#6 Instructional Delivery
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
Knowledge Indicator: The competent teacher
6A. Understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
6B. Understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with various instructional strategies.
6C. Knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.
6D. Understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate to life and career experiences.
Performance Indicators: The competent teacher
6E. Evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet student needs.
6F. Uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6G. Monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learner feedback.
6H. Varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6I. Develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
6J. Uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance student learning.
6K. Develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect life and career experiences.
Knowledge Indicator: The competent teacher
6A. Understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these processes can be stimulated.
6B. Understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with various instructional strategies.
6C. Knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human and technological resources.
6D. Understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate to life and career experiences.
Performance Indicators: The competent teacher
6E. Evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet student needs.
6F. Uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6G. Monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learner feedback.
6H. Varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6I. Develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to encourage critical thinking.
6J. Uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance student learning.
6K. Develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect life and career experiences.