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        • Facilitates Self-Directed Learning
        • Fosters Student Communication & Expression
        • Advances Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
        • Facilitates Student Inquiry & Research
        • Promotes Connection of Prior Knowledge to New Information
        • Engages Students in Content
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        • Increases Knowledge & Skill Through Professional Learning
        • Engages in On-Going Reflective Practice
        • Evaluates Effectiveness of IInstruction
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Developing Teacher D

Domain:  Community Builder

Priority:  Builds Relationships & Culture
Facilitates student discussions and evaluations of classroom, school, and community culture to promote understanding of the impacts of culture on relationships and learning. 
Priority:  Accesses & Builds Systemic Services & Supports
Partners with colleagues to create new family-school-community partnerships and/or communications to increase systemic student services and/or supports. 
Promotes Diversity Sensitivity
Facilitates student exploration of issues from multiple perspectives to foster development of diversity sensitivity and respect for all. 

Domain: Instructional Designer

Priority:  Designs Learning Activities, Tasks, & Experiences
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Designs rigorous/engaging activities, tasks, and/or experiences focused on:  (a) promoting complex/critical thinking and critical examination of bias, (b) evaluating local/global challenges from multiple perspectives, (c) generating interdisciplinary/diverse solutions, (d) technology integration to enhance learning and/or solve problems, and/or (e) increasing learner expression.  
Develops Research-Based Instruction
Develops innovative instruction based on conducting and using action research that:  (a) emphasizes essential concepts of content, (b) uses supplementary primary sources, (c) connects to student experience and culture, (d) meets the unique needs of diverse learners, and/or promotes student inquiry and interdisciplinary approaches. 

Domain:  Facilitator of Thinking & Learning

Priority:   Fosters Student Communication & Expression 
Facilitates opportunities for students to direct their free expression in speaking, writing, creating, and other media that adhere to district policy and student free-expression rights. 
Promotes Connection of Prior Knowledge to New Information
Develops student ability to connect prior knowledge to current instruction by promoting student questioning and challenges to conventional assumptions and standard approaches.  
​Facilitates Student Inquiry & Research
Facilitates student independent and/or group acquisition and critical evaluation of information/knowledge pertaining to a local or global challenge using discipline-specific standards of evidence and methods of inquiry.  

Domain:  Professional

Understands & Promotes the Profession
Gains awareness of the larger professional community, including regional, state, national, and global professional educational communities and governmental bodies that impact the profession and revises personal philosophy of teaching. 
Demonstrates Professional Growth & Development
Demonstrates evidence of the use of on-going self-assessment and reflective practice to support new learning (e.g.) reflections, implementation of innovative practices, strategies, and revisions to instruction) gained from conducting action research and/or using other emerging research within the classroom.  
Communicates Professionally
Develops a communication plan to communicate professionally and ethically across all levels of school-family-community partnerships. 
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  • Home
  • Framework
    • Effective Professional Development
    • Domains & Competencies >
      • Community Builder >
        • Promotes Diversity Sensitivity
        • Builds Relationships & Culture
        • Works in a Community of Practice
        • Accesses & Builds Systemic Supports & Services
      • Classroom Manager >
        • Manages Behavior
        • Creates & Manages a Learning Environment
        • Monitors Progress Towards Learning Goals
        • Communicates Progress Towards Learning Goals
      • Instructional Designer >
        • Develops Research-Based Instruction
        • Aligns Instruction to Goals, Curriculum, and Assessments
        • Uses Data to Make Decisions
        • Differentiates to Meet Unique Student Needs
        • Plans Student Progress Monitoring
        • Designs Learning Activities, Tasks, and Experiences
        • Selects, Aligns, & Curates Strategies
      • Facilitator of Thinking & Learning >
        • Promotes Student Use of Technology
        • Facilitates Self-Directed Learning
        • Fosters Student Communication & Expression
        • Advances Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
        • Facilitates Student Inquiry & Research
        • Promotes Connection of Prior Knowledge to New Information
        • Engages Students in Content
      • Reflective Learner >
        • Increases Knowledge & Skill Through Professional Learning
        • Engages in On-Going Reflective Practice
        • Evaluates Effectiveness of IInstruction
        • Sets Growth Goals
      • Professional >
        • Understands & Promotes the Profession
        • Supports School District Vision, Mission, & Goals
        • Demonstrates Professional Growth & Development
        • Communicates Professionally
    • Glossary, Terms and Phrases >
      • Action Research
  • RPDC Programming
    • Contact
    • Program List
  • Registration
  • Facilitator Log-in
    • Career Levels >
      • Aspiring >
        • Aspiring A
      • Preparing >
        • Preparing A
        • Preparing B
        • Preparing C >
          • Level-Specific Learning Statements-Peparing-C
        • Preparing D
      • Emerging >
        • Emerging A >
          • BTAP Information
        • Emerging B
      • Developing
      • Mastering
      • Leading >
        • Level-Specific Learning Statements-Leading
  • Director's Corner