EDFD 2100 - Educational Psychology

Taken from the InTASC Standards, (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, 2013).

Standard 1. Learner Development.

1. 1(d) The teacher understands how learning occurs–how learners construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop disciplined thinking processes–and knows how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning.

2. 1(e) The teacher understands that each learner’s cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical development influences learning and knows how to make instructional decisions that build on learners’ strengths and needs.

Standard 2. Learning Differences.

3. 2(g) The teacher understands and identifies differences in approaches to learning and performance and knows how to design instruction that uses each learner’s strengths to promote growth.

Standard 3.Learning Environments.

4. 3(i) The teacher understands the relationship between motivation and engagement and knows how to design learning experiences using strategies that build learner self-direction and ownership of learning.

Standard 4. Content Knowledge.

5. 4(j) The teacher understands major concepts, assumptions, debates, processes of inquiry, and ways of knowing that are central to the

discipline(s) s/he teaches.

Standard 5. Application of Content.

6. 5(i) The teacher understands the ways of knowing in his/her discipline, how it relates to other disciplinary approaches to inquiry, and the strengths and limitations of each approach in addressing problems, issues, and concerns.

Standard 6. Assessment.

7. 6(j) The teacher understands the differences between formative and summative applications of assessment and knows how and when to use each.

Standard 7. Planning for Instruction.

8. 7(g) The teacher understands content and content standards and how these are organized in the curriculum.

9. 7(i) The teacher understands learning theory, human development, cultural diversity, and individual differences and how these impact ongoing planning.

Standard 8. Instructional Strategies.

10. 8(j) The teacher understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning (e.g., critical and creative thinking, problem framing and problem solving, invention, memorization and recall) and how these processes can be stimulated

Standard 9. Professional Learning and Ethical Practice.

11. 9(g) The teacher understands and knows how to use a variety of self-assessment and problem-solving strategies to analyze and reflect on his/her practice and to plan for adaptations/adjustments.

Standard 10.Leadership and Collaboration.

12. 10(m) The teacher understands that alignment of family, school, and community spheres of influence enhances student learning and that discontinuity in these spheres of influence interferes with learning.