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Outcome  1 – Content Knowledge ECEL 6924

SCED 4924 SCED 6924

The Professional Educator understands the ECEL 4924 PHED 6924

disciplines related to their teaching field and anchors PHED 4924 PHED 7914

content in meaningful learning experiences. ESPE 4924 PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
ESPE 4500
SCED 6000
1.1  Understands the structure of the academic disciplines related to the subject-matter content areas of instruction and of the
PHED 4030
important facts and central concepts, principles, theories, and tools of inquiry associated with these disciplines.  
ESPE 6500
SCED 4000
PHED 6020

PHED 6030
1.2  Understands how to organize and present content so that it is meaningful and engaging to all learners (pedagogical ESPE 4500 ELEM 6523
content knowledge).           
SCED 4000 ECEL/READ 6914

ELEM 3400 ECEL 7914

PHED 4030 SCED 6000

ESPE 6500
 ESPE 7914
ELEM 4100
1.3  Understands the role that mathematics plays in everyday life, concepts and relationships in number systems, appropriate
use of various types of reasoning, including inductive, deductive, spatial, and proportional, and understands valid and invalid
ESPE 4914 ELEM 6523
forms of reasoning, metric and customary measurement, and fundamental geometric concepts, including shapes and their
properties and relationships.

ELEM 4100
1.4  Solves problems using different strategies, verifies and interprets results, draws conclusions, and communicates with
ELEM 6523
others about mathematical concepts, processes, and symbols.
ESPE 4914

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Outcome 2 – Human Development SCED 4924

PHED 4924

The Professional Educator understands how people learn and develop.               ESPE 4924 ECEL 4924

2.1  Understands research and theory underpinning effective teaching and learning. FNDS 2140

READ 3300
 FNDS 2120
2.2.  Understands the physical, emotional, and social development of young people and the relationship of
ECHE 3100
these to learning readiness and to cognitive development.
ECHE 4914
FNDS 2120
2.3  Understands the impact of native language and linguistic background on learning.
READ 3300

FNDS 2140

2.4  Understands developmentally appropriate instructional and management strategies. ELEM 4100

ECHE 4914

ELEM 3400
2.5  Uses knowledge about human learning and development, including learning styles and multiple
intelligences, in the design of a learning environment and learning experiences that will optimize each ECHE 4914
student’s achievement.
FNDS 2140
2.6  Recognizes individual variations in learning and development that exceed the typical range and uses PHED 4160
this information to provide appropriate learning experiences.
 ECHE 3100

ECHE 4914

ESPE 3760
PHED 4160
2.7  Differentiates between learner difficulties that are related to cognitive or skill development and those
that are related to language learning.
READ 3300

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ECEL 6924

SCED 6924
SCED 4924
Outcome 3 – Diversity
PHED 6924
PHED 4924
PHED 7914
ESPE 4924
The Professional Educator understands how students from diverse backgrounds learn and develop.
ECEL 4924
PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
3.1  Creates a learning community in which individual differences are respected. PHED 4160 ELEM 6533

READ 3300 READ 6915

 ECEL/READ 6914
ECHE 4914
ECEL 7914
FNDS 2140
FNDS 6170
ESPE 3760
3.2  Understands the general characteristics of exceptionalities, including the range of physical and mental disabilities,
social and emotional disorders, giftedness, dyslexia, and attention deficit disorder, and of their impact on cognitive PHED 4160 ESPE 6100
development learning.

FNDS 2120
3.3  Understands the process of second language acquisition and strategies to support the learning of students whose
READ 6253/6254
first language is not English.     
ECHE 3100
ESPE 3760
3.4 Identifies and refers students to special services through the school, community, state, and other resources ESPE 6100
PHED 4160
3.5 Addresses learning differences and disabilities that are prevalent in an inclusive classroom by providing
ESPE 3760
accommodations, modifications, and/or adaptations to the general curriculum to meet the needs of each ESPE 6100
PHED 4160
individual learner.
3.6  Communicates with parents and/or families to support students’ understanding of appropriate behavior. ECHE 4914 ECHE 6403
3.7  Makes developmentally appropriate choices in selecting teaching strategies and educational resources and SCED 4000 ELEM 6523 READ
curriculum materials to assist diverse learners in meeting instructional objectives. 6915
PHED 4030
ECEL/READ 6914
ELEM 3400
ECEL 7914

