Introduction
The effective teacher focuses on students’ long-term development into responsible and independent learners. Effective students acquire the basic skills and dispositions necessary to achieve autonomy, literacy, responsibility to self and other, and lifelong learning. The ultimate goal is for students to become positive, confident, competent, caring learners who demonstrate initiative, solve problems, set goals, and make decisions that help them to function successfully in a rapidly changing technological society. The educational system must develop citizens who can govern themselves and have a global perspective. The citizens must be flexible, resourceful and able to deal with open-endedness, complexity, information explosion and accelerated growth in technologies, while maintaining a set of values, individual stability and integrity.
The general outcomes of public education in Hawaii sought for all learners include the following general skills and dispositions:
- Being responsible for one's own learning
- Working with others
- Using complex thinking and problem-solving
- Recognizing and generating quality performance and quality products
Standards
Standard 1: Focuses on the Learner
Standard 2: Creates and maintains a safe and positive learning environment
Standard 3: Adapts to learner diversity
Standard 4: Fosters effective communication in the learning environment
Standard 5: Demonstrates knowledge of content
Standard 6: Designs and provides meaningful learning experiences
Standard 7: Uses active learning strategies
Standard 8: Uses assessment strategies
Standard 9: Demonstrates professionalism
Standard 10: Fosters parent and school community relationships
Code of Ethics
Click on any of the above standards to read the criteria for that standard.