Module 2 Sunday, October 7, 2007

The comments you wrote after the September meeting were thoughtful and inciteful. You demonstrated your expertise in getting to know your students! Now let's see how you can extend your thinking. This month we are concentrating on the sentence stem:


Because I know___ These are the Five Core Propositions

I do ___ These are the NBPTS Standards

which impacts student learning by____ This is the evidence of how learning is impacted based
on instructional decisions and planning


You apply your knowledge of students every day in your classrooms in order to design appropriate instructional experiences (lessons) and provide evidence of the Core Propositions and the NBPTS Standards in your daily classroom practice. Teachers recognize individual differences in their students and adjust their practice accordingly. Exemplary teachers have an understanding of how students develop and learn.

You have posted the sentence stem in your room to enccourage you to think about how this statement applies to your instuctional choices and decisions throughout the school day. You have been doing this automatically. The challenge now is to bring this decision-making process to the forefront - to become conscious of it and recognize how frequently you do it.

This month talk to each other using the sentence stem. Share a few examples of how you have applied this statement in your classroom recently. Feel free to respond to each other's comments.You aren't bragging - you are citing evidence - just as you will need to if you decide to become a candidate in the future.