SCED 6000
 PHED 6020

PHED 6030
ECHE 6423
3.8  Provides a variety of ways for students with diverse needs, including students with disabilities, to demonstrate
ELEM 4100
their learning.
FNDS 6300
PHED 4160
3.9  Understands how cultural, ethnic, gender, linguistic, and socio-economic differences, including ECHE 6423
ECHE 4914
family/community values and conditions affect learner needs, preferences, and styles and uses this information to
FNDS 2140
develop culturally responsive curriculum and instruction based upon those characteristics. FNDS 6170
READ 3300
ECHE 6423
3.10  Understands the characteristics of one’s own culture and use of language and of how they differ from other FNDS 2140
cultures and uses that knowledge to communicate in ways that demonstrate sensitivity to diversity (such as appropriate
FNDS 6170
use of eye contact, interpretation of body language and verbal statements, and acknowledgement of and
responsiveness to different modes of communication and participation).
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Outcome 4 – Planning SCED 4924 ECEL 6924

PHED 4924 SCED 6924

The Professional Educator develops plans based on knowledge of subject matter, students, community, and curriculum goals. ESPE 4924 PHED 6924
 PHED 7914

ECEL 4924 PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
ELEM 6513
ELEM 4100
4.1  Uses students' prior knowledge and experiences to introduce new subject-area related content. ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
ELEM 6523 READ
6915
ELEM 4100
4.2  Identifies student assumptions and preconceptions about the content of a subject area and adjusts instruction in
consideration of these prior understandings. ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
READ 6353
ELEM 3400
4.3  Helps students make connections across the curriculum in order to promote retention and transfer of knowledge to real-life
ECEL/READ 6914
settings.
ECEL 7914
READ 6915
4.4 Understands the content standards and the scope and sequence of the subject areas of SCED 4000
ECEL/READ 6914
one’ teaching fields as defined in the Alabama courses of study for those teaching fields PHED 4030
ECEL 7914
and use them to plan teaching and learning experiences. ELEM 4200
SCED 6000
4.5  Selects content and appropriately designs and develops instructional activities to address the scope and sequence of the SCED 4000 ELEM 6533
curriculum.
PHED 4030 READ 6915
 ECEL/READ 6914
ELEM 4100
ECEL 7914
ELEM 4200
SCED 6000
ELEM 6513

SCED 4000 SCED 6000

PHED 4030 ESPE 6500

4.6  Plans teaching and learning experiences that consider the needs, interests, and abilities of diverse students.
ELEM 4100 ESPE 7914

ESPE 4500 PHED 6020

PHED 6030

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Outcome 5 – Learning Environment SCED 4924 ECEL 6924

ECEL 4924 SCED 6924

The Professional Educator understands how to design a student-centered learning environment. PHED 4924 PHED 6924

ESPE 4924
 PHED 7914

PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
ELEM 6523

5.1  Organize, allocates, and manages the resources of time, space, and activities to support the learning and behavior of every READ 6915
READ 3300
student.      
ECEL/READ 6914
ECEL 7914
ELEM 6523

READ 6915
5.2  Uses strategies that promote the independence, self-control, personal responsibility, and self-advocacy of all students. ELEM 4100
ECEL/READ 6914
ECEL 7914

ELEM 6523

READ 6915
5.3  Encourages students to assume increasing responsibility for themselves and to support one another’s learning.
ELEM 4100
ECEL/READ 6914
ECEL 7914
5.4  Creates a print/language-rich environment that develops/extends students’ desire and ability to read, write, speak, and READ 3300 READ 6353
listen.
SCED 4050 ECEL/READ 6914
 ECEL 7914

SCED 6050
ELEM 6513

ECEL/READ 6914
FNDS 2140
ECEL 7914
5.5  Creates safe learning environments that increase intrinsic motivation and optimize student engagement and learning.
ELEM 3400
FNDS 6170

ESPE 7914
ECEL/READ 6914
5.6  Understands the components and characteristics of collaboratively designed and implemented individual behavioral ECEL 7914
ESPE 3760
support plans and uses them to proactively respond to the needs of all students.
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Outcome 6 – Instructional Strategies SCED 4924 ECEL 6924

ECEL 4924 SCED 6924

The Professional Educator understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies. PHED 4924 PHED 6924

