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The Sea Crest Teacher:
Engages and Supports All Students in Learning
- Connects students’ prior knowledge, life experience, and interest with learning goals
- Uses a variety of instructional strategies to respond to students’ diverse needs
- Facilitates learning experiences that promote autonomy, interaction, and choice
- Engages students in problem solving, critical thinking, and other activities that make subject matter meaningful
- Promotes self-directed, reflective learning for all students
Creates and Maintains Effective Environments for Student Learning
- Creates a physical environment that engages all students
- Establishes a climate that promotes fairness and respect
- Promotes social development and group responsibility
- Establishes and maintains standards for student behavior
- Plans and implements classroom procedures and routines that support student learning
- Uses instructional time effectively
Understands and Organizes Subject Matter for Student Learning
- Demonstrates knowledge of subject matter and student development
- Organizes curriculum to support student understanding of subject matter
- Interrelates ideas and information within and across subject matter areas
- Develops student understanding through instructional strategies that are appropriate to the subject matter
- Uses materials, resources, and technologies to make subject matter accessible to students
Plans Instruction and Designs Learning Experiences for All Students
- Draws on and values students’ backgrounds, interests, and developmental learning needs
- Establishes and articulates goals for student learning
- Develops and sequences instructional activities and materials for student learning
- Designs short and long term plans to foster student learning
- Modifies instructional plans to adjust to student needs
Assesses Student Learning
- Establishes and communicates learning goals for all students
- Collects and uses multiple sources of information to assess student learning
- Involves and guides all students in assessing their own learning
- Uses the results of assessment to guide instruction
- Communicates with students, families, and other audiences about student progress
- Provides student and parents with consistent, accurate, and timely written information on homework and projects.
Exemplifies Professionalism
- Meets professional obligations (e.g. attending meetings, adhering to deadlines, working collaboratively with teachers and administrators)
- Tolerates different points of view from fellow staff members
- Contributes to the general well-being of the school staff
- Deals with personal information and communication in an ethical manner
- Actively participates in the school teaming process
- Maintains a high standard of professional ethics
- Communicates responsibly and in a timely manner to parents, students, and colleagues
Develops as a Professional Educator
- Reflects on teaching practice and plans professional development both individually and collaboratively
- Establishes professional goals and pursues opportunities to grow professionally
- Works with families and community to improve professional practice
- Works with colleagues to improve professional practice
