Component 3: Curriculum

Modules: Pedagogy and Responsibilities Standards

In preparation for the PPR All-level (160) Certification test, we plan two separate courses: PPR and the content area of Technology Applications.

The Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities Standards, Domain Competencies and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Technology Applications shall be the curricular basis for all educator preparation programs and certifications at Austin Community College.

The first section addresses the curriculum as it applies to the Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities and how they relate to the Domain Competencies. The second component addresses content specific curriculum for Technology Applications and how they relate to the Domain Competencies and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities (PPR):

A comprehensive curriculum framework shall be provided to all participants in the Teacher Certification Program. The curriculum framework is aligned with the PPR Standards and Domain Competencies adopted by the State Board of Educator Certification. Instruction will address current research and methodology to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary for successful classroom instruction. To ensure success, evaluations demonstrating student mastery of these professional standards and competencies are built into the program. All students must pass the Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities TExES to receive certification from the State Board of Educator Certification. TCP participants will receive a minimum of 108 contact hours of training in the PPR modules of the program. The training is divided into 15 training modules as follows:

Module One: Human Development
  • Characteristics of Adolescent Development
  • Jean Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
  • Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development
  • Brain Research and Learning
/ Module Two: Supportive Environment
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • Emotion and Learning
  • Classroom Management and Positive Discipline
  • Learning about At-Risk Populations

Module Three: Human Diversity
  • Environmental Concerns
  • Learning Styles
  • The Culture of Students
/ Module Four: How Learning Occurs
  • Current Brain Research and Learning
  • Piaget’s Developmental Approach
  • Understanding the Gifted student
  • Understanding Full Inclusion
  • Reading in the classroom
  • Assessment and Learning

Module Five: Motivation
  • TeachingEffectiveness
  • Student Empowerment
  • Glasser’s Model for Climate
/ Module Six: Planning Processes
  • Defining Objectives and Outcomes
  • Effective Teaching Practices
  • Teacher Directed Learning/Self-Directed Learning
  • Cooperative/Collaborative Learning
  • Lesson Designs and Lesson Planning

Module Seven: Communication
  • Verbal
  • Non-Verbal
  • Questioning Techniques
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Active vs. Passive Learning
  • ESL students in the classroom
/ Module Eight: Higher-Order Thinking
  • Deductive Learning/Inductive Learning
  • Cooperative/Collaborative Strategies
  • Discussion Strategies
  • Strategies for Assessment
  • Teacher and Student Roles

Module Nine: Educational Resources
  • Planning
  • Where to Find Resources
  • Print Resources
  • Visual Resources
  • Videodisk and Interactive Video
  • Computer Software Tools
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • Manipulatives and Labs
  • Human Resources
  • Evaluation of Resources
/ Module Ten: Assessment
  • Formative Assessments
  • Summative Assessments
  • Informal Assessments vs. Formal Assessments
  • Teacher Made Tests
  • Authentic Assessment
  • Self/Peer Assessment
  • Standardized Testing
  • Rubrics
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy and Assessment

Module Eleven: Lifelong Learning
  • Classroom Management
  • Content related to real life
  • Discipline Procedures
  • Modeling Behavior
  • College/University model of continuing education
/ Module Twelve: School Culture
  • Team Player
  • Team Responsibilities
  • School Activities and Special Assignments
  • Professional Growth
  • Site-Based Management
  • Working with a Mentor Teacher

Module Thirteen: Parent/Teacher Relationships
  • Developing a Relationship
  • Communication Tools
  • Parent/Teacher Conferences
/ Module Fourteen: Community Relations
  • Community Involvement
  • Using Community Resources
  • Legal Issues

Module Fifteen: Teaching in Texas
  • Responsibilities to the other Professionals in the school
  • Rules for Special Populations
  • TAC Rules and Regulations
  • PDAS
  • Legal Issues and Teaching
  • Code of Ethics
  • Professional Organizations
  • Texas Resources

Assessment will be in both a formative and summative format. A rubric stressing quality standards will accompany assessments.

Formative evaluation tools will include:

  • Written Summaries of Observations
  • Paper and Pencil Tests Over Each Module
  • Applications/Demonstrations
  • Outside assignments

Summative evaluations will include:

  • Written Work
  • Conferences
  • Demonstrations /Applications
  • Mentor Teacher Evaluations
  • Peer Evaluations
  • Professional Teaching Portfolio
  • Summary Evaluation by Committee

Attachments in Appendix:

Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities Standards, EC-Grade 12

TExES Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities EC-12, Test Framework

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module One: Human Development
  • Characteristics of Adolescent Development
  • Study of the works of Piaget and Erikson, as it applies to the Cognitive and Psychosocial development of the learner.
  • Brain research and learning.
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
PPR Standard I: 1.1k, 1.2k, 1.14s, 1.11k, 1.11s
PPR Standard II & III: 2.1k, 2.2k, 2.3k, 2.1s, 2.2s, 2.3s, 2.4k, 2.4s, 2.17k, 2.17s, 2.23k, 2.21s, 3.12k, 3.15s / Successful completion of knowledge modules via written/ performance assessments.
Identify chief components of brain research and learning.
Identify characteristics of adolescent development.

