defend decisions for open-ended real-world questions
- Having students use current technology to do research and defend decisions
- Using actual court cases, political debates, legislative actions to enhance instruction
- Incorporating students self-selected projects emphasizing 21st century skills