ESPE 4924 PHED 7914

 PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
READ 6353
6.1 Stimulates interest in and fosters appreciation for the written word, promotes reading READ 3300
ECEL/READ 6914
growth, and increases the motivation of students to read by integrating oral and written communication into all content areas. ESPE 4914
 ECEL 7914
ELEM 6543

READ 6915

ECEL/READ 6914
SCED 4050
ECEL 7914
6.2  Evaluates, selects, and integrates a variety of research-based strategies that promote retention and transfer of learning, such
PHED 4030
as cooperative learning, discussion, discovery, problem-based learning, and direct instruction into a coherent lesson design.
SCED 6050
ELEM 4200
ESPE 7914

PHED 6020

PHED 6030
FNDS 2140
ECHE 6403
6.3 Helps students assess their own learning styles and designs learning experiences that engage all learning styles to build
PHED 4030
upon students’ identified strengths.
FNDS 6170
ELEM 3400
6.4  Uses a range of curricular materials and technologies to support the cognitive development of diverse learners.   SCED 4050 READ 6353

PHED 4030 ECEL/READ 6914

 ECEL 7914
ELEM 4200
SCED 6050
ECHE 6423
6.5  Teaches explicit cognitive, metacognitive, and other learning strategies to support students in becoming more successful
READ 3300 ECEL/READ 6914
learners.
ECEL 7914
READ 6253/6254
6.6  Organizes, uses, and monitors a variety of flexible student groupings and instructional strategies to support differentiated
instruction.
ELEM 3400 READ 6255
READ 3300
6.7  Understands the use of strategies associated with highly specialized, explicit instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary and comprehension that significantly expands and increases students’ pace of learning and competence in ESPE 4914 READ 6253/6254
reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

ELEM 6543

READ 6915
6.8  Uses questions and questioning to assist all students in developing skills and strategies in critical and higher order thinking
ELEM 4200
and problem solving.
ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914

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Outcome 7 – Communication SCED 4924 SCED 6924

ECEL 4924 PHED 6924

The Professional Educator uses effective communication skills. PHED 4924 PHED 7914

ESPE 4924 PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
ELEM 6533

READ 6915
7.1  Models appropriate verbal and written communication. READ 3300
ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
READ 6253/6254

READ 6915
7.2  Uses effective nonverbal communication and responds appropriately to nonverbal cues from students. ECHE 3100
ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
READ 6253/6254

READ 6915
7.3  Demonstrates appropriate communication strategies that include questioning and active and reflective listening. ELEM 4200
ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
7.4  Fosters effective verbal and nonverbal communications during ongoing instruction using assistive technologies, as Internship ESPE 7914
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ECEL 6924

SCED 4924 SCED 6924

Outcome 8 – Assessment
ECEL 4924 PHED 6924

PHED 4924 PHED 7914

The Professional Educator uses effective assessment techniques to inform practice.
ESPE 4924 PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
ECEL/READ 6914
8.1    Understands the purposes, strengths, and limitations of formative and summative assessment, performance assessment,
ESPE 4300
ECEL 7914
and informal and formalassessment strategies and designs, selects, and uses a variety of assessments to plan instruction, to
PHED 4183
FNDS 6800
monitor student understanding and progress towards learning, to modify teaching and learning strategies, and to report student
FNDS 4800
progress related to learning objectives for all content areas, including reading.
ESPE 6300
ECEL/READ 6914
8.2  Keeps accurate records including IEPs, especially records related to federal, state, and district policies, and other records
ESPE 3760 ECEL 7914
with legal implications.      
ESPE 6100
 ECEL/READ 6914
ESPE 4300
ECEL 7914
8.3  Interprets reports from assessments (including current Alabama requirements) by understanding measurement-related
FNDS 4800
issues such as validity, reliability, norms, bias, scoring concerns, and ethical uses of tests and results.             
FNDS 6800
PHED 4183
ESPE 6300
8.4    Collaborates with others to design, score, and incorporate accommodations into all
ESPE 3760 ESPE 6100
common assessments and to use results to share and compare instructional practice and plan new instruction.
8.5 Engages all students in developing rubrics and teaching students to use them in READ 3300 FNDS 6800

assessing and understanding their own learning and behavior. FNDS 4800 ESPE 7914

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ECEL 6924

SCED 4924 SCED 6924

Outcome 9 – Technology
ECEL 4924 PHED 6924

PHED 4924 PHED 7914

The Professional Educator proficient in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.
ESPE 4924 PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
 ECEL/READ 6914

