Rubrics for NCATE Standards

Candidates know and understand the connections among concepts, procedures, and applications from content areas

K, D

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates do not recognize and/or fail to make connections among concepts, procedures and applications across the content areas (see 2b-2h)
  
  
• Candidates do not demonstrate scholarly habits of mind

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates recognize and make connections among concepts, procedures, and applications across the content areas
  
  
• Candidates demonstrate, through personal actions and teaching, scholarly habits of mind

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates apply connections among concepts, procedures and applications across the content areas (see 2b-2h) in K-6 classroom teaching
  
  
• Candidates demonstrate scholarly habits of mind in their teaching
  

Candidates use this knowledge and understanding to motivate K-6 students and to build understanding

K, S, I

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates do not draw on their knowledge of developmental stages to motivate students and build understanding

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates draw on their knowledge of developmental stages to motivate students and build understanding
  
  
• Candidates model the use of multiple perspectives to understand complex issues

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates integrate developmental stages into instruction so that their K-6 students make connections among concepts, procedures, and applications; are motivated; and learn the power of multiple perspectives to understand complex issues

Candidates encourage K-6 students to apply their knowledge, skills, tools, and ideas to real world issues

K, S, I

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates do not create learning experiences for K-6 students that encourage the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and ideas across fields of knowledge

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates create learning experiences for K-6 students that encourage the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and ideas across fields of knowledge; K-6 students realize how knowledge, skills, and ideas relate to their lives and to other real world situations

Evidence demonstrates that:

• Candidates’ students demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge, skills, tools, and ideas across content areas (see 2b-2h); K-6 students apply the knowledge, skills, and ideas to their lives and to other real world situations