STANDARD 6 - Instructional Delivery
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’
development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.

Knowledge Indicator: The competent teacher
6A. Understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning and how these
processes can be stimulated.
6B. Understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with
various instructional strategies.
6C. Knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials as well as human
and technological resources.
6D. Understands the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to learning and how they relate to
life and career experiences.
6E. Knows techniques for modifying instructional methods, materials, and the environment to
facilitate learning for students with disabilities and/or diverse learning characteristics.

Performance Indicators: The competent teacher
6F. Evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials
to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet student needs.
6G. Uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities
that promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance capabilities
and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources.
6H. Monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learner feedback.
6I. Varies his or her role in the instructional process as instructor, facilitator, coach, or audience in
relation to the content and purposes of instruction and the needs of students.
6J. Develops a variety of clear, accurate presentations and representations of concepts, using
alternative explanations to assist students’ understanding and presenting diverse perspectives to
encourage critical thinking.
6K. Uses a wide range of instructional technologies to enhance student learning.
6L. Develops curriculum that demonstrates an interconnection between subject areas that will reflect
life and career experiences.
6M. Uses strategies and techniques for facilitating meaningful inclusion of individuals with
disabilities.
6N. Uses technology appropriately to accomplish instructional objectives.
6O. Adapts the general curriculum and uses instructional strategies and materials according
to characteristics of the learner.
6P. Implements and evaluates individual learning objectives.