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The School Teacher Standards And The University Of Pikeville Standard

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The Kentucky Teacher Standards and the University of Pikeville Standard are guidelines that teachers should use to become efficient teachers. Through my hours observing and as a Teacher Candidate in Clinical 1, I have witnessed these standards in practice. Not only have the teachers that I have observed under participated in these standards, but I as well have tried to follow these guidelines to make my teaching style proficient.

Standard One:Demonstrates Applied Content Knowledge Standard one defines what an effective teacher needs to do to demonstrate applied content knowledge. Each indicator breaks down ways that teacher can effectively show their knowledge of the content they are teaching. Standard One’s role is to give teachers a checklist for giving their knowledge to students. Each indicator is important in their own way, yet they come together to benefit each student. Communicating means that the teacher is talking with the students about what they are going to learn, how they are going to learn, and effectively giving each student the ability to succeed in learning the knowledge that is prepared to be given. The processes could be a schedule of when each subject will be taught, such as a syllabus. Communicating the concepts could be talking with each students about the learning targets, or “I can” statements. My cooperating teacher has her “I can” statements posted where all of her students can see them. She discusses them through the week when we

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