ENGLISH EDUCATION (Grade 6-12)
SUPPLEMENTAL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT
(Based on National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Standards)
PLEASE COMPLETE THIS CONTENT ASSESSMENT NO EARLIER THAN THE LAST MONTH OF THE STUDENT'S INTERNSHIP. This assessment will be submitted online at . Click on Submit Online Assessment in left-hand menu and find the link for the Supplemental Assessment – English Education in the Cooperating Teacher column.
Directions: This assessment is based on National Council of Teacher of English (NCTE)standards that the student should be achievingthroughout the internship and focuses directly on what English language arts teacher candidates should know and be able to do. Rate the student for each standard. This assessment should be discussed with all parties and submitted after the candidate's final assessment.
NSTE Standard 2: Candidate Attitudes
Through modeling, advisement, instruction, field experiences, assessments of performance and involvement in professional organizations, candidates adopt and strengthen professional attitudes needed by English language arts teachers. AS A RESULT, CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 2.1
Not Acceptable Shows little evidence of creating an inclusive and supportive learning environment in which all students can engage in learning;
Acceptable: Creates an inclusive and supportive learning environment in which all students can engage in learning
Target Creates and sustains an inclusive and supportive learning environment in which all students can engage in learning
NSTE Standard 2.2
Not Acceptable Shows little evidence in using ELA for helping students to become familiar with their own and others' cultures
Acceptable Uses ELA to help their students become familiar with their own and others' cultures
Target Uses ELA extensively and creatively to help students become more familiar with their own and others' cultures
NSTE Standard 2.3
Not Acceptable Demonstrates inconsistency in reflective practice and seldom pursues professional growth and collaboration an involvement with appropriate organizations
Acceptable Demonstrates reflective practice, involvement in professional organizations, and collaboration with both faculty and other candidates
Target Uses the results of reflective practice not only to adapt instruction and behavior to assist all student to learn but also to design a well-conceived plan for professional development that features collaboration with academic community group.
NSTE Standard 2.4
Not Acceptable Engages in few practices designed to assist students in developing habits of critical thinking and judgment
Acceptable Uses practices designed to assist student in developing habits of critical thinking and judgment
Target Designs and implements instruction and assessment that assists students in developing habits of critical thinking
NSTE Standard 2.5
Not Acceptable Shows a lack of understanding of how the English language arts curriculum, teachers, students and education in general are influenced by culture, social events, and issues
Acceptable Makes meaningful connections between the ELA curriculum and developments in culture, society, and education
Target Makes meaningful creative connections between the ELA curriculum and developments in culture, society and education
NSTE Standard 2.6
Not Acceptable Demonstrates little evidence of promoting the arts and humanities in the learning of students
Acceptable Engages students in activities that demonstrate the role of arts and humanities in learning
Target Plans and carries out frequent and extended learning experiences that integrate arts and humanities into the daily learning of students
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
Candidates are knowledgeable about language; literature; oral, visual, and written literacy; print and nonprint media; technology; and research theory and findings.
3.1 Candidates demonstrate knowledge of, and skills in the use of, the English language. AS A RESULT, CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.1.1
Not Acceptable: Demonstrates a limited knowledge of students' language acquisition and development processes
Acceptable: Uses knowledge of students' language acquisition and development as a basis for designing appropriate learning activities that promote student learning
Target Integrates knowledge of students' language acquisition and development into instruction and assessment designed to enhance students' learning
NSTE Standard 3.1.2
Not Acceptable Demonstrates little understanding of how reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and thinking are interrelated areas of the ELA experience
Acceptable Demonstrates how reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and thinking are interrelated in own learning and in students' learning of ELA
Target Designs, implements and assesses instruction that engages all students in reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and thinking as interrelated dimensions of the learning experience in ELA
NSTE Standard 3.1.3
Not Acceptable: Demonstrates little knowledge of how to recognize the impact of cultural, economic, political and social environments on language
Acceptable: Demonstrates an awareness in teaching of the impact of cultural, economic, political and social environments on language
Target: Uses both theory and practice in helping student understand the impact of cultural, economic, political and social environments on language
NSTE Standard 3.1.4
Not Acceptable: Shows a lack of respect for, and little knowledge of, diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles
Acceptable: Knows and respects diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic regions and social roles and shows attention to accommodating such diversity in teaching
Target: Shows extensive knowledge of how and why language varies and changes in different regions, across different cultural groups, and across different time periods and incorporates that knowledge into classroom instruction and assessment that acknowledges and shows consistent respect for language diversity
NSTE Standard 3.1.5
Not Acceptable: Demonstrates little knowledge of the evolution of the English language and the historical influences on its various forms
Acceptable: Demonstrates knowledge of the evolution of the English languge and the historical influences on its various forms and uses this knowledge in teaching
