Promotes Diversity Sensitivity Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teaches and others in the larger professional community to promote student development of a personal, balanced, and diverse sociocultural perspective based on diversity sensitivity and respect for all.
Works in a Community of Practice Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teaches and others in the larger professional community on working in a community of practice, including sharing evidence of effectiveness, monitoring progress towards curricular goals, making instructional revisions, and accessing services to meet student needs.
Priority: Accesses & Builds Systemic Services & Supports Leads, evaluates, and designs strategic systemic service and supports built through cooperative partnerships within the larger professional community to meet student needs (e.g. advocacy, grant writing, securing services, leading initiatives, creating programs, etc.).
Domain: Classroom Manager
Creates & Manages a Learning Environment Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on designing classroom layouts and organizational strategies to: (a) promote student interaction, including the use of various grouping structures; (b) meet student needs and well-being; (c) minimize disruption; (d) allow teacher movement for monitoring student progress and productivity; and (f) encourage self-directed student learning.
Manages Behavior Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others within the larger professional community on (a) research-based classroom behavior expectations, (b) effective classroom practices, and (c) using behavioral data to identify students needing more intensive behavioral support.
Monitors Progress towards Goals Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on the use of on-going, consistent assessment throughout the instructional process to generate data about the effect of instruction on individual and class progress towards meeting learning goals.
Communicates Progress towards Goals Provides leading, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on maintaining student records and using effective methods for communicating students progress towards meeting learning goals, including the use of: (a) samples of student, (b) success criteria, (c) rubrics, (d) scoring guides, (f) performance analyses, (g) evidence of performance, and (h) documentation structures.
Domain: Instructional Designer
Develops Research-Based Instruction Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on designing instruction, including: (a) research-based lesson planning models and/or practices, (b) models of growth and development, (c) application theories of learning, (d) conducting and using action research, and/or (d) student inquiry and interdisciplinary approaches.
Aligns Instruction to Goals, Curriculum, & Assessment Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on: (a) aligning instruction and assessment to state and/or district curriculum and/or standards; and (b) developing strategies to accomplish goals based on multiple assessment data, curriculum, and analysis of student needs.
Uses Data to Make Decisions Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on developing and adjusting lessons and/or learning goals in response to ongoing analysis of student needs based on the use of multiple sources of data to promote successful student progress.
Differentiates to Meet Unique Student Needs Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on creating and using personal learning profiles and multiple sources of data to intentionally vary one or more of the following: (a) content, (b) process, (c) product, and (d) environment to meet individual student needs.
Plans Student Progress Monitoring Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on creating and using personal learning profiles and multiple sources of data to intentionally vary one or more of the following: (a) content, (b) process, (c) product, and (d) environment to meet individual student needs.
Designs Learning Activities, Tasks, & Experiences Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on curating research-based and/or evidence-based instructional strategies aligned to personal learning profiles and individual student learning goals that can be used by students when evaluating their own learning.
Selects, Aligns, & Curates Strategies Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on curating research-based and/or evidence-based instructional strategies aligned to personal learning profiles and individual student learning goals that can be used by students when evaluating their own learning.
Domain: Facilitator of Thinking & Learning
Promotes Student Use of Technology & Media Tools Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on the curation of resources and student use of technology and/or media communication tools to: (a) collaborate, (b) create, (c) communicate, (d) solve problems, and (e) plan and monitor learning.
Facilitates Self-Directed Student Learning Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on providing feedback and engaging students in: (a) self-assessment and reflection, (b) setting learning goals, (c) selecting and designing strategies, (d) using evidence to manage their own learning, and (d) tracking and reporting their own progress.
Fosters Student Communication & Expression Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on promoting respectful, safe, and free learner expression through speaking, writing, listening, and other media within the school and the larger community in accordance with district policy and student free-expression rights.
Advances Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on how to advance and measure student ability to use critical thinking skills to: (a) analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the complexities of a topic from multiple perspectives, and (b) generate solutions using interdisciplinary and/or diverse perspectives.
Facilitates Student Inquiry & Research Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on facilitating student inquiry and/or research about current local and/or global issues using discipline-specific standards of evidence, methods of inquiry, and forms of communication.
Promotes Connection of Prior Knowledge to New Information Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community to promote student: (a) connection of prior knowledge to new information; and (b) use of prior knowledge to solve local and/or global challenges, predict new information, raise questions, make inferences, and draw new conclusions.
Engages Students in Content Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on creating engaging learning tasks, activities, and experiences through the combining of engaging qualities of work, higher level thinking, and high-yield instructional strategies to engage students intellectually, academically, and/or emotionally in content and in advancing their own learning.
Domain: Reflective Learner
Priority: Increases Knowledge & Skill through Professional Learning Develops, leads, participates in, and evaluates professional learning for teachers and the larger professional community to support on-going teacher learning (e.g. theories of learning, developmental growth models, cycle of continuous improvement, resources and technology, management, innovative practices, use of data to improve instruction, self-directed learning, lesson study, and/or microteaching).
Engages in On-Going Reflective Practice Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community to increase teacher capacity to: (a) reflect on, in, and for practice; and (b) develop critically reflective teaching practice.
Evaluates Effectiveness of Instruction Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on: (a) using multiple sources of data to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction, and (b) revising instruction to meet individual student needs.
Sets Growth Goals Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others in the larger professional community on: (a) setting professional growth goals based on district evaluation criteria, Missouri Teacher Standards/Growth Guides, and/or MTDS Competency Progressions; (b) selecting aligned research-based strategies; and (c) evaluating progress towards goals.
Domain: Professional
Priority: Understands & Promotes the Profession Advocates for the profession within regional, state, national, and global professional educational communities and governmental bodies; and participates in the framing and revision of policies and procedures that promote ethical and professional behavior of all educators.
Priority: Understands & Promotes the Profession Advocates for the profession within regional, state, national, and global professional educational communities and governmental bodies; and participates in the framing and revision of policies and procedures that promote ethical and professional behavior of all educators.
Supports School District Vision, Mission, & Goals Participates in district-level school improvement planning processes and provides training, mentoring, and support to students, families, and colleagues pertaining to district vision, mission, values, and goals.
Communicates Professionally Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports to teachers and others within the larger professional community to promote professional communication through messaging, record-keeping, coaching, conversations, and/or other communication strategies.