Standard Six: Developing as a Professional Educator
6.3 Working with communities to improve professional practice
Description of Practice
Strong Practice that Exemplifies the Standard
The teacher values students' communities and uses knowledge of them to benefit students and families, provide students with experiences that support their learning, and promote collaboration between school and community.
Maturing Practice
The teacher values students' communities and develop knowledge of them to benefit student and families, provide some experience to support student learning, and support collaboration between school and community.
Developing Practice
The teacher understands the importance of students' communities, but is not sure how to apply this to benefit students and families, provide experiences to support learning, or promote collaboration with the school.
Practice Not Consistent with Standard Expectations
The teacher has limited knowledge of students' communities or of how to access them to provide learning experiences for students or to promote collaboration with the school.
What the classroom looks like
- Interacts with their students' community to enhance their students' learning
- Acquires a deep understanding of their students' cultures
- Takes advantage of community resources to enhance learning experiences to gain knowledge about community agencies
- Locates resources for students who may need certain resources or information from community facilities
- Promotes collaboration between school and community
- Considers aspects of students' backgrounds that can make a significant difference in the manner in which they understand content
- Makes a concerted effort to become aware of local resources and to appreciate their value to the curriculum
- Locates the local resources in the community and learns the cultural backgrounds of their students
- Supports students with experiences derived from the community to support their learning
As teachers develop, they may ask, "How do I . . ." or "Why do I . . ."
- value and respect the student's community and appreciate its role in student learning?
- increase my understanding of the cultures and dynamics of my students' communities?
- promote collaboration between school and community ?
- identify and use school, district, and local community social service resources to benefit students and their families?
- seek out and use resources from the local community and businesses to support student learning?
- provide my students with community-based experiences that support their learning?
- interact with students in activities outside the classroom?
Standard 1: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Standard 2: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Standard 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject matter for Student Learning
Standard 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experience for All Students
Standard 5: Assessing Student Learning
Standard 6: Developing as a Professional Educator
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