EDU101Standards

There are ten standards for teacher certification for the state of Maine. You need to be very familiar with these standards. You will revisit them often in many of your education classes. At the end of your student teaching, you will create a portfolio that demonstrates your knowledge and understanding of these standards. You have to be able to demonstrate that you not only know the information in those standards (knowledge) but that you believe it (disposition) and can implement it (performance). That means you have to prove that you can "walk the talk" as well as "talk the talk" and "live the talk".

In this course, you are supposed to have "an exposure" to the standards. So what does that mean? Two years from now, if someone says, "Do you know about the ten standards for initial teacher certification" you can say, "Oh I remember that! We talked about that in EDU 101." You may not remember the details but you might at least remember that the standards exist and have a general recognition of the basic concept.

Often, when people are first exposed to these requirements for being a certified teacher, the standards seem overwhelming and tend to all run together...it's hard to tell one standard from another. You (and your partner if you have one) are going to help prevent that. You have been assigned a standard. It is your job to get to know that standard really well. You should understand it so well that you would be able to explain the difference between the knowledge, performance, and disposition indicators for your standard. Once you understand it well, it is your job to present it to the rest of the class in a way that we will not only know what it is, but we'll never forget it. :-)

Come up with a creative way to present the information (//do NOT make a boring PowerPoint or just stand around and talk at us!//) to give us a general overview of the standard, its narrative, knowledge indicators, performance indicators, and disposition indicators. You do not have to include all of the information that's listed on the page for your standard. Give us the highlights.

Your presentation should last at least 2 and not more than 5 minutes. If your team needs an exception to this rule, contact me at least 24 hours before the beginning of class.

Here is the booklet containing all the standards (starting on page 10).