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Best Practices |
Global
Perspective
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Critical Thinking
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Multicultural Perspective
2.0 The teacher and other school personnel
understand how children learn and can demonstrate best
practices (a variety of research-based instructional and
learning strategies) to facilitate learning and classroom
management.
a.
Writing
across the curriculum is a best practice that emphasizes
writing as a tool for students to learn course content, and
an expected competence of teacher candidates.
b. Teacher
candidates are expected to competently write in different
genres including journals, essays, abstracts, analyses,
field reports; field and laboratory notes; film reviews;
course logs; analytical notebooks; laboratory reports;
letters to editors and public officials; microthemes; policy
analyses; research proposals, papers, and reports; reviews
(books, articles, lectures, films, exhibits); speculative or
free writing; summaries; syntheses; term papers (long papers
reflecting a more extensive treatment of the topic than an
essay); portfolio development; and translations.
c.
Brain-based learning
strategies emphasizing multiple intelligence theory and
culturally different learning styles represent best teaching
practices to which candidates are exposed and demonstrate
mastery.
d.
Lecture is
an effective method of teaching for a body of knowledge,
dispositions, and skills that can be organized and
systematically presented consistent with best practice
research and is a mastery expectation of teacher
candidates.
e. Ninety years of research and the findings of more
than 600 studies have demonstrated that cooperative
learning is a best practice that yields performance
measures which result in higher-level reasoning, more
frequent generation of new ideas and solutions, and greater
transfer of what is learned within one situation to another
that teacher candidates are expected to demonstrate.
f. The ability to develop cooperative learning
designs, typically three to five learners working in
heterogeneous groups that require cooperative interaction
and decision-making related to tasks that have specific
objectives, performance criteria and reward systems, is a
teacher candidate expectation.
g. Creating technology integrated learner-centered
environments is a best practice emphasized in the teacher
preparation program on which candidates are expected to
demonstrate mastery.
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