Domain: Facilitator of Student Thinking & Learning
​Competency: Promotes Connection of Prior Knowledge to New Information

Level-Specific Learning Statements

Aspiring

Connects prior knowledge with new information to (a) challenge conventional assumptions and standard approaches; (b) connect ideas; (c) solve problems; and/or (d) draw new conclusions.

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Preparing

Connects new student learning to their ways of knowing, thinking, and learning.

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Emerging

Identifies student prior knowledge and ways of knowing, thinking, and learning and makes connections to content.

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Developing

Develops student ability to connect prior knowledge to current instruction by promoting student (a) questioning and (b) challenges to conventional assumptions and standard approaches.

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Mastering

Measures student ability to connect prior knowledge to new information by predicting, raising questions, making inferences, drawing conclusions, developing arguments, connecting ideas, solving problems, and challenging conventional assumptions and standard approaches.

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Leading

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/global challenges, predict new information, raise questions, make inferences, and draw new conclusions.