Rubrics for NCATE Standards

Candidates understand how elementary students differ in their development

K

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates have an inadequate understanding of how children differ in their development and how this is influenced by special needs, culture, and family environment

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates know and understand how children differ in their development and how this is influenced by special needs, culture, and family environment

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates know and understand how children differ in their development
  
  
• Candidates know how to seek assistance and guidance from specialists and other resources to address K-6 students’ diverse learning needs

Candidates understand how elementary students differ in their approaches to learning

K

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates are unable to demonstrate understanding of how elementary students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, disabilities, prior learning, and culture
  

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates know and understand how elementary students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, disabilities, prior learning, and culture

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates know and understand how elementary students’ learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, disabilities, prior learning, language, and culture

Candidates create instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse students

K, S, I

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates are unable to successfully design instruction appropriate for K-6 students’ levels of development, learning styles, and needs
  
  
• Candidates’ approaches to teaching are not sensitive to children’s needs
  
  

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates design instruction appropriate for K-6 students’ levels of development, learning styles, and needs
  
  
• Candidates use teaching approaches sensitive to children’s needs

Evidence indicates that:

• Candidates seek assistance and guidance from specialists and other resources to address K-6 students’ exceptional learning needs
  
  
• Candidates plan instruction tasks and activities appropriate to the needs of students who are culturally diverse or have exceptional needs
  
  
• Candidates apply their knowledge of the richness of contributions from diverse cultures to the content studied in the elementary classroom
  
  
• Candidates utilize resources of other specialists and families