ECEL 7914
9.1  Understands available and emerging technologies including classroom and school resources, distance learning and online
FNDS 4703
learning opportunities, and assistive technologies, that support and enhance learning for all students in all content areas.
FNDS 6213

ESPE 7914
9.2  Evaluates students’ technology proficiency and students’ technology-based products within content areas. FNDS 4703 FNDS 6213
9.3  Uses technology to assess student progress and manage records. Internship
ECEL/READ 6914
9.4  Practices safe, responsible, legal, and ethical use of technology and complies with school and district acceptable-use
FNDS 4703 ECEL 7914
policies, including fair-use and copyright guidelines and internet user protection policies.
FNDS 6213
9.5    Facilitates students’ individual and collaborative use of technology, including classroom resources as well as distance

 and online learning opportunities when available and appropriate, by planning and implementing equitable and effective FNDS 4703 FNDS 6213

student access to technology.

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Outcome 10 – Professionalism SCED 4924 ECEL 6924

PHED 4924 SCED 6924

The Professional Educator is a reflective practitioner who evaluates the effects of his/her choices and actions on others, and ESPE 4924
 PHED 6924

PHED 7914
seeks to grow professionally. ECEL 4924
PHED 7915

ESPE 6924
ECEL/READ 6914
10.1  Accesses resources to gain information about federal, state, district, and school policies and procedures. FNDS 2010
ECEL 7914
ECEL/READ 6914
FNDS 2010
10.2  Uses best practices, professional literature, collegial assistance, job-embedded learning, district and state-sponsored ECEL 7914
workshops, online and distance learning, and peer coaching and mentoring to improve as a teacher and learner.
ESPE 7914
READ 6253/6254
FNDS 2010
10.3  Articulates and reflects on a personal philosophy and its relationship to teaching practice and professional learning READ 6255
choices and commitment.
ECEL/READ 6914
ECEL 7914
FNDS 2010 ELEM 6523
10.4  Understands the principles of individual and organizational change and is committed to leading and supporting others in
results-oriented changes.
ECEL/READ 6914
ECEL/READ 6914
10.5  Understands conflict resolution strategies, school emergency response procedures, and laws related to student and teacher FNDS 2010 ECEL 7914
rights and responsibilities, including IDEA, Section 504, ADA, statutes on child abuse and neglect, and the importance of
complying with those laws.
PHED 6030
ECEL/READ 6914
10.6  Uses and maintains confidential student information in an ethical and professional manner. Internship
ECEL 7914
ELEM 6533
ELEM 3400
10.7  Develops a positive relationship with every student and promotes positive social relationships among students, including
students from different backgrounds and abilities. ECEL/READ 6914
ECEL 7914
10.8 Understands research relating collective responsibility for student learning to increased achievement and the purposes, ECEL/READ 6914
ESPE 3760
processes, structures, and potential benefits associated with collaboration and teaming with colleagues, students, parents, ECEL 7914
guardians, and significant agency personnel by sharing instructional responsibility for students in an expanded curriculum in
general education to include Individual Education Plans and otherplans such as Section 504 goals for students with disabilities. ESPE 6100
10.9 Understands the roles and responsibilities of different personnel and teams including, but not limited to, Building Based ECEL/READ 6914
PHED 4030
Student Support Teams, para-educators and other paraprofessionals. ECEL 7914
ESPE 3760
ESPE 6100
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10.10  Involves parents and/or families as active partners in planning and supporting student learning and communicates with ECEL/READ 6914
them about Alabama’s assessment system and major state educational improvement initiatives. ECEL 7914

FNDS 2010
10.11  Exhibits the professional dispositions, delineated in professional, state (including the Alabama Code of Ethics), and ECEL/READ 6914
institutional standards while working with students, colleagues, families, and communities. ECEL 7914

10.12  Understands current and emerging state initiatives and programs including, but not limited to, the Alabama Reading FNDS 2010
Initiative (ARI); the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI); Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX); the ECEL/READ 6914
Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide (ACCESS) and their relationship to student achievement ECEL 7914
and integrates these initiatives into the curriculum and instructional processes.