Curriculum Standards: Experiencing Education, Eleventh Edition
Experiencing Learning
AWARENESS AND REFLECTION
I.1.1: Students will analyze their strengths and areas for improvement as learners.
I.1.2: Students will evaluate themselves as diverse individuals, learners, and community members.
I.1.3: Students will determine how diversity enhances the classroom and the community.
I.1.4: Students will analyze the role of self-esteem in learning and its contributing factors.
I.1.5: Students will recognize and establish a respectful environment for diverse populations of
students in the classroom.
STYLES AND NEEDS
I.2.1: Students will evaluate different learning styles.
I.2.2: Students will identify the special needs and exceptionalities of learners and determine how
these needs affect the learning process.
I.2.3: Students will evaluate major physical, social, and personal challenges that can impede
successful learning.
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
I.3.1: Students will differentiate among the physical stages of learners.
I.3.2: Students will differentiate among the cognitive stages of learners.
I.3.3: Students will distinguish between the moral stages of learners.
I.3.4: Students will analyze the steps in the psychosocial stages of learners.
I.3.5: Students will apply their knowledge of the developmental changes of learners.
Experiencing the Classroom
OBSERVATION AND PREPARATION
II.1.1: Students will analyze their strengths and areas for improvement as potential teachers.
II.1.2: Students will evaluate positive and negative aspects of the teaching profession.
II.1.3: Students will evaluate appropriate instructional objectives after analysis of developmental
stages of learners.
II.1.4: Students will distinguish between effective and ineffective methodologies and teaching
strategies and traits in various educational settings.
II.1.5: Students will analyze ways in which a teacher’s personality impacts instructional style and
interaction.
II.1.6: Students will defend effective teaching methodologies and strategies.
II.1.7: Students will evaluate components of effective classroom climate, management, and discipline.
II.1.8: Students will incorporate various technologies in the planning of effective instruction and
demonstrate its application.
II.1.9: Students will evaluate various assessment techniques.
II.1.10: Students will design and deliver an effective lesson for instructor and peer feedback that
differentiates instruction to accommodate all learners.
APPLICATION AND INSTRUCTION: THE INTERNSHIP WITH A COOPERATING TEACHER
II.2.1: Students will implement developmentally appropriate learning activities for all learners in order
to build confidence, knowledge and skills.
II.2.2: Students will accommodate major physical, social, and personal challenges that can impede
successful learning.
II.2.3: Students will apply knowledge of learning styles, multiple intelligences, and Bloom’s Taxonomy,
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