Target: Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the evolution of the English language and historical influences on its forms and how to integrate this knowledge into student learning
NSTE Standard 3.1.6
Not Acceptable: Exhibits a lack of knowledge of English grammars and their application to teaching
Acceptable: Uses knowledge of English grammars in teaching students both oral and written forms of the language
Target: Incorporates an in-depth knowledge of English grammars into teaching skills that empower students to compose and to respond effectively to written, oral and other texts
NSTE Standard 3.1.7
Not Acceptable: Shows little knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology or their applications to teaching
Acceptable: Uses knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology in teaching students how to use oral and written language
Target: Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology and phonology through own effective use of language and integrates that knowledge into teaching students to use oral and written language effectively
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
3.2 Candidates demonstrate knowledge of the practices of oral, visual, and written literacy. AS A RESULT, CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.2.1
Not Acceptable: Demonstrates a lack of under5standing of the influence that language and visual images have on thinking and composing
Acceptable: Uses understanding of the influence of language and visual images on thinking and composing in own work and in teaching
Target: Creates opportunities and develops strategies that permits students to demonstrate, through their own work, the influence of language and visual images on thinking and composing
NSTE Standard 3.2.2
Not Acceptable: Shows infrequent use of writing, speaking, and observing throughout the program as major forms of inquiry, reflection, and expression
Acceptable: Uses writing, speaking, and observing as major forms of inquiry, reflection, and expression in coursework and teaching
Target : Creates opportunities and develops strategies for enabling student to demonstrate how they integrate writing, speaking, and observing in their own learning processes
NSTE Standard 3.2.3
Not Acceptable: Exhibits infrequent use of the processes of composing to create various forms of oral, visual and written literacy
Acceptable: Uses composing processes in creating various forms of oral, visual and written literacy and engages students in these processes
Target: Demonstrates a variety of ways to teach students composing processes that result in creating various forms of oral, visual and written literacy
NSTE Standard 3.2.4
Not Acceptable: Uses writing, visual images, and speaking for a variety of audiences and purposes
Acceptable: Demonstrates, through own learning and teaching, how writing, visual images and speaking can effectively perform a variety of functions for varied audiences and purposes
Target: Engages student in activities that provide opportunities for demonstrating their skills in writing, speaking, and creating visual images for a variety of audiences and purposes
NSTE Standard 3.2.5
Not Acceptable: Shows little knowledge of language structure and conventions in creating and critiquing print and nonprint texts
Acceptable: Demonstrates knowledge of language structure and conventions by creating and critiquing own print and nonprint texts and by assisting students in such activities
Target: Uses a variety of ways to assist students in creating and critiquing a wide range of print and nonprint texts for multiple purposes and helps students understand the relationship between symbols and meaning
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
3.3 Candidates demonstrate knowledge of reading processes. AS A RESULT, CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.3.1
Not Acceptable: Shows limited ability to respond to and interpret what is read
Acceptable: Responds to and interprets, in varied ways, what is read, teaching students how to do this as well
Target: Integrates into teaching continuous use of carefully designed learning experiences that encourage students to demonstrate their ability to read and respond to a range of texts of varying complexity and difficulty
NSTE Standard 3.3.2
Not Acceptable: Shows a lack of knowledge of ways to discover and create meaning from texts
Acceptable: Discovers and creates meaning from texts and guides students in the same processes
Target: Uses a wide range of approaches for helping students to draw upon their past experiences, sociocultural backgrounds, interests, capabilities, and understandings to make meaning of texts
NSTE Standard 3.3.3
Not Acceptable: Uses few strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate texts
Acceptable: Uses a wide variety of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts and teaches those strategies to students
Target: Integrates into students' learning experiences a wide variety of strategies to interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts and assesses the effectiveness of such strategies in promoting student learning
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
3.4 Candidates demonstrate knowledge of different composing processes. AS A RESULT, THE CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.4.1
Not Acceptable: Uses a limited number of writing strategies to generate meaning and clarify understanding
Acceptable: Uses a variety of writing strategies to generte meaning and clarify understanding and draw upon that knowledge and skill in teaching
Target: Develops in students an ability to use a wide variety of effective composing strategies to generate meaning and to clarify understanding
NSTE Standard 3.4.2
Not Acceptable: Produces a very limited number of forms of written discourse and shows little understanding of how written discourse can influence thought and action
Acceptable: Produces different forms of written discourse and understands how written discourse can influence thought and action
Target: Teaches students to make appropriate selections from different forms of written discourse for a variety of audiences and purposes and to assess the effectivenss of their products in influencing thought and action
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
3.5 Candidates demonstrate knowledge of, and uses for, an extensive range of literature. AS A RESULT, THE CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.5.1
Not Acceptable: Shows little knowledge of, or use of, a variety of teaching applications for works representing a broad historical and contemporary spectrum of United States, British, and world, including non-Western literature
Acceptable: Knows and uses a variety of teaching applications for works representing a broad historical and contemporary spectrum of United States, British, and world, including Non-Western, literature
Target: Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of, and an ability to use, varied teaching applications for works representing a broad historical and contemporary spectrum of United States, British, and world, including Non-Western, literature
NSTE Standard 3.5.2
Not Acceptable: Shows little knowledge of, or use of, a variety of teaching applications for works from a wide variety of genres and cultures, works by female authors, and works by authors of color
Acceptable: Knows and uses a variety of teaching applications for works from a wide variety of genres and cultures, works by female authors, and works by authors of color
Target: Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of, and an ability to use, varied teaching applications for works from a wide variety of genres and cultures, works by female authors, and works by authors of color
NSTE Standard 3.5.3
Not Acceptable: Shows little knowledge of, or use of, a variety of teaching applications for numerous works specifically written for older children and younger adults
Acceptable: Knows and uses a variety of teaching applications for numerous works specifically written for older children and younger adults
Target: Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of, and an ability to use, varied teaching applications for numerous works specifically written for older children and younger adults
NSTE Standard 3.5.4
Not Acceptable: Shows little knowledge of, or use of, a variety of teaching applications for a range of works of literary theory and criticism
Acceptable: Knows and uses a variety of teaching applications for a range of works of literary theory and criticism
Target: Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of, and an ability to use, varied teaching applications for a range of works of literary theory and criticism and an understanding of their effect on reading and interpretive approaches
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
3.6 Candidates demonstrate knowledge of the range and influence of print and nonprint media and technology in contemporary culture. AS A RESULT, THE CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.6.1
Not Acceptable: Exhibits a lack of understanding of the influence of media on culture and people's actions and communication
Acceptable: Understands how media can influence constructions of a text's meaning, and how experiencing various media can enhance students' composing processes, communication, and learning
Target: Understands media's influence on culture and people's actions and communication, reflecting that knowledge not only in own work but also in teaching
NSTE Standard 3.6.2
Not Acceptable: Shows little understanding of how to construct meaning from media and nonprint texts
Acceptable: Shows an ability to construct meaning from media and nonprint texts and assists students in learning these processes
Target: Uses a variety of approaches for teaching students how to construct meaning from media and nonprint texts and integrates learning opportunities into classroom experiences that promotes composing and responding to such texts
NSTE Standard 3.6.3
Not Acceptable: Demonstrates limited knowledge of how to incorporate technology and print/nonprint media into instruction
Acceptable: Incorporates technology and print/nonprint mediainto own work and instruction
Target: Helps students compose and respond to film, video, graphic, photographic, audio and multimedia texts and uses current technology to enhance their own learning and reflection on their learning
NSTE Standard 3: ELA Candidate Knowledge
3.7 Candidates demonstrate knowledge ofresearch theory and finding in English language arts. AS A RESULT, THE CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 3.7.1
Not Acceptable: Shows a lack of knowledge of the major sources of research and theory related to English language arts
Acceptable: Uses major sources of research and theory related to English language arts to support teaching decisions
Target: Reflects on own teaching performances in light of research on, and theories of, how students compose and respond to text and makes adjustments in teaching as appropriate
NSTE Standard 3.7.2
Not Acceptable: Shows little evidence of using teacher-researcher models of classroom inquiry in preparation program
Acceptable: Uses teacher-researcher models of classroom inquiry to inform own study and teaching
Target : Uses teacher-researcher models of classroom inquiry to analyze own teaching practices to better understand what enables students to speak, listen, write, read, enact and view effectively in varying learning situations
NSTE Standard 4.0: ELA Candidate Pedagogy
Candidates acquire and demonstrate the dispositions and skills needed to integrate knowledge of English language arts, students and teaching.AS A RESULT, THE CANDIDATE
NSTE Standard 4.1
Not Acceptable: Shows limited experience in examining, and selecting resources for instruction, such as textbooks, other print materials, videos, films, records, and software, appropriate for supporting the teaching of English language arts
Acceptable: Examines and selects resources for instruction such as textbooks, other print materials, videos, films, records, and software, appropriate for supporting the teaching of English language arts
Target: Understands the purposes and characteristics of different kinds of curricula and related teaching resources and selects or creates instructional materials that are consistent with what is currently known about student learning in ELA
NSTE Standard 4.2
Not Acceptable: Demonstrates limited ability to design instruction to meet the needs of all students and provides for students' progress and success
Acceptable: Aligns curriculum goals and teaching strategies with the organization of classroom environments and learning experiences to promote whole-class, small-group, and individual work
Target : Creates literate classroom communities by presenting varied structures and techniques for group interactions by employing effective classroom management strategies and by providing students with opportunities for feedback and reflection