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Standards: Standard 1
Master teacher educators:
Model professional teaching practices that demonstrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes reflecting the best available practices in teacher education.
Indicators Potential Sources of Evidence
Master teacher educators:
- Model effective instruction, reflection, and evaluation for prospective and practicing teachers
- Demonstrate and encourage critical thinking and problem solving among teacher educators, teachers, and prospective teachers
- Promote practices that enhance both an understanding of diversity and instruction that meets the needs of society
- Regularly revise courses taught to incorporate recent materials, including technology
- Consciously encourage and challenge students to be reflective practitioners
- Use a variety of innovative instructional methods; matching learning objectives with student needs and appropriate teaching strategies
- Mentor novice teachers and teacher educators
- Apply specialized knowledge and processes of inquiry which are central to teacher education
- Interpret developmental phases of becoming a teacher in a culturally and economically diverse society
- Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of school context and culture upon teacher education
- Demonstrate currency of knowledge regarding issues critical to education, and especially teacher education
- Evaluations and/or statements from students, peers, and supervisors
- Video and/or audio tapes of teaching
- List of courses taught, with syllabus and assessment of each course, block. or series of activities
- Instructional materials developed
- Testimonials of mentoring of peers, current students, or former students
- Teaching awards, recognition
- Documentation of changes in teaching based on recent findings from research and practice
- Logs or other written evidence of activities in classrooms during past two years
- Journals of reflective examination of own practice
- Documentation of effectiveness of past students as model teachers
- Scores on tests of knowledge of central concepts in teacher education and subject matter of candidate's discipline
- Written philosophical statement that reflects underlying knowledge and values of teacher education
- Courses, experiences, case studies that reflect the best research and exemplary practice
- Video or audio tapes of presentations, teaching episodes, or other experience that reflect best research and exemplary practice
- Other evidence as appropriate to the candidate's role and responsibilities
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