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Two: Supportive Environment
  • A study of the work of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
  • Emotion and Learning
  • Classroom management and positive discipline
  • Learning about At Risk Populations

Module Three: Human Diversity
  • Environmental Concerns
  • Learning Styles
  • The Culture of Students
  • Special Education students, modifications, and inclusion
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competencies: 5 & 6
PPR Standard I: 1.3k, 1.4k,, 1.2s, 1.3s
PPR Standard II & III: 2.1k-2.3k, 2.4k, 2.5k, 3.15s, 3.16s
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competencies: 5 & 6
PPR Standard I: 1.5k, 1.6k, 1.2s, 1.3s, 1.4s, 1.5s, 1.15s
PPR Standard II: 2.1k, 2.2k, 2.3k, 2.1s, 2.2s, 2.3s, 2.21s / Use effective teaching cycle in lesson plan
Structure classroom management plans
Design strategies for dealing with at-risk children, special education & gifted and talented students
Chooses appropriate assessment for lesson
Classroom observations, Effective Practices checklist, portfolio project
Use effective teaching cycle in lesson plan, including lessons that address all three learning styles
Design strategies for dealing with at-risk children, special education & gifted and talented students
Chooses appropriate assessment for lesson

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Four: How Learning Occurs
  • Current Brain Research and Learning
  • Piaget’s Developmental Approach
  • Understanding the Gifted student
  • Understanding Inclusion
  • Reading in the classroom
  • Assessment and learning

Module Five: Motivation
  • Teaching effectiveness
  • Student Empowerment
  • Glasser’s Model for Climate
  • Use of physical space
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competency: 5
PPR Standard I: 1.8s, 1.10k, 1.10s, 1.23k
PPR Standard II & III: 2.1k- 2.3k, 2.4k, 2.5k, 2.2s, 2.3s, 2.5s, 2.6k-2.9k, 2.6s-2.9s, 2.22k, 2.23k, 2.19s, 2.20s, 2.21s, 3.15k, 3.16k,
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competencies: 5, 6
TExES Domain 3: Competency: 8
PPR Standard I: 1.4k, 1.4s, 1.11s, 1.15s, 1.7s, 1.9s, 1.19s, 1.23s
PPR Standard II & III: 2.4k, 2.4s, 2.5s, 2.5k, 3.13k, 3.14k, 3.17s, 3.18s
PPR Standards: Technology Applications 1-5 / ARD/IEP details
Examples of challenges for gifted
ARD/IEP/Modifications & Accommodations
Use effective teaching cycle in lesson plan, including lessons that address all three learning styles
Successful completion of knowledge modules via written/ performance assessments.
Plan for learning centers and physical use of space
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Field-based project designed by the pre-service teacher and instructor to integrate elements of this standard.
Design lesson plan for field based experience.

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Six: Planning Processes
  • Defining Objectives and Outcomes
  • Effective Teaching Practices
  • Teacher Directed Learning and Self-Directed Learning

Module Seven: Communication
  • Verbal
  • Non-verbal
  • Questioning Techniques
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Active vs. Passive Learning
  • ESL students in the classroom
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competency: 6
TExES Domain 3: Competencies: 8, 10, Technology Applications 1-5
PPR Standard I: 1.1s, 1.2s, 1.7k, 1.8k, 1.9k, 1.12k, 1.14k, 1.6s, 1.12s, 1.16k, 1.19k, 1.19s, 1.21k, 1.20s, 1.22k, 1.21s
PPR Standard II: 2.22k, 2.23k, 2.21s
PPR Standard III: 3.13s
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 3: Competencies: 2, Technology Applications 1-5
PPR Standard I: 1.5k, 1.5s, 1.2s, 1.7k, 1.7s, 1.16k, 1.20k, 1.23k, 1.24k, 1.20s, 1.23s
PPR Standard III: 3.1k-3.4k, 3.1s-3.6s, 3.10s / Lesson plans that reflect consideration of diverse learning styles
Artifacts from students
Student-generated lessons and research projects
Utilization of a variety of instructional strategies
Lesson Plans that cover Bloom’s Taxonomy, questioning techniques, visual instruction, models, and learning across the curriculum
Examples of student-generated questions and answers
Modification made for ESL students

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Eight:
Higher-Order Thinking
  • Deductive Learning & Inductive Learning
  • Cooperative & Collaborative Learning
  • Discussion Strategies for Assessment
  • Teacher and Student Roles

