5.+PROFESSIONAL+KNOWLEDGE

5. Accomplished teachers know the content they teach.
5.1   Accomplished teachers demonstrate deep and critical content knowledge and conceptual and essential understandings in learning areas. 5.2   Accomplished teachers design and share authenticated, sequenced learning based on thorough understanding of the curriculum in the learner’s context and culture. 5.3   Accomplished teachers critically select and share professional reading and can articulate the research base in which teaching decisions are grounded. 5.4   Accomplished teachers are proactive in developing knowledge of student pathways into and beyond their current learning situations and demonstrate an awareness of whole school curriculum. 5.5   Accomplished teachers demonstrate willingness and ability to assist and support colleagues in the development of programs and the interpretation of curriculum.