Highly effective literacy teachers of monolingual and multilingual students…
- Recognize major historical and contemporary theories and empirical research that describe the cognitive, linguistic, motivational, developmental and sociocultural foundations of reading and writing development, processes, and components,
- Demonstrate the role of professional judgment in order to use foundational and historically shared knowledge to design or implement an integrated, comprehensive, and balanced literacy curriculum.
- Create a literate environment that fosters reading and writing by integrating foundational knowledge, instructional practices, approaches and methods, authentic literature, curriculum materials, and the appropriate use of assessments.
- Employ a wide range of texts (e.g., narrative, expository, and poetry) from traditional print, digital, and online resources for a wide range of teaching and learning purposes and students’ needs.
- Utilize a variety of assessment information to plan and evaluate instruction
- Teach English literacy by harnessing students’ primary language knowledge base to enable them to develop competency in the English language arts and to develop understanding of content across the curriculum.
- Integrate tools of technology in literacy settings to gather, synthesize, and critically evaluate information and to create and communicate knowledge.
- Display positive dispositions related to their own reading and writing and the teaching of reading and writing, and pursue the development of individual professional knowledge and behaviors.
- Design, facilitate, lead, and evaluate effective and differentiated literacy programs for students and professional development programs.
- Investigate questions, examine assumptions and beliefs, collect and analyze data to improve teaching and students’ learning.
- Recognize and influence local, state, or national policy decisions.
- Create and implement strategies to advocate for equity, excellence and social justice for all students.
