General Curriculum Multi-Subject

Content Standards and Indicators for NC HOUSSE

Met / Not Met / General Curriculum Multi-Subject
Content Standards and Indicators for NC HOUSSE / Content Indicator Evidence Code(s) /
Standard 1: Teachers have a broad knowledge and understanding of the development and application of language.
Indicator 1: Teachers know the developmental stages of language acquisition.
Indicator 2: Teachers understand the school child’s social, cultural, linguistic, cognitive, and affective backgrounds as they relate to the ability to develop effective communication processes.
Indicator 3: Teachers understand the evolving nature of the English Language.
Standard 2: Teachers have a broad understanding of literacy including reading processes and literature.
Indicator 1: Teachers understand reading theory.
Indicator 2: Teachers understand skills and strategies that enhance reading.
Indicator 3: Teachers understand comprehension strategies.
Indicator 4: Teachers know and understand a diverse range of historical and contemporary literatures including literature written for children and young adults.
Indicator 5: Teachers understand works from a range of genres.
Indicator 6: Teachers understand ethnic diversity and cultural diversity in literature.
Standard 3: Teachers know and understand written and oral composing processes.
Indicator 1: Teachers understand the importance of teaching grammar and usage in context.
Indicator 2: Teachers know and understand the written composition process.
Indicator 3: Teachers understand the conventions of Standard English.
Indicator 4: Teachers understand the different forms of oral discourse.
Met / Not Met / General Curriculum Multi-Subject
Content Standards and Indicators for NC HOUSSE / Content Indicator Evidence Code(s) /
Standard 4: Teachers have a broad knowledge and understanding of the major concepts in mathematics.
Indicator 1: Teachers have knowledge of number sense, numeration, and numerical operation.
Indicator 2: Teachers demonstrate an understanding of the properties of, and operations on real and complex numbers and algebraic systems.
Indicator 3: Teachers demonstrate an understanding of elementary number theory.
Indicator 4: Teachers demonstrate an understanding of set theory.
Indicator 5: Teachers use computational tools and strategies and estimate appropriately.
Standard 5: Teachers understand measurement, spatial sense, and the properties of relationships of two- and three-dimensional space.
Indicator 1: Teachers have knowledge of geometry and measurement.
Indicator 2: Teachers demonstrate an ability to connect geometry to other strands of mathematics and use it to solve problems.
Indicator 3: Teachers demonstrate an understanding of the properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects.
Indicator 4: Teachers demonstrate an understanding of other coordinate systems and representational models and their uses.
Indicator 5: Teachers use appropriate technology and/or manipulatives to explore geometric concepts.
Standard 6: Teachers understand patterns, relationships, functions, symbols and models.
Indicator 1: Teachers demonstrate an ability to model and analyze situations and number patterns with numerical, graphical, and symbolic representations; and explore their connections.
Indicator 2: Teachers demonstrate an ability to analyze tables and graphs to identify properties and relationships.
Indicator 3: Teachers demonstrate the ability to use mathematics and technological tools to solve “real world” problems.
Indicator 4: Teachers demonstrate an understanding of functions and relations.
Standard 7: Teachers understand the major concepts of probability and statistics, including collecting, displaying, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data.
Indicator 1: Teachers demonstrate the ability to use a variety of standard techniques for organizing and displaying data in order to detect patterns and departures from patterns.
Indicator 2: Teachers demonstrate the ability to use surveys.
Indicator 3: Teachers demonstrate the ability to use probability models to draw conclusions from data and measure the uncertainty of those conclusions.
Indicator 4: Teachers use appropriate technology to collect, display, organize, and interpret data.
Standard 8: Teachers have a broad knowledge and understanding of the major concepts in science.
Indicator 1: Teachers understand the major concepts in life science.
Indicator 2: Teachers understand the major concepts in physical science.
Indicator 3: Teachers understand the major concepts in earth science.
Indicator 4: Teachers have knowledge of controversial issues and how they impact learning.
Standard 9: Teachers understand the nature of science, the historical development of scientific thought and the application of science in society.
Indicator 1: Teachers understand that science is universal and multidisciplinary; that the boundaries of the disciplines are artificial.
Indicator 2: Teachers understand that scientific explanations must be consistent with observations and evidence.
Indicator 3: Teachers understand that all scientific knowledge is probabilistic and subject to change.
Indicator 4: Teachers understand the development of the major scientific advances and that scientific knowledge builds on previous knowledge, but is not necessarily linear.
Indicator 5: Teachers understand that diverse cultures have contributed to scientific knowledge.
Indicator 6: Teachers understand that major scientific advances have affected and changed human society.
Standard 10: Teachers understand the math concepts and processes and the technologies that are used in science.
Indicator 1: Teachers have a conceptual understanding of mathematics as appropriate to the science content that they teach.
Indicator 2: Teachers understand systems of measurement.
Indicator 3: Teachers know how to chart and graph data.
Standard 11: Teachers have a broad knowledge and understanding of the major concepts in social studies.
Indicator 1: Teachers should have a basic knowledge and understanding of the tapestry of world cultures.
Indicator 2: Teachers understand the social science disciplines.
Indicator 3: Teachers know and understand the developmental progression from the individual to the nation.
Indicator 4: Teachers have a basic knowledge of local and national traditions.
Indicator 5: Teachers have knowledge of history and historical concepts.
Indicator 6: Teachers have knowledge of political science and economic concepts.
Standard 12: Teachers know relevant applications of the social studies content.
Indicator 1: Citizenship.
Indicator 2: Historical perspectives.
Indicator 3: Global interdependence.
Indicator 4: Life skills.
Indicator 5: Spatial perspectives.
NC HOUSSE Evaluation Date
Name of HOUSSE Evaluator (Please print)
Signature of HOUSSE Evaluator
Name of Teacher as it appears on the NC license
Signature of Teacher
SSN of Teacher

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Approved by the State Board of Education

June 30, 2005