INTASC Standards
Principle #8: The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner.
AYA Standard
Standard #5: Instructional Strategies
The teacher of adolescents and young adults understands the teaching/learning research base and employs a variety of instructional strategies, resources, and technologies which advance the learner into high level thinking skills.
EAG Standard(s)
Standard #1: Young Adolescent Development
The early adolescence generalist understands the range of developmental characteristics of early adolescence within social, cultural, and societal contexts and uses this knowledge to facilitate student learning.Standard #4: Middle School Curriculum
The early adolescence generalist understands and can implement the established middle school curriculum.Standard #5: Middle School Instruction
The early adolescence generalist understands the breadth of instructional options available to the middle school teacher and the research base that underlies these options and employs a variety of instructional strategies which are developmentally appropriate for the varying learning abilities and styles of young adolescents.