Preprofessional: The preprofessional teacher collects and uses data gathered from a variety of sources. These sources include both traditional and alternate assessment strategies. Furthermore, the teacher can identify and match the students' instructional plans with their cognitive, social, linguistic, cultural, emotional, and physical needs.Sample Key Indicators:
- Analyzes individuals' learning needs and practices techniques which accommodate differences, including linguistic and cultural differences.
- Draws from a repertoire of techniques to accommodate differences in students' behavior.
- Identifies potentially disruptive student behavior.
- Identifies students' cognitive, social, linguistic, cultural, emotional, and physical needs in order to design individual and group instruction.
- Employs traditional and alternative assessment strategies in determining students' mastery of specified outcomes. Guides students in developing and maintaining individual portfolios.
- Modifies instruction based upon assessed student performance.
- Provides opportunities for students to assess their own work and progress. Assists students in designing individual plans for reaching the next performance level.
- Maintains observational and anecdotal records to monitor students' development.
- Interpret, with assistance, data from various informal and standardized assessment procedures.
- Reviews assessment data and identifies students' strengths and weaknesses.
- Communicates individual student progress in student, parent, and staff conferences.
- Develops short and long term personal and professional goals relating to assessment.
