TeachBridge Pathways: From Practice to Profession

The teacher can use their knowledge of how learners individually grow & develop in cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical ways to design & implement developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experience. They are committed to using the learners’ strengths and misconceptions, along with input from families and colleagues, to promote growth and development.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 1: Learner Development
• Standard 2: Learning Differences

The teacher can meet the diverse needs and backgrounds of individual students, incorporating their language and culture, in designing inclusive learning experiences that enable each learner to meet high standards.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 1: Learner Development
• Standard 2: Learning Differences

The teacher collaborates with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to create a positive learning climate and ensure learner growth.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 3: Learning Environments
• Standard 10: Leadership and Collaboration

The teacher can manage a collaborative learning environment using a wide variety of resources to engage each learner and build learner self-direction and ownership of learning.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 3: Learning Environments

The teacher candidate applies discipline-specific content knowledge to develop instructional plans and activities that ensures the discipline is accessible and meaningful for all learners to master content.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 4: Content Knowledge

The teacher values learning across disciplines and develops and implements meaningful learning opportunities that connect multiple disciplinary perspectives to real world problems.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 5: Application of Content

The teacher connects concepts and values diverse perspectives and authentic issues to engage learners in critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 5: Application of Content
• Standard 8: Instructional Strategies

The teacher uses, designs or adapts multiple methods of valid & reliable assessments for a variety of learners to document, monitor, and support learner progress appropriate for learning goals and objectives.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 6: Assessment

The teacher can engage learners in their own growth by using a variety of assessments to monitor learner progression, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s’ decision making. They are committed to engage learners in generating criteria for quality work, designing learning experiences that helps learners apply feedback and strengthen their performance.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 6: Assessment

The teacher can model professionalism and demonstrate ethical practices while minimizing bias through assessment, instructional practices, and implementation of technology.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 6: Assessment
• Standard 9: Professional Learning and Ethical Practice

The teacher can select, create, and sequence instructional strategies to design learning experiences that engage each elearner in reaching rigorous curriculum goals, making connections across content, and applying content knowledge in meaningful ways.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 7: Planning for Instruction
• Standard 8: Instructional Strategies

The teacher plans and adjusts instruction appropriate for learners’ diverse strengths and needs using multiple sources of data over time.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 7: Planning for Instruction

The teacher plans instruction that reflects collaboration with colleagues, analysis of assessment data, and knowledge of the learner to meet individual learner needs.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 7: Planning for Instruction

The teacher can implement a range of instructional strategies throughout instruction to ensure that learners can access and engage with the learning environment.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 8: Instructional Strategies

The teacher pursues ongoing professional development to adapt teaching practices to better meet learner needs.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 9: Professional Learning and Ethical Practice

The teacher seeks opportunity to engage in appropriate leadership roles that affects student learning and advances the profession.

InTASC Alignment:

• Standard 10: Leadership and Collaboration