Module Nine:
Educational Resources
  • Planning
  • Where to find resources
  • Print resources
  • Visual resources
  • Videodisk & Interactive Video
  • Computer Software Tools
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • Manipulatives and Labs
  • Human Resources
  • Evaluation of Resources
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competencies 5,6
PPR Standard I: 1.20k, 1.26s, 1.28s,
PPR Standard II & III: 2.1k-2.3k, 2.1s, 2.2s, 2.3s, 2.7k, 2.7s, 2.23k, 2.21s, 3.8k, 3.9s, 3.13s, 3.14s, 3.16s, 3.18s, 3.4k, 3.4s, 3.5s, 3.6s, 3.11k, 3.9k, 3.8s, 3.11s
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competency: 6
PPR Standard I: 1.16s, 1.11k, 1.28k, 1.17s, 1.17k, 1.20s, 1.18k, 1.18s
PPR Standard II & III: 2.10k, 2.10s, 2.22k, 3.12s 3.5k-3.11k, 3.7s, 3.9s, / Lesson Plans
Student Artifacts
Artifacts from collaborative learning
Plans designed for collaborative learning showing group rules and responsibilities
List of resources
Accessibility to computer-based instruction
Lesson plans
Successful completion of knowledge modules via written/ performance assessments.
Design lesson plan for field based experience.
Use effective teaching cycle in lesson plan

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Ten: Assessment
Formative Assessments
  • Summative Assessments
  • Informal Assessment vs. Formal Assessments
  • Teacher Made Tests
  • Authentic Assessment
  • Self & Peer Assessment
  • Standardized Testing
  • Rubrics
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy & Assessment

Module Eleven: Lifelong Learning
  • Classroom Management
  • Content related to real life
  • Discipline Procedures
  • Modeling Behavior
  • College & University model of continuing education
  • Positive Reinforcement
  • Ethics
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain III: Competencies: 8, 10
PPR Standard I, III: 1.13k, 1.13s, 1.24k, 1.25k, 1.24s, 1.26k, 1.25s, 1.27k, 1.26s, 1.27s, 1.28s, 1.29s, 1.29k, 1.30k, 1.31k, 3.19s, 3.20s
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competencies: 5, 6
PPR Standard I: 1.22s, 1.23s, 2.6k,
PPR Standard II: 2.7k, 2.8k, 2.9k, 2.6s, 2.7s, 2.8s, 2.9s, 2.10s, 2.11s, 2.13k-2.18k, 2.14s-2.17s, 2.19k- 2.23k, 2.18s-2.21s
PPR Standard III; 3.13s, 3.14s Technology Applications 1-5
TExES Domain 3: Competency: 8 / Create rubrics for lesson evaluation
Observation report focusing on TAKS, TEKS, IEP objectives, etc.
Choose appropriate assessment for lesson
Reports on grades, failures
Model tests
Student work
Successful completion of knowledge modules via written/performance assessments.
Lesson plans reflect diverse learning styles of students
Log of discipline contacts
Artifacts of student behavior
assessment/contracts
Artifacts of student involvement with real world viewpoints
List of resources for teacher continuing education and student opportunities
Satisfactory first month of school experience

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Twelve: School Culture
  • Team player
  • Team responsibilities
  • School activities & special assignments
  • Professional growth
  • Site-based management
  • Working with a mentor

Module Thirteen: Parent & Teacher Relationships
  • Developing a Relationship
  • Communication Tools
  • Parent & Teacher conferences
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 2: Competency: 6
PPR Standard I, II, IV: 1.30k, 1.31k, 1.29s, 2.10k, 2.11k, 2.12k, 2.12s, 2.13s, 4.3k-4.8k, 4.5s-4.8s, 4.9s, 4.10s, 4.11s, 4.9k-4.12k, 4.12s-4.14s, 4.15s
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 3 & 4: Competency: 11
PPR Standard I, IV: 1.5k, 1.5s, 1.30k, 1/31k, 1.24s, 1.28s, 1.29s, 4.1k, 4.2k, 4.1s-4.4s / Transcript of professional continuing development hours
Evaluations of meetings with mentors, supervisors, and principals
Using school resources appropriately to assist in meeting children’s needs
Design assessment tools that promote communication
Logs of parent contacts

Coursework

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PPR Standards & TExES Framework

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Benchmark/Assessment

Module Fourteen:
Community Relations
  • Community Involvement
  • Using Community Resources
  • Legal Issues

Module Fifteen:
Teaching in Texas
  • Responsibilities to other professional in the school
  • Rules for Special populations
  • TAC Rules and Regulations
  • PDAS
  • Legal Issues and Teaching
  • Code of Ethics
  • Professional Organizations
  • Texas Resources
/ TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 4: Competencies: 12, 13
PPR Standard I, IV: 1.5k, 1.5s, 1.6s, 1.18k, 1.18s, 4.17s, 4.1k, 4.4s, 4.7k, 4.9s, 4.11s
TExES Domain 1: Competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4
TExES Domain 4: Competencies: 12, 13
PPR Standard I, IV: 1.15k, 4.13k-4.18k, 4.16s-4.19s, 4.3k, 4.4k, 4.5k, 4.6k, 4.11s, 4.9k-4.12k / Log of activities and contacts within the community
Mentoring Service
Legal resources to consult
Compliance with all professional guidelines as evidenced by TCP staff and campus principal.
Professional Portfolio with rubrics
Scheduled Conferences with Mentor, Supervisor, & Principal
PDAS results
Principal reports

Competency 9 covered in Technology